Job summary
This role is a permanent opportunity within the Corporate Strategy Team.
We are looking for a values-led, compassionate and capable senior lead, with a demonstrable understanding and experience of planning as well as the ability to deliver high quality, robust programmes, drive delivery and manage internal and external relationships at all organisational levels.
This post is a Trust wide role based in the Corporate Directorate within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) and will support the delivery of the Trust's key priorities and objectives. Supporting the Executive, Divisional and Corporate departmental leads, the postholder will be instrumental in driving forward the key strategic programmes across the Trust.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected to:
- Lead the development and delivery of the Strategy and Planning function's priorities and the supporting programmes/ projects
- Establish systems and processes to ensure the robust management and oversight of all the Trust's Strategic priorities
- Lead the end to end planning processes in partnership with divisional and corporate leads including workforce and finance
- Manage a central strategy and delivery team and hold accountability for other supporting staff
The postholder will need to be able to hold complex programmes, drive delivery at a senior level and delegate work to wider team members to enable successful implementation as required. The post will be expected to show clear leadership, reporting to senior leads within and external to the Trusts on high profile work programmes and work streams
About us
Our Vision
Wellbeing for life: We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual's quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support.
Our Values
- Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
- Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
- Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
- Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities include:
Strategy and Planning
- Lead the planning and delivery function for the central team including the development of key planning and strategy documents; business cases and key proposals
- Working closely with the Divisional Transformation teams to horizon scan and identify both risks and opportunities for the Trust. This includes key partnership opportunities which align with the Trusts values and objectives
- Lead the end to end planning processes in partnership with divisional and corporate leads including workforce and finance
- Develop and manage key external stakeholder relationships across Integrated Care Systems and Place based Partnerships
- Lead a team of strategy, transformation and project managers and other leads through direct or matrix management arrangements
- To explore opportunities for providing solutions to strategic and planning priorities
- Establish and manage the reporting structures to ensure SRO and Executive oversight
- Service Improvement, Service Redesign and Transformation
- Working with the Chief Strategy Officer, the Director of Strategy and Integration and Divisional Transformation teams to lead the identification and prioritisation of key programmes to meet the Trusts strategic objectives
- Drive forward codesign and meaningful co-production as part of transformation
- Enable delivery within Integrated Care Partnerships and Integrated Care Systems, supporting development at neighbourhood, place and system level
- Support the development of emerging partnership structures including Collaboratives
- Establish systems and process to ensure the robust management and delivery of key strategic and Trusts wide programmes
- Establish reporting arrangements to ensure that the Executive Board has oversight of progress and the escalation and mitigation of risks and issues
- Lead, direct and support planning, project and delivery managers and wider clinical/ operation staff in the delivery of Transformation priorities
- Manage external consultant support that may be needed for specific projects
- Identify Service Redesign and Transformation projects to achieve operating, performance and savings targets
- Lead on complex change management programmes, working across service areas with clinical teams and managers to improve delivery of services and outcomes for service users.
- Ensure that changes to ways of working are undertaken with identified stakeholders including commissioners, within the context of the health economy
- Contribute to the development of a culture within the Directorate of continuous service improvement
- Project and Programme Management
- Lead and oversee the delivery of projects, programmes and major initiatives to achieve beneficial change in line with the strategic objectives of the Trust
- Ensure the planning and implementation of projects are in line with agreed project management processes and standards, within the defined quality, time and cost constraints across a wide area of clinical and non-clinical services
- Ensure high level monitoring and reporting of all aspects of project/ programmes across the Strategy portfolio
- Lead the design, development and implementation of a programme of training and staff development to improve project management capability
- Budgetary Responsibility
- To ensure own budgets are controlled and managed in accordance with Trust policy.
- Managerial Responsibility
- To provide leadership to a team of strategy, transformation and project managers within the Directorate and provide effective supervision and performance management that is positive and enabling to all staff
- To manage staff to ensure project deliverables are achieved to agreed time, quality and budget.
