Director of Elective Care (Cancer, RTT and Diagnostics)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Summary

To provide leadership to continue the ongoing transformation of cancer, RTT and diagnostics across Kent and Medway.

To lead the team who facilitate the transformation of elective care through networks and boards.

To build strategic plans to enable Kent and Medway to become a leader in the delivery of elective care.

To influence workforce plans to build a sustainable workforce plan.

Key responsibilities

The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the Department/Directorate/Cluster/Sector. Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.

Key aspects of this role will be to:

Ensure the strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.

Ensure the development and management of plans, within the Kent and Medway NHS/Sector.

Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.

Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.

Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.

Manage the budgetary implications of activity.

Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.

Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders.

Main areas of responsibility

Functional Responsibilities

Operational

Lead all activities including, but is not limited to:

Manage, monitor and report on benefits realisation management, tracking the progress and ensuring that the intended benefits are achieved with outcomes maximised.

Oversee the work with the Deputy Directors to ensure the information systems are integrated with the overall strategy; ensuring synergy between strategy milestones and objectives.

Develop appropriate business strategy with appropriate Managers/Directors.

Ensure appropriate governance structures are in place to support.

Manage and monitor the performance management process.

Define and implement business processes that support the functions of the new system.

Work with the Directorate and Human Resources senior staff to ensure the smooth transition of people within the new system. And appropriate focus on the culture changes needed to underpin, working with HR and OD staff to deliver appropriate OD interventions.

Manage the impact on business critical process and key talent.

Manage the appropriate programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track.

Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.

Ensure there is a resource management plan which sets out the activities required to implement. (Resources meaning finances, people, assets and technology).

Manage system risks ensuring they are appropriately identified and controls and/or mitigation is in place, escalating to the system board as appropriate.

Financial and Physical Resources

Budget setting and managing related activity, liaising with Finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costings.

Responsible for ensuring adherence to the Directorate budget, ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny.

Responsible for defining budget required to scope and implement the long term strategic plan.

Responsible for providing guidance and management on the procurement of identified products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned Directorate to execute required services from defining requirements, developing specification, developing bid evaluation methodology, project managing procurement including, achieving stakeholder buy-in, sign off for bid documentation, overseeing bid evaluation, award recommendation and sign off of final deliverables/products as required ensuring they meet the defined levels of quality and value for money. Placing orders and signing invoices, keeping mindful of budget limitations.

Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings as required.

Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities.

Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.

Staff Management

Manage the Directorate, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.

Provide direct performance management and feedback to the Directorate.

Motivate and inspire staff throughout the strategy to role model leadership and innovation.

Leading teams of third parties (predominately consultants/interims) to ensure the plan/deliverables are met in a timely manner, to the required standards and within budget. (Including procuring/recruiting resources, tracking and signing timesheets). The post holder may be leading multiple teams at one time to deliver multiple products.

Work across the wider organisation to agree prioritisation of blocks of work and related resource allocation to ensure high priority work/dependencies are completed in a timely manner.

Responsible for the recruitment and development of the Directorate staff, including undertaking appraisal and personal development and, where appropriate, progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.

To forge positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.

To work in a matrix management style and to foster close working relations with other managers.

To manage, motivate and develop staff within the Directorate to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of the Directorate.

Information Management

Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about the programme and dependencies involving a wide range of stakeholders in formal settings: therefore the post holder must have the ability to deal with resulting potentially challenging situations.

Establish and manage the Directorates risk management, change control and issue resolution processes.

Developing and presenting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time.

Responsible for the management of and reporting of information to relevant internal and external stakeholders, including executive sponsors and non-executive authorities.

Ensure appropriate project management systems are set up to support programme controls and reporting.

Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information and reporting to enhance decision making processes.

Planning and Organisation:

Lead the planning and design of the strategy to meet the vision and strategic direction.

Manage the activities necessary to ensure delivery of a transformational strategy.

Prepare and manage plans for a start-up organisation, engaging various stakeholders to build momentum and support.

Responsible for the overall planning of the strategy and for providing vision and strategic direction to the team.

Define and manage the governance processes of the the strategy.

Chair or attend as appropriate, meetings with varied internal and external key stakeholders to facilitate the delivery of the strategic objectives.

Responsibility for ensuring the function/strategy is delivered to time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner, adjusting plans and resources as required.

Ensuring that the delivery of the function/strategy is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan.

Supports the Director in senior stakeholder engagement and aligning the function/strategy from strategic objectives and business needs.

Policy and Service Development:

Ensure that all staff within the Directorate is aware of relevant policy and procedures and that communication is developed and deployed appropriately.

Proposes changes to and making recommendations for the project as appropriate.

Contribute to the review and development of existing project information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven and significant leadership experience.
• Significant evidence of continued professional development
• Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS in the South East
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

Address

Unit 4

Markerstudy Business Park

Whitstable

Kent

CT5 3FD

Employer's website

https://www.kentandmedway.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)