Band 8C Head of Planning

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. ANNUAL PLANNING

To be responsible for the production of the trusts annual plan, ensuring that North Central London Integrated Care System and NHS England guidance is followed, including the management through the Trust governance process

To manage the relationship with the Finance and People teams as well as other Corporate Departments to develop the specific annual planning requirements

To work with the Health Units to develop the individual Health Unit plans as well as as the overarching organisational plan

To provide the market intelligence and analysis function at corporate and service line levels, such as Model Hospital, developing it further so as to support the planning requirements of the organisation and to support benchmarking.

To undertake the annual process of corporate objective setting in the context of the boards strategy and governing objectives.

To work with the communications department in expressing the boards plans for internal and external communications.

Working especially with clinical directors and their teams to lead on service line planning for clinical services (and for some other entities) as prioritised by the trust executive, ensuring excellent co-ordination with related service and development programmes.

To contribute to external relationships, especially with other providers in service line planning and with the health economy in long range planning, including solely representing the trust at those external meetings.

To identify the need for and manage external advisers, including agreeing according to the trusts rules and guidelines their contracts and fees.

To set and control the budget for the planning department, and to be responsible for financial performance against targets

Direct line management, including responsibility for sickness, disciplinary, recruitment etc.

2. STRATEGIC PLANNING

To support the development of the internal business case process

To support the management of the internal business case process, including the Business Case Advisory Panel

Person Specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to postgraduate degree level (or equivalent experience)
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with external advisers

Desirable

• Experience of managing a planning process
• Experience of working in or with NHS organisations

Skills and aptitudes

Essential

• Demonstrably numerate, including a working appreciation of statistics
• Demonstrably familiar with, and able to interpret, financial information
• Top quality written work in terms of clarity, accuracy and tone
• Ability to establish effective relationships with senior doctors academics, accountants, workforce and information specialist s
• Ability to brief top executives concisely and accurately
• Detailed understanding of NHS and key policy issues
• Developed IT skills

Personal Qualities & attributes

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure to meet executives' demands
• Ability to work flexibly in a dynamic environment
• Diplomatic style
• Attention to detail

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Roy Shaw House

London

NW3 2ND

Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)