Transformation Lead

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 04 December 2024

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and focussed Transformation Lead to cover our permanent post holder who is on secondment for 10 months. This would be an ideal opportunity for someone who is interested in leading service improvement projects at network level. The Thames Valley and Wessex CYP Operational Delivery Network includes six networks and you would be expected to support all of them, working on specific projects and work programmes. Please note this is a working from home job, travel within Thames Valley and Wessex is expected.

Interviews will take place on the 11th September at Premier House in Reading

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the ODN by:

  • training, coaching and supporting employees in improvement methods

  • running improvement projects

  • supporting Lead Nurses with large scale change programmes

  • providing colleagues with support and tools required to lead improvement projects

  • analysing data and networking with diverse stakeholders, to produce compelling arguments for change

  • communicating with a varied mixture of stakeholders from "Ward to Board" - providers, ICBs and regional colleagues

  • Keep in touch with colleagues across other networks, identifying best practice and projects that could be transferred to TVW

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Date posted

21 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

321-NOTSS-6474109-B7-A

Job locations

Home working

Home working

Home working

OX3 9DU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Infrastructure and Capability Building:

  • Engage with staff on all levels to help them understand the goals of the network and how it will impact their clinical / working practices

  • Work with clinical and non-clinical staff to identify, plan and deliver improvement projects

  • Provide structured and on the job training in the use of improvement tools and techniques and project management

  • Share good practice on quality schemes across the network

  • Horizon scanning for upcoming quality improvement projects staying informed with GIRFT and national programmes of care.

  • Work with teams to support service improvement using improvement concepts and appropriate tools

  • Produce benchmarking and best practice case studies to support the delivery and communication of the ODN workplan

  • Act as the network expert in running quality service reviews, maintaining document templates and supporting Lead Nurses to run the review.

Project Management:

  • Develop and maintain document templates for use by Lead Nurses

  • Responsible and accountable for identifying the need for change control and any configuration management issues at project level

  • Undertakes status review meetings among key stakeholders and team members

  • Produce progress reports on the projects ongoing across the CYP ODNs detailing the progress against plan, next steps, and raising issues and risks, with mitigating actions and potential implications

  • Utilise MS planner and MS project to support ODN teams to manage projects

Organisational Fit and Culture:

  • Have a flexible approach to supporting teams across all six networks

  • Build effective and supportive relationships with key stakeholders to break down barriers and facilitate change

  • Support the Lead Nurses to drive a culture of continuous improvement

  • Work collaboratively with our internal and external partners to involve them in continuous improvement and improve the patient experience

  • Work across the full network footprint to share learning, reporting to specialty and CYP boards as required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Infrastructure and Capability Building:

  • Engage with staff on all levels to help them understand the goals of the network and how it will impact their clinical / working practices

  • Work with clinical and non-clinical staff to identify, plan and deliver improvement projects

  • Provide structured and on the job training in the use of improvement tools and techniques and project management

  • Share good practice on quality schemes across the network

  • Horizon scanning for upcoming quality improvement projects staying informed with GIRFT and national programmes of care.

  • Work with teams to support service improvement using improvement concepts and appropriate tools

  • Produce benchmarking and best practice case studies to support the delivery and communication of the ODN workplan

  • Act as the network expert in running quality service reviews, maintaining document templates and supporting Lead Nurses to run the review.

Project Management:

  • Develop and maintain document templates for use by Lead Nurses

  • Responsible and accountable for identifying the need for change control and any configuration management issues at project level

  • Undertakes status review meetings among key stakeholders and team members

  • Produce progress reports on the projects ongoing across the CYP ODNs detailing the progress against plan, next steps, and raising issues and risks, with mitigating actions and potential implications

  • Utilise MS planner and MS project to support ODN teams to manage projects

Organisational Fit and Culture:

  • Have a flexible approach to supporting teams across all six networks

  • Build effective and supportive relationships with key stakeholders to break down barriers and facilitate change

  • Support the Lead Nurses to drive a culture of continuous improvement

  • Work collaboratively with our internal and external partners to involve them in continuous improvement and improve the patient experience

  • Work across the full network footprint to share learning, reporting to specialty and CYP boards as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oEducated to degree level or equivalent experience in a role
  • oQualification in Service or Quality Improvement techniques or relevant experience
  • oEvidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • oProject management training

Desirable

  • oFacilitation training

Experience

Essential

  • oExperience of working with organisations or teams to identify and realise improvement benefits
  • oTraining, coaching and supporting improvement tools & techniques
  • oExperience of monitoring and tracking multiple projects
  • oOrganising workshops
  • oProject management experience
  • oExperience of carrying out benchmarking to aid decisions
  • oWorking with multiple stakeholders to deliver projects and change at a team, service or directorate level
  • oWorking with clinical and non-clinical staff including senior stakeholders

Desirable

  • oExperience of working as part of a project team to deliver new models of care
  • oExperience of working across multiple organisations to deliver change
  • oExperience of coaching staff to deliver projects or changes

Personal Skills

Essential

  • oUnderstanding of the pressures facing the NHS
  • oAble to extract, analyse and present information - qualitative and quantitative.
  • oExcellent verbal and written communication skills
  • oLeadership, influencing and team skills
  • oAccuracy and attention to detail
  • oAbility to work under pressure to set and ensure strict timetables are met

Technical skills

Desirable

  • oExcellent up to date IT skills including the use of Microsoft Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Planner, Social Media for educational purposes & other web based systems
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oEducated to degree level or equivalent experience in a role
  • oQualification in Service or Quality Improvement techniques or relevant experience
  • oEvidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • oProject management training

Desirable

  • oFacilitation training

Experience

Essential

  • oExperience of working with organisations or teams to identify and realise improvement benefits
  • oTraining, coaching and supporting improvement tools & techniques
  • oExperience of monitoring and tracking multiple projects
  • oOrganising workshops
  • oProject management experience
  • oExperience of carrying out benchmarking to aid decisions
  • oWorking with multiple stakeholders to deliver projects and change at a team, service or directorate level
  • oWorking with clinical and non-clinical staff including senior stakeholders

Desirable

  • oExperience of working as part of a project team to deliver new models of care
  • oExperience of working across multiple organisations to deliver change
  • oExperience of coaching staff to deliver projects or changes

Personal Skills

Essential

  • oUnderstanding of the pressures facing the NHS
  • oAble to extract, analyse and present information - qualitative and quantitative.
  • oExcellent verbal and written communication skills
  • oLeadership, influencing and team skills
  • oAccuracy and attention to detail
  • oAbility to work under pressure to set and ensure strict timetables are met

Technical skills

Desirable

  • oExcellent up to date IT skills including the use of Microsoft Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Planner, Social Media for educational purposes & other web based systems

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Home working

Home working

Home working

OX3 9DU


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Home working

Home working

Home working

OX3 9DU


Employer's website

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


For questions about the job, contact:

Head of CYP Operational Delivery Networks

Emma Bennett

emma.bennett@ouh.nhs.uk

Date posted

21 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

321-NOTSS-6474109-B7-A

Job locations

Home working

Home working

Home working

OX3 9DU


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