Job summary
Are you someone who feels passionately that transformational change in health service provision for children and young people can only take place in partnership, with children and young people front and centre of the decision any making?
Have you led complex programmes of work that have led to positive outcomes?
If this is you, then the South Yorkshire Children and Young People's Alliance team would love you to apply for this exciting new job opportunity and join us to work alongside our partners to reduce health inequalities and create sustainable change that ensure South Yorkshires children and young people can reach their goals and ambitions, living healthier, happy lives.
Main duties of the job
You will hold the responsibility for working across organisations to lead the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan commitments and support the implementation of South Yorkshire Strategic Plans for children and young people and deputise for the Programme Director as required.
The programme of work is dynamic in nature. Specific programme activities will emerge and change as the programme develops.
About us
At Sheffield Children's, our purpose is clear: to provide healthier futures for children and young people. Our three strategic aims are:
- Outstanding Patient Care
- Brilliant Place to work
- Leaders in Children's Health
We work successfully with local, regional, and national partners to provide physical and mental healthcare across acute and community settings. Many of our clinicians are amongst the best in their field, recognised nationally and internationally for their expertise.
As well as having enormous pride in what we do, we are a friendly, welcoming, and motivated NHS Trust who are guided by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our nearly 4000 colleagues live these values, ensuring kind and compassionate care that makes patients and their families feel safe and at home.
As we approach our 150th anniversary in 2026, we remain committed to enhancing our reputation in children's health leadership, improving the experiences of both patient and colleagues, and focusing on our communities and population health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for full details of the role
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.netWe are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for full details of the role
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.netWe are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Graduate of the Sheffield MCA programme or other qualification in Service/Quality Improvement or equivalent experience
- Evidence of CPD
- Project/Programme Management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, MSP or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience using and coaching quality improvement methods
- Experience of successfully leading large or complex improvement projects and programmes
- Expert knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management in a NHS context
- Programme or complex project management experience
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of programme/ project budget setting, holding a delegated budget prior to hand-over to operational function.
- Proven experience in a complex organisation working on projects that involve operational change
- Demonstrable experience of making significant judgements involving highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis and interpretation from a range of options
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Experience of working and influencing senior teams
- Experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries
- Experience and confidence to represent the programme at local, national and international level
- Experience of line managing staff
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS, Interpreting national policy for implementation.
- Knowledge of change and transformational programmes.
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to work with and build relationships with local, regional and national organisations
- Highly developed influencing skills with the ability to present to and engage a wide range of stakeholders in ideas and proposals
- Highly developed analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Excellent performance management skills
- Able to work at a strategic and operational level on own initiative
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Graduate of the Sheffield MCA programme or other qualification in Service/Quality Improvement or equivalent experience
- Evidence of CPD
- Project/Programme Management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, MSP or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience using and coaching quality improvement methods
- Experience of successfully leading large or complex improvement projects and programmes
- Expert knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management in a NHS context
- Programme or complex project management experience
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of programme/ project budget setting, holding a delegated budget prior to hand-over to operational function.
- Proven experience in a complex organisation working on projects that involve operational change
- Demonstrable experience of making significant judgements involving highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis and interpretation from a range of options
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Experience of working and influencing senior teams
- Experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries
- Experience and confidence to represent the programme at local, national and international level
- Experience of line managing staff
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS, Interpreting national policy for implementation.
- Knowledge of change and transformational programmes.
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to work with and build relationships with local, regional and national organisations
- Highly developed influencing skills with the ability to present to and engage a wide range of stakeholders in ideas and proposals
- Highly developed analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Excellent performance management skills
- Able to work at a strategic and operational level on own initiative
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
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).
