Job responsibilities
Job Description:
Executive Director of Implementation
Key success factors:
Leading adoption of innovation a deep understanding of how to lead teams to support the adoption and implementation of innovation into health and care pathways to improve services and deliver population health benefit in the real world.
Leading spread of innovation experience leading teams to spread innovation across health and care providers and systems, with a track record of delivering impact from innovation in the real world at scale.
Leading implementation partnerships experience leading teams to develop effective, supportive and trusted partnerships with Integrated Care Systems, health and care providers, clinical and operational teams.
Leading project/ programme portfolios experience leading large and complex portfolios of innovation and transformation projects/ partnerships to deliver impact at scale.
Leading people a track record of managing and developing diverse, inclusive and high performing teams in a matrix-working environment.
Executive leadership ability to build trusted relationships with Board and Executive Team members, develop and maintain a collaborative enterprise first Executive Team culture and guide executive and board decision making in a complex and changing environment.
Flexibility and adaptability comfortable with change, managing teams in ambiguous contexts and with the ability to look around problems, adapt approaches and make hard choices to achieve goals.
Commercially astute experiencing leading teams to grow and diversify income through effective business development and delivery of commercially sustainable activities, with the ability to be effective at both strategic and operational levels in a small organisation environment.
Data, evidence and insight committed to putting data, evidence and the experience of the public and patients at the center of how design, develop and deliver our work.
Commitment to our values and to improving population health and health & care services for people living in the South West.
Executive Team shared responsibilities:
Income generation: collective responsibility for generating a strong business development pipeline and delivering enterprise level income generation targets of circa £6m per annum.
Profit and loss: collective responsibility for delivering enterprise level profit and loss in line with an annual budget agreed with the Board.
Resource allocation: collective responsibility for ensuring effective allocation of resource to business plan priorities and projects.
Performance and delivery: collective responsibility for ensuring delivery of our annual business plan and key performance indicators
Risk: collective responsibility for identifying and mitigating enterprise level risks.
Account management: collective responsibility to ensuring effective management of our relationships with key partners, commissioners and customers.
People: collective responsibility for leading, developing and ensuring the effective working of our wider Senior Leadership Team.
Individual executive responsibilities:
Adoption of innovation leading our support to partners to adopt and implement evidenced based innovation into health and care pathways, aligned to agreed regional research and innovation priorities.
Spread of innovation leading our support to partners to spread innovation across health and care providers and system aligned to agreed regional research and innovation priorities.
Implementation partnerships leading the development of effective and supportive partnerships with and across health and care systems, providers, clinical and operational teams.
Project/ programme delivery leading and ensuring effective delivery of large and complex portfolios of innovation and transformation projects, including ensuring quality of project delivery, customer/ commissioner satisfaction, commercial viability of the project, effective invoicing, cash collection and project closure.
Executive leadership: be an engaged, collaborative, and active member of our Board, Executive and Senior Leadership Team, influencing discussions and collectively leading our organisations vision, strategy, operational capacity and values.
Income generation: generating a strong business development pipeline from customer/ commissioner accounts and delivering individual income targets through a defined project delivery portfolio.
Profit and loss: delivering annual profit and loss in line with agreed budget expectations for projects within their executive portfolio.
Account management: oversight and management of key partners, commissioners and customers, including executive responsibility for our relationship and work with 1 of 3 of our ICSs partners and leading our relationships with NHS England Innovation Research and Life Sciences Team, NHS England Patient Safety Team and local health and care providers.
Priority/ thematic leadership: oversight of our knowledge development, project portfolio and contribution to least one of the regional research and innovation priorities agreed with our partners.
People: direct line management responsibility for c.3 senior managers and overall responsibility for a team of c.15 roles.
Internal relationships: develop close working relationships with colleagues from across the organisation, working flexibly and adopting a one team approach across the organisation.
What youll need to succeed:
Experience we are looking for:
Experience leading implementation of innovation and/ or transformation of health and care pathways to improve population health and enhance health and care system productivity.
Experience developing effective, supportive and trusted partnerships with and across health and care systems, providers, clinical and operational teams to deliver improvement and impact in the real world.
Experience managing large and complex portfolios of projects and partnerships.
Experience working at a senior level in a complex organisation, ideally with Board level experience.
Experience leading successful business development and income generation.
Experience, or significant understanding and knowledge of, working in a limited company (CLG or CLS).
Experience managing effective partnerships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role:
Experience leading a delivery focused directorate in a complex, innovative and fast-moving environment.
Experience supporting partners across public and private sectors to increase the value and impact of innovation at a regional level.
Experience working in an Executive Team transforming lives through health and care innovation.
Our Values
- We are impact-led - we are solutions focused, action orientated and adapt plans to achieve desired end goals.
- We are improvement focused - we seek to understand problems, look at things from different angles, test ideas and learn from our experiences.
- We are collaborative - we value diversity of perspectives, commit to and place trust in others to contribute towards collective goals.
Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer
