Benefits Realisation Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is a 6-month fixed term contract. The main deliverables during this period are:

A benefits realisation framework for BNSSG ICB that secures the delivery of benefits aligned with business need, including:

o A methodology for identifying categorising and mapping benefits

o A methodology for calculating, standardising, quantifying and measuring benefits, this could be through a menu of common benefits, calculations and algorithms

o An approach to benefits realisation planning that takes account of the pace of implementation and dependencies

o A mechanism for securing stakeholder buy-in to benefits realisation e.g. a stakeholder compact

o A methodology for identifying and calculating risk associated with benefits realisation

o A set of tools and guidance that enables practitioners to easily apply the benefits realisation framework

Secures broad stakeholder support, both within and outside the ICB, to applying the benefits realisation framework

Application of the benefits realisation framework through 2 worked examples to show what it would look like to apply the benefits realisation framework to ICS transformation projects

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Knowledge of emerging policy and practice, and regional and local health economy drivers
• Leadership of benefits realisation policy and practice
• 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
• Clear track record of successful delivery of highly complex system wide programmes of innovation and service change
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of benefits realisation
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
• Successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment

Communication Skills

Essential

• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS
• 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
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments

Analytical

Essential

• Expertise in analysing highly complex issues and modelling future scenarios where material is novel, conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. Supporting evidence and data driven decision making in all aspects of delivery
• Evidence of ability to concentrate on complex issues and modelling on a day to day basis
• 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

Planning Skills

Essential

• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly

Desirable

• Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects

Autonomy

Essential

• 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 make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues

Management Skills

Essential

• Experience in leading benefits realisation within 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
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Ability to teach and train staff in new innovative policy and practice

Physical Skills

Essential

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Equality and Diversity

Essential

• Demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas
• Evidence of reviewing and implementing the most effective way to promote equality, diversity and inclusion across employment practices and/or service delivery. Demonstrate the ability to take appropriate actions which support and promote this agenda.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

Address

100 Temple Street

Temple Street

Redcliffe, Bristol

BS1 6BH

Employer's website

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