Job summary
Are you passionate about improving health outcomes?Would you like an exciting and varied role, working with partners across Lincolnshire's health and care system?Our Health Inequalities Team works in partnership with stakeholders across Lincolnshire to achieve our vision to increase life expectancy and quality of life for people living in Lincolnshire and reduce the gap between the healthiest and least healthy populations within our county.The Team is responsible for delivery of national and local Health Inequality and Prevention priorities. This includes continued work to drive forward delivery against the five National strategic priorities for Health Inequalities; the 'Core20PLUS5' approach for Adults and Children and Young People; Long Term Plan Prevention priorities and our local priorities for Living Well, Staying Well.As a Health Inequalities Improvement Manager, you'll be responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a range of interdependent projects, primarily focussed on prevention priorities.As well as leading multi-disciplinary project teams, workstreams and task and finish groups, you'll also be responsible for line managing a small team of colleagues within the Health Inequalities Team.You will be educated to masters level, have experience of managing complex projects and change initiatives and have a project management qualification (e.g. Prince 2) or significant working experience of using project management approaches.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for leading and co-ordinating a set of interdependent projects and deliverables from the Health Inequalities work programme. You'll have primary responsibility for the successful delivery of outcomes and the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance including progress monitoring, managing risks and issues and ensuring business readiness for change.
As well as leading multi-disciplinary project teams, workstreams and task and finish groups you'll also be responsible for line managing a small team of colleagues within the Health Inequalities Team.
You'll be educated to masters level or have an equivalent level of experience of working at a commensurate level and be able to demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role.
About us
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.
In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme: system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.
The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB's objectives and financial sustainability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for leading and co-ordinating a set of interdependent projects and deliverables as outlined in the ISC System Plan and assigned to the ICS Health Inequalities Improvement Programme and the associated business change activities
The post holder will have primary responsibility for the successful delivery of the required outcomes for a defined set of projects including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change.
The postholder will:
- Support and co-ordinate activity around inclusion health groups locally and system level and social values and anchors work
- Provide a professional, comprehensive, efficient, accurate and timely project management function which is appropriately resourced and closely aligned to the needs of the ICS and ICB
- Deliver significant projects for the ICS, targeted at improvements in healthcare access, experience and outcomes for patients and the public.
- Manage the set-up and delivery of projects, working with colleagues and subject matter experts on the strategic planning, scoping, design and the delivery.
- Manage the whole lifecycle of a project, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to the project board.
- Develop appropriate, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
- Develop and deliver, as required, training relating to project delivery and managing change.
- Work with other Senior Project Managers to strengthen links between the Health Inequalities Team. As part of this help the teams senior leadership team understand other team priorities, identify potential areas of overlap in programmes and opportunities for joint working.
- Demonstrate flexibility and support new programmes and projects as required.
- Ensure all public contact with the Programme office is of highest professional standard.
Key working relationships:
- The post-holder will be required to:
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Work effectively with a variety of external consultancies working on other projects and programmes within other NHS directorates as required.
- Communicate and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)
- Work and engage constructively with stakeholders on a range of issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
- Ensure close liaison with the Communications and Stakeholder team on public relations and marketing activities.
- Apply a structured project management approach and methodology in relation to project management.
- Deputise for senior staff as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for leading and co-ordinating a set of interdependent projects and deliverables as outlined in the ISC System Plan and assigned to the ICS Health Inequalities Improvement Programme and the associated business change activities
The post holder will have primary responsibility for the successful delivery of the required outcomes for a defined set of projects including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change.
The postholder will:
- Support and co-ordinate activity around inclusion health groups locally and system level and social values and anchors work
- Provide a professional, comprehensive, efficient, accurate and timely project management function which is appropriately resourced and closely aligned to the needs of the ICS and ICB
- Deliver significant projects for the ICS, targeted at improvements in healthcare access, experience and outcomes for patients and the public.
- Manage the set-up and delivery of projects, working with colleagues and subject matter experts on the strategic planning, scoping, design and the delivery.
- Manage the whole lifecycle of a project, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to the project board.
- Develop appropriate, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
- Develop and deliver, as required, training relating to project delivery and managing change.
- Work with other Senior Project Managers to strengthen links between the Health Inequalities Team. As part of this help the teams senior leadership team understand other team priorities, identify potential areas of overlap in programmes and opportunities for joint working.
- Demonstrate flexibility and support new programmes and projects as required.
- Ensure all public contact with the Programme office is of highest professional standard.
Key working relationships:
- The post-holder will be required to:
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Work effectively with a variety of external consultancies working on other projects and programmes within other NHS directorates as required.
- Communicate and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)
- Work and engage constructively with stakeholders on a range of issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
- Ensure close liaison with the Communications and Stakeholder team on public relations and marketing activities.
- Apply a structured project management approach and methodology in relation to project management.
- Deputise for senior staff as required.
Person Specification
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle insured for business use for travel as required including attending meetings and events etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a commensurate band/level
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of managing projects and leading change projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
- Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at Board level
- Proven experience and ability to prioritise own work effectively and managing competing demands.
- Proven track record in working with health and social care providers in designing, developing and delivering interventions that utilise information and the evidence base
- Proven experience in facilitating relationships and achieving goals using a coaching and nurturing style and ability to hold partners to account if trajectories not achieved.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
Knowledge
Essential
- Comprehensive understanding of the determinants of population health and inequality
- Appreciation of evidence and thinking relating to practices which identify and reduce health inequality and improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Understanding of health inequalities and the data required to analyse variation in outcomes
- Understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Lincolnshire ICS health and care system and our local priorities and outcomes
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to engage with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation
- Capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
- Proven ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and networks in a politically sensitive and/or changing environment
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and advanced keyboard skills
Personal Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, the NHS Constitution, the Nolan Principles, and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Compassionate and collaborative leadership style, with a track record of improvements in equality, diversity, inclusion, or social justice
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
- Committed to continuing professional and personal development.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to connect their work and benefits to patients and the public.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Values diversity and difference
Person Specification
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle insured for business use for travel as required including attending meetings and events etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a commensurate band/level
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of managing projects and leading change projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
- Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at Board level
- Proven experience and ability to prioritise own work effectively and managing competing demands.
- Proven track record in working with health and social care providers in designing, developing and delivering interventions that utilise information and the evidence base
- Proven experience in facilitating relationships and achieving goals using a coaching and nurturing style and ability to hold partners to account if trajectories not achieved.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
Knowledge
Essential
- Comprehensive understanding of the determinants of population health and inequality
- Appreciation of evidence and thinking relating to practices which identify and reduce health inequality and improve patient outcomes and experience.
- Understanding of health inequalities and the data required to analyse variation in outcomes
- Understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Lincolnshire ICS health and care system and our local priorities and outcomes
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to engage with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation
- Capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
- Proven ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and networks in a politically sensitive and/or changing environment
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and advanced keyboard skills
Personal Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, the NHS Constitution, the Nolan Principles, and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Compassionate and collaborative leadership style, with a track record of improvements in equality, diversity, inclusion, or social justice
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
- Committed to continuing professional and personal development.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to connect their work and benefits to patients and the public.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Values diversity and difference
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.
