Job summary
This is an exciting time for the Trust within the context of a changing system landscape and develops new partnerships across our local Integrated Care System and beyond. The Trust recently published our Clinical Strategy and the Director of Strategy and Partnerships will have responsibility for the delivery of the plans.
This role is also responsible for overseeing out interface with primary care within this context and for overall leadership, direction and support of our Trust-wide Health Inequalities programme to identify and take systematic action to reduce inequalities of access, outcome and experience across our service.
The post-holder will manage a high-performing cross-functional team of strategy and clinical colleagues (across public health and primary care roles). They will be expected to present at Trust Board where appropriate and to deputise for the Chief Digital and Partnerships Officer when required.
Main duties of the job
This role is responsible for providing senior leadership for OUH strategy, and strategic engagement with the wider system, through partnerships within Oxfordshire, Thames Valley and more widely. The role heads up a high performing cross functional team who are responsible for:
- Leading on all aspects of Trust-wide Strategy development
- Providing strategic guidance and expertise across OUH
- System strategy engagement
- Strengthening our capacity in partnership working
- Leadership of Health Inequalities Programme
- Promoting Environmental Sustainability
- Partnerships
- Team Leadership and Development
- Corporate senior leadership role
About us
General Conditions
Risk Management
The management of risk is the responsibility of everyone and will be achieved within a progressive, honest and open environment.
Staff will be provided with the necessary education, training and support to enable them to meet this responsibility.
Staff should be familiar with the
- Major Incident Policy
- Fire Policy
- Information governance
and should make themselves familiar with the 'local response' plan and their role within that response.
Responsibilities for Health and Safety
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that all duties and responsibilities of this post are carried out in compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, Statutory Regulations and Trust Policies and Procedures. This will be supported by the provision of training and specialist advice where required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification. Any relevant information can be located within these documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification. Any relevant information can be located within these documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in strategy, policy or management - or equivalent experience in relevant senior roles
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in senior leadership roles in health and social care
- Experience of developing strategies and plans
- Experience of leading and managing small teams
- Experience of coordinating large-scale programmes in complex systems and organisations
- Experience of delivering service change in partnership with clinicians and managers
- Experience of working in or closely with an acute Trust and/or an Integrated Care System.
Personal
Essential
- A strong leader, able to command credibility with senior leaders across OUH and the wider system
- Able to build collaborative and trusting long-term relationships with senior leaders across organisational boundaries.
- Confident in providing high challenge and high support to clinicians and managers to develop services and care for patients
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to navigate complexity to get things done
- Able to balance competing priorities, organise fast moving and wide-ranging portfolio of work
- Strong influencing skills, able to make things happen with limited direct levers for change
- Analytically minded, comfortable with using data to generate insight and commissioning analysis from specialists
Technical
Essential
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate qualification in strategy, policy or management - or equivalent experience in relevant senior roles
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in senior leadership roles in health and social care
- Experience of developing strategies and plans
- Experience of leading and managing small teams
- Experience of coordinating large-scale programmes in complex systems and organisations
- Experience of delivering service change in partnership with clinicians and managers
- Experience of working in or closely with an acute Trust and/or an Integrated Care System.
Personal
Essential
- A strong leader, able to command credibility with senior leaders across OUH and the wider system
- Able to build collaborative and trusting long-term relationships with senior leaders across organisational boundaries.
- Confident in providing high challenge and high support to clinicians and managers to develop services and care for patients
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to navigate complexity to get things done
- Able to balance competing priorities, organise fast moving and wide-ranging portfolio of work
- Strong influencing skills, able to make things happen with limited direct levers for change
- Analytically minded, comfortable with using data to generate insight and commissioning analysis from specialists
Technical
Essential
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
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).
