Job responsibilities
The post-holder will have the following responsibilities aligned to seven key domains: leadership capabilities; staff development and wellbeing; programme management and delivery; strategic acumen; health sector knowledge and experience; technical skills; and relationships and stakeholder engagement:
Leadership Capabilities
Contribute to the development of a highly effective strategy team that is focused on developing high-quality strategies that support the ICBs and ICS key objectives.
Contribute to regular team briefings on ICS strategies and priorities ensuring all staff know how they contribute to the business.
Build strong relationships with the wider ICS to: provide guidance to the development of the ICS strategies, inform the overarching ICP strategy, and inform the evolving functions of the strategy team.
Use open communication and provide constructive feedback to colleagues at all levels and support the building of strong relationships and effective teams.
Support the head of strategy to lead a highly effective strategy team that is focused on developing high-quality strategies that support the ICBs and ICS key objectives.
Influence programme, collaborative, borough and corporate teams to improve efficiency, effectiveness and equity through robust and respectful challenge.
Take ownership of significant pieces of work e.g., strategy for ICS programmes, structure work plan and ensure delivery by working with and through ICS programme teams.
Staff Development and Wellbeing
Support, motivate and inspire team members, and invest time in two-way coaching.
Develop and embed mechanisms to support and improve the health and wellbeing of the strategy team.
Help build a high-performing strategy team that is celebrated in terms of diversity, skill-set, experience, and expertise in the team.
Play an active role in team management; line manage, motivate and develop team members so that they are able to deliver at their best, ensuring that they are delivering their objectives
Complete relevant EDI training and also undertake fair and objective recruitment training as appropriate.
Complete statutory and mandatory training required for this specific role, within the mandated timeframe.
Develop and continually refine career development objectives aligned to the responsibilities of the strategy team.
Programme Management and Delivery
Manage strategy team activities on a day-to-day basis to deliver work to agreed outcomes and timescales.
Lead on identifying the appropriate governance and programme management routes within the current structures to which to provide regular and timely reporting.
Provide regular reports and assurance to key governance forums of the ICB and ICS meetings.
Lead on developing systems and frameworks to effectively monitor programme delivery and to support future strategic developments.
Monitor KPIs against agreed metrics and outcomes (e.g. value for money, health outcomes, etc.) to identify areas for improvement, escalating and identifying improvement initiatives as appropriate.
Manage risks, ensuring that appropriate mitigations are in place and risks escalated as necessary.
Support programmes, borough-based partnerships, corporate functions and other key groups to develop detailed programme plans to deliver transformation.
Play an active role in team management; line manage, motivate and develop relevant team members so that they are able to deliver at their best, ensuring that they have annual appraisals, a development plan and that regular one to ones are held.
Work with relevant leads to develop a suite of KPIs, and associated targets and trajectories to track progress and support the ICS in the delivery of its four objectives. KPIs should track productivity and value for money, impact on inequalities, care quality and access, and outcomes.
Structure work plan, manage progress and ensure delivery of significant pieces of work e.g., ICS programme strategy by working with and through ICS programme teams.
Strategic Acumen
Develop, refine, and implement strategic frameworks to support the ICS prioritise key activities and track success.
Formulate hypotheses required to support the development of ICS strategies e.g. identify and measure productivity as a potential transformation initiative.
Support the financial responsibilities of the ICB through indirect approaches this includes supporting the head of strategy in reviewing the ICBs overall expenditure, assessing the value for money of the services we commission, and proposing methods for spending money more effectively to achieve our four overarching objectives.
Identify and clearly articulate the tasks that need to be completed to build the evidence required to develop each strategy. Up-skill other teams as required through knowledge sharing.
Formulate clear, concise, and useful insights by collating, critically interrogating, and effectively combining large quantities of quantitative and qualitative information.
Critically interrogate the validity, suitability and limitations of the evidence that is available to support the development of strategies.
Develop tools and templates for developing and delivering strategies, informed by industry best practice.
Support and provide input to NWL commissioning and contracting processes to deliver transformation.
Support, as required, on the public consultation process for significant service change, including developing pre-consultation business cases, decision-making business cases, impact assessments and consultation plans.
Develop business cases to support investment and support contracting and procurement requirements for key services.
Health Sector Knowledge and Experience
Support the head of strategy by leading projects related to research & development R&D of health services across the system, including monitoring of the current state of services, understanding and articulating the under/over-performance of services from value for money, care quality and access, and outcomes perspectives and developing new models of care to address areas of under-performance.
Keep up to date with national and international health policies and trends, and ensure that these inform all strategy work as appropriate.
Support strategic prioritisation activities through the use of health economics methodologies to understand the impact of initiatives on key health sector domains e.g. outcomes, care quality, access, patient experience, value for public monies, etc.
Support programmes to develop single, common offer specifications that define the right level of care through an evidence-based model of care and shared core standards to ensure equity across NWL.
Ensure links and alignment with other programmes, borough-based partnerships and other teams in NWL, and act as a central point of contact spokesperson on all significant matters relating to relevant subject area.
Work closely with co-ordinating leads and relevant providers to inform service design, transformation and delivery.
Support the development of outcome-based service specifications and novel contracting mechanisms where appropriate.
Support standardised contracting approaches to deliver the desired outcomes.
Technical Skills
Manage the development of tools, templates and methodologies required to support the development of strategies, including health economics analysis.
Interrogate and interpret data and information with a critical eye, simplify analyses, and provide key, easily digestible insights to suit a wide audience.
Analyse data as required, and leverage strong quantitative skills to produce strategic analyses such as benchmarks against peers, forecasts, and analysis of historic trends and patterns.
Develop and manage data and information requests to a wide range of internal and external teams and stakeholders.
Leverage the wide array of health and social care data held internally, by external partners, and in the public domain.
Respond to analytical requests within tight timescales, whilst keeping work to a high standard.
Prepare clear and concise presentations, papers and reports for a wide variety of audiences that include a diverse array of information, including charts, tables, policy information, direct quotes, and other sources of information.
Prepare effective communications through a mixed-media approach for senior management, clinical professionals, patients, and the public.
Use Microsoft Office software packages such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to their fullest extent.
Use slides and other materials to tell an effective story that is underpinned by robust evidence throughout.
Write and refine storylines for strategies and other reports until the message is clearly articulated to suit a wide range of stakeholders.
Develop slides with clear messages that are reinforced and supported by the accompanying data and other evidence.
Synthesise lengthy reports, policies, and similar information into concise key messages to suit a senior audience.
Quality assure all analytical and written content, and uphold high standards for quality, accuracy, and clarity of message.
Relationships and Stakeholder Engagement
Operate effectively and with impact in a highly political and sensitive environment.
Present quantitative and qualitative information and explain highly complex issues in an easy-to-digest manner to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Develop detailed communications and engagement plans at the start of each strategy project.
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups or projects to provide information, and strategic and analytical advice and expertise.
Work in an integrated manner with programmes, borough-based partnerships, provider collaboratives, corporate functions, and people with lived experience to co-design and transform services thereby building formal and informal networks.
Maintain clear and effective lines of communications with each of these teams at all levels.
