Benefits Realisation Manager

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new and unique challenge? Our finance team at ESNEFT are seeking someone with a business, finance, project management or related background to become our Benefits Realisation Manager.

As a Benefits Realisation Manager, you will lead on assisting the Trust in enabling the delivery and tracking of financial and non-financial benefits associated with key strategic programmes and initiatives. You will work closely with all key stakeholders across the Trust and the wider Integrated Care System, to support the identification, management, tracking, and delivery of all associated benefits.

You will be responsible for the development of a robust Benefits Framework and all aspects of benefits realisation planning and reporting including:

Working with stakeholders to identify potential benefits related to key programmes.
Assisting in securing support and buy-in to those benefits.
Challenging teams to maximise identification and realisation of benefits.
Enablement of delivery and organisational adoption of relevant systems to ensure realisation.

In return, we will support your growth by providing access to learning and development opportunities to enhance your skills and stay updated with industry trends. You will also have access to all the Trust's benefits including our award-winning health and wellbeing service.

Main duties of the job

In this position, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that the benefits outlined in our key strategic projects and initiatives are realised and maximised. The post holder will ensure the identification of benefit owners and where appropriate, oversee delivery of the key benefits, supporting our clinical, operational and corporate teams as necessary to ensure these benefits are realised, embedded and sustained.

You will be required to work closely with other colleagues across services including Business Informatics, Innovation, Digital, Estates, Finance, Transformation and QI, to develop robust benefits measurement systems and processes to monitor overall progress of key benefits, identifying and supporting performance improvement or adjustment to plans where required and reporting progress to relevant forums across the organisation and wider ICS.

You will be required to utilise relevant programme / project management methods and tools to provide assurance on progress and/or to escalate concerns, ensuring this is collated and presented through relevant governance forums as necessary.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

25 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR179-24

Job locations

Colchester / Ipswich

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience
Formal management or business qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

Project Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

Proven budget management skills and financial acumen with experience of delivering cost improvements/ benefits within a complex organisation
Negotiation and influencing skills at a senior management level
Leading changes in practice in a complex environment to improve performance/services
Evidence of delivering and implementing strategic plans
Presenting complex plans at Board level
Identifying and interpreting national policy and implementing required changes

Desirable

Experience of project management roles
NHS experience at a senior management level
Business case development

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Excellent organisational skills, and evidence of these in a multi-disciplinary environment
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in complex settings, managing multi-dimensional issues
Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
Ability to analyse highly complex data/information/problems and make judgements/draw conclusions
Strong communication skills both written and verbal

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience
Formal management or business qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

Project Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

Proven budget management skills and financial acumen with experience of delivering cost improvements/ benefits within a complex organisation
Negotiation and influencing skills at a senior management level
Leading changes in practice in a complex environment to improve performance/services
Evidence of delivering and implementing strategic plans
Presenting complex plans at Board level
Identifying and interpreting national policy and implementing required changes

Desirable

Experience of project management roles
NHS experience at a senior management level
Business case development

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Excellent organisational skills, and evidence of these in a multi-disciplinary environment
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in complex settings, managing multi-dimensional issues
Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
Ability to analyse highly complex data/information/problems and make judgements/draw conclusions
Strong communication skills both written and verbal

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).

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