- To manage external support that may be required for specific projects
- To be able to work in a leadership role and make decisions to meet tight and often changing timescales
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Responsibilities include:
Strategy and Planning
- Lead the planning and delivery function for the central team including the development of key planning and strategy documents; business cases and key proposals
- Working closely with the Divisional Transformation teams to horizon scan and identify both risks and opportunities for the Trust. This includes key partnership opportunities which align with the Trusts values and objectives
- Lead the end to end planning processes in partnership with divisional and corporate leads including workforce and finance
- Develop and manage key external stakeholder relationships across Integrated Care Systems and Place based Partnerships
- Lead a team of strategy, transformation and project managers and other leads through direct or matrix management arrangements
- To explore opportunities for providing solutions to strategic and planning priorities
- Establish and manage the reporting structures to ensure SRO and Executive oversight
- Service Improvement, Service Redesign and Transformation
- Working with the Chief Strategy Officer, the Director of Strategy and Integration and Divisional Transformation teams to lead the identification and prioritisation of key programmes to meet the Trusts strategic objectives
- Drive forward codesign and meaningful co-production as part of transformation
- Enable delivery within Integrated Care Partnerships and Integrated Care Systems, supporting development at neighbourhood, place and system level
- Support the development of emerging partnership structures including Collaboratives
- Establish systems and process to ensure the robust management and delivery of key strategic and Trusts wide programmes
- Establish reporting arrangements to ensure that the Executive Board has oversight of progress and the escalation and mitigation of risks and issues
- Lead, direct and support planning, project and delivery managers and wider clinical/ operation staff in the delivery of Transformation priorities
- Manage external consultant support that may be needed for specific projects
- Identify Service Redesign and Transformation projects to achieve operating, performance and savings targets
- Lead on complex change management programmes, working across service areas with clinical teams and managers to improve delivery of services and outcomes for service users.
- Ensure that changes to ways of working are undertaken with identified stakeholders including commissioners, within the context of the health economy
- Contribute to the development of a culture within the Directorate of continuous service improvement
- Project and Programme Management
- Lead and oversee the delivery of projects, programmes and major initiatives to achieve beneficial change in line with the strategic objectives of the Trust
- Ensure the planning and implementation of projects are in line with agreed project management processes and standards, within the defined quality, time and cost constraints across a wide area of clinical and non-clinical services
- Ensure high level monitoring and reporting of all aspects of project/ programmes across the Strategy portfolio
- Lead the design, development and implementation of a programme of training and staff development to improve project management capability
- Budgetary Responsibility
- To ensure own budgets are controlled and managed in accordance with Trust policy.
- Managerial Responsibility
- To provide leadership to a team of strategy, transformation and project managers within the Directorate and provide effective supervision and performance management that is positive and enabling to all staff
- To manage staff to ensure project deliverables are achieved to agreed time, quality and budget.
- To manage external support that may be required for specific projects
- To be able to work in a leadership role and make decisions to meet tight and often changing timescales
Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
Essential
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Masters or Post Graduate degree in management or equivalent years of demonstrable experience in a relevant programme management role
- Programme Management Experience or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working a senior management role within a business and/or project environment or substantial experience if no masters or equivalent.
- Relevant NHS experience or similar environment at a Senior level.
- Experience of a leadership role managing and motivating a team
- Experience of change management
- Experience of working with stakeholders and in partnerships at a senior level
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of programme and project management
- Knowledge of business case development
- Previously responsibility for a budget, involved in budget setting and have a working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical services
Key Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to mentor, team build and prioritise
Personal disposition
Essential
- Ability to travel across the geographical area served by CNWL
Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
Essential
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Masters or Post Graduate degree in management or equivalent years of demonstrable experience in a relevant programme management role
- Programme Management Experience or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working a senior management role within a business and/or project environment or substantial experience if no masters or equivalent.
- Relevant NHS experience or similar environment at a Senior level.
- Experience of a leadership role managing and motivating a team
- Experience of change management
- Experience of working with stakeholders and in partnerships at a senior level
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of programme and project management
- Knowledge of business case development
- Previously responsibility for a budget, involved in budget setting and have a working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical services
Key Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to mentor, team build and prioritise
Personal disposition
Essential
- Ability to travel across the geographical area served by CNWL
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).
