Corporate Planning Manager (XN09)

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work at senior management level alongside Clinical Directors and Assistant Directors of Operations and to make a visible contribution to the business success of CSUs. To provide strategic planning support to Clinical Service Units. According to the level of development of the CSU, this may take the form of facilitation or require a stronger steer on the process to deliver plans, business cases and strategic projects. To work with the Director of Planning to deliver Trustwide complex strategic projects often involving a high degree of uncertainty.

This corporate planning manager post will focus on the development of clinical estate across the organisation, along with demand and capacity modelling, delivering on the strategic aims of the estates strategy and supporting our staff to deliver the nest care for patients. They will usually be handling a number of projects at any one time which might include supporting Executive Directors in Corporate Functions and also providing the lead on at least one cross Trust strategic project. Corporate Planning Managers will work as a team, providing vertical and horizontal integration of all planning across the Trust and the wider healthcare community.

Corporate Planning Managers will have the ability and experience to overcome barriers to acceptance often in situations where they will encounter and have to overcome resistance. They will be excellent communicators at all levels, have an inclusive approach and display advanced negotiation and facilitation skills. Knowledge of and skills in working with change management techniques, team working and strong organisational skills are essential.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

To work with senior CSU representatives and corporate functions to develop and deliver long term strategic plans, often impacting across the Trust and often requiring external commissioner involvement.

To embed the Trustwide Strategic Planning Framework within CSUs

To drive down the organisation the need to focus on top Trust priorities and performance improvement, in particular to facilitate each service in undertaking analysis work to ensure fact based service planning such as demand and capacity modelling. To take a constructively challenging attitude which will lead to the strengthening of the evidence base.

To work with internal and external colleagues to promote and drive modernisation as an essential pre requisite of the planning of clinical services and to continually question the status quo

To provide the professional lead on business planning in each CSU and to ensure that business cases for development/service change are of the highest standard, in the correct format and seek approvals as relevant to the case requirements.

To take a co-ordinating role within each CSU in order to bring together the work of the corporate functions finance/HR/planning so resulting in joined up thinking

To take the lead and drive business base development, often in excess of £1 million; to sponsor all clinical and non-clinical building and engineering schemes and to tightly monitor progress to time and cost on behalf of the CSU, liaising directly with the CSU General Manager on a regular basis.

To work with each CSU to develop cases of need for complex medical and scientific equipment and for IT systems

To attend CSU management meetings and also performance reviews along with the core CSU and to give strategic planning advice to the Directors of Operations

To work across CSUs and operational directorates to ensure vertical and horizontal linkages are developed and sustained

To maintain a thorough understanding of Trust and NHS strategy and ensure that all projects account for this.

Person Specification

Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• A theoretical and practical knowledge of NHS planning systems and frameworks, underpinned by significant relevant experience, to a degree which enables the postholder to influence organisational policy
• Experience/knowledge of project management and managing major service changes
• Understanding and knowledge of a range of clinical specialties. Work autonomously with the ability to plan and organise, to plan own time to maximum effect and to delegate responsibility and authority
• Apply a high degree of knowledge and experience in the interpretation of national and local policy, using it to manage conflict, uncertainty and variation between policy and local circumstances.
• Work in partnership across boundaries with staff, patient and user groups.

Desirable

• Change Management theory

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent management qualification

Desirable

• Managerial qualification to masters or equivalent level of experience

Experience

Essential

• Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS with understanding of current changes and developments and particular understanding of acute health services.
• A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy and its application/consequences in the Trusts environment.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge across multiple disciplines e.g. clinical services, clinical support services, business functions.

Desirable

• Experience of working within an acute trust
• Delivery of demand and capacity modelling

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)