Job summary
About the Role
This is an exciting and rare opportunity for an experienced and dynamic leader to join Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust asStrategy and Partnerships Director.
This is a pivotal role within the organisation, responsible for shaping and delivering strategic initiatives that will define the future of healthcare across our region.
As part of the Strategy Directorate, you will lead on the development and implementation of key organisational strategies, including our first Clinical Strategy -Care 2035 - and the renewal of our Corporate Strategy. You will also drive forward our approach to partnerships, sustainability, and commercial development, ensuring these priorities are embedded across the Trust.
About You
We are looking for a senior leader with:
- Significant management experiencein a senior role reporting to Board level.
- Expert knowledge and experienceof strategic development and planning within a complex operating environment.
- Stronginfluencing and negotiating skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across organisational boundaries.
- A proven track record ofdelivering strategic initiatives and managing change effectively.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the development and delivery of organisational strategy, including overseeing major strategic initiatives, includingCare 2035and refreshing our Corporate Strategy.
- Lead the organisation's business planning processes, including development the Trust's annual business plan
- Shape and strengthen partnerships across South Yorkshire and beyond.
- Drive sustainability initiatives aligned to our strategic objective toCreate a Sustainable Organisation.
- Support the Chief Strategy Officer in ensuring organisational viability and excellence.
- Act as Deputy for the Chief Strategy Officer when required.
- Manage the Directorate budget and ensure delivery of agreed commercial targets.
About us
Why Join Us?
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of the UK's largest and most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare delivery, working alongside senior leaders and key partners to deliver innovative solutions that make a real difference to patients and communities.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of twelve months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.
Please note all existing NHS staff will only be considered on a secondment basis. This must first be agreed with your substantive line manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the role and its main responsibilities, please see the accompanying job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the role and its main responsibilities, please see the accompanying job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree qualification
- Educated to Master's level in a relevant discipline or with extensive, directly relevant experience.
- Evidence of ongoing personal development, particularly in leadership.
Other Factors
Essential
- Flexibility with working hours.
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior management experience gained within a large and complex healthcare organisation
- Significant senior experience of working in partnership and how to progress meaningful change through partnerships
- Expert knowledge and experience of strategic development and planning within a large and complex operating environment.
- Delivery of complex change within challenging circumstances.
- Track record of leading innovation and change to support the delivery of patient centred services across organisational boundaries
- Experience of managing budgets within a complex financial regimen and delivery, especially in constrained financial circumstances.
- Significant Capital Planning experience in managing strategic and complex projects across a range of different services.
- Experience of leading, preparing and writing business cases for major developments and their delivery
- Sound understanding of the wider NHS policy agenda and demonstrable ability to translate national and local policy into action
- Evidence of contribution to a wider corporate agenda.
- Experience of peer review or accreditation processes for services.
- Experience of managing the HR environment of a multi-disciplinary workforce, application of organisational policies, wider employment law and practice.
Special Skills / Aptitudes
Essential
- Highly developed leadership and communication skills
- Team player able to work across complex, multi-disciplinary matrix arrangements.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, emotional and social intelligence.
- Ability to manage complex change within Directorates and at the interface with other Directorates and organisations.
- Commitment to NHS values and their delivery.
- Highly effective and credible personal delivery, both oral and written.
- Personal resilience.
- Credibility in a complex clinical environment.
- Political astuteness.
- Ability to coach others to succeed and deliver.
- Excellent communication skills- able to put compelling propositions together and to communicate and present complex information on a formal and informal basis to large groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree qualification
- Educated to Master's level in a relevant discipline or with extensive, directly relevant experience.
- Evidence of ongoing personal development, particularly in leadership.
Other Factors
Essential
- Flexibility with working hours.
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior management experience gained within a large and complex healthcare organisation
- Significant senior experience of working in partnership and how to progress meaningful change through partnerships
- Expert knowledge and experience of strategic development and planning within a large and complex operating environment.
- Delivery of complex change within challenging circumstances.
- Track record of leading innovation and change to support the delivery of patient centred services across organisational boundaries
- Experience of managing budgets within a complex financial regimen and delivery, especially in constrained financial circumstances.
- Significant Capital Planning experience in managing strategic and complex projects across a range of different services.
- Experience of leading, preparing and writing business cases for major developments and their delivery
- Sound understanding of the wider NHS policy agenda and demonstrable ability to translate national and local policy into action
- Evidence of contribution to a wider corporate agenda.
- Experience of peer review or accreditation processes for services.
- Experience of managing the HR environment of a multi-disciplinary workforce, application of organisational policies, wider employment law and practice.
Special Skills / Aptitudes
Essential
- Highly developed leadership and communication skills
- Team player able to work across complex, multi-disciplinary matrix arrangements.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, emotional and social intelligence.
- Ability to manage complex change within Directorates and at the interface with other Directorates and organisations.
- Commitment to NHS values and their delivery.
- Highly effective and credible personal delivery, both oral and written.
- Personal resilience.
- Credibility in a complex clinical environment.
- Political astuteness.
- Ability to coach others to succeed and deliver.
- Excellent communication skills- able to put compelling propositions together and to communicate and present complex information on a formal and informal basis to large groups.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
