Transformation Lead

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 November 2024

Job summary

The primary objective of the role is to lead large scale, complex transformation projects across the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust organisation and the wider health and social care system.

This will include designing and delivering projects in accordance with ESNEFT and wider system and alliance strategies in addition to providing direct support to the Senior Transformation Lead, Deputy Head and Heads of Transformation as required.

The role will be predominately based at Colchester, however, with various components requiring work across both Colchester and Ipswich Acute Hospital locations as well as Community Hospital locations.You will:

Plan, lead and monitor specific trust urgent and emergency care projects or elective care projects, ensuring delivery of outcomes which are aligned with system-wide and organisational strategies, business plans and programmes of work
Ensure that the urgent and emergency care projects and/or elective care projects are planned and managed effectively and ensure safe and seamless integration with other existing processes and services
Engage with colleagues across all parts of the Trust and wider system, bringing together expertise, skills and ideas to maximise patient outcomes and ambitions of the urgent and emergency care programme or elective care programme

Main duties of the job

o Responsible for planning and advising on the co-production and implementation of new care pathways to achieve step changes in quality and patient experience. This will include complex audits/surveys of the emerging and current best practice, liaison with service users, monitoring of key commercial developments and close working with stakeholders to prepare the case for change and change management plans
To matrix manage project teams of different professional groups, accounting for and considering their views and opinions to ensure consensus is reached to enable the implementation of new initiatives, pathways and processes.
Working with staff across the Trust to ensure that projects fully meet clinical and operational needs while delivering tangible benefits in terms of efficiency, clinical risk and cost in line with agreed time and quality requirements
Recognise risks and issues which may impact rate of progress to the urgent and emergency care programme and produce a range of options which can be presented to the Project / Transformation Boards to mitigate this

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 the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, 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

14 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR1651-24

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

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

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading project groups
Experience of presenting to large and small groups
Experience of working in a complex environment
Experience of delivering successful change initiatives within an operational or clinical team
Experience of managing multiple and complex projects including reporting and tracking of plans and actions
Experience of leading transformation projects at a Trust wide level.

Desirable

Experience of participation in 'system-wide' change management projects
Identifying and interpreting national policy and implementing required changes.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level (in relevant areas of study) or with the equivalent professional experience
Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

Formal training in process change methods e.g. PDSA or LEAN
Project Management qualification.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge of process improvement methods and approaches
Knowledge of business planning processes and aims
Knowledge of health service management
Knowledge of urgent and emergency care pathways and/or elective care pathways
Knowledge of latest national directive and deliverables regarding urgent and emergency care pathways and/or elective care pathways.

Desirable

Knowledge of the ESNEFT vision and strategy
Knowledge of the wider system partners.
Knowledge of community services

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leading project groups
Experience of presenting to large and small groups
Experience of working in a complex environment
Experience of delivering successful change initiatives within an operational or clinical team
Experience of managing multiple and complex projects including reporting and tracking of plans and actions
Experience of leading transformation projects at a Trust wide level.

Desirable

Experience of participation in 'system-wide' change management projects
Identifying and interpreting national policy and implementing required changes.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level (in relevant areas of study) or with the equivalent professional experience
Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

Formal training in process change methods e.g. PDSA or LEAN
Project Management qualification.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge of process improvement methods and approaches
Knowledge of business planning processes and aims
Knowledge of health service management
Knowledge of urgent and emergency care pathways and/or elective care pathways
Knowledge of latest national directive and deliverables regarding urgent and emergency care pathways and/or elective care pathways.

Desirable

Knowledge of the ESNEFT vision and strategy
Knowledge of the wider system partners.
Knowledge of community services

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.