Job summary
We are looking for an experienced senior leader to work alongside the National Director for Elective Care and the Chief Financial Officer to bring together a world class Demand Insights team.
Working across NHS England, with key stakeholders across government, the team will assess demand for NHS services, trends in usage, and likely changes over time. Building an evidence base from both primary and secondary research, the outputs of the team will influence how the NHS plans and manages activity across urgent and emergency care, primary care, elective care, and wider preventative care.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be accountable for this programme of work and ensuring that it is used to drive transformational change. They will be expected to have demonstrable experience of delivering major programmes and leading effective teams. Being successful in this role will require a combination of specialist skills and experience including extensive experience of leading and implementing health The successful post holder will have an in-depth understanding of the health service at ESM level and demonstrable experience of developing and delivering strategies at a senior/national level. They will also be expected to have vast experience of operating in a political environment, including in parliament, with political parties and No10 including ministers and very senior officials across HMG as the post holder will be directly accountable for areas of policy to ministers. For more information on the experience and skills required, please read the full job description.
About us
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS. Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care - NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector - to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently. From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital has become one single organisation "NHS England", putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please job description for further details.
Key priorities for the postholder will include focusing on understanding NHS demand and using those insight, bringing leadership synergies together and ensuring that these lead to outcomes which have a direct impact on patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please job description for further details.
Key priorities for the postholder will include focusing on understanding NHS demand and using those insight, bringing leadership synergies together and ensuring that these lead to outcomes which have a direct impact on patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or above in economics or similar discipline or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in relevant specialist area.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed negotiation and political skills and awareness and experience of operating at Board/senior leadership level in an NHS environment or wider public or commercial organisation.
- Experience working with very senior stakeholders at Permanent Secretary and/or Ministerial level.
- Proven leadership skills.
- Good communicator and leader of change.
- Ability to demonstrate, at a senior level, a range of leadership styles, influencing skills, sound judgement and flexibility to secure results.
- A role model, demonstrating a high level of integrity and the ability to motivate others.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness and as an inclusive leader.
- Clear integrity and a commitment to maintaining the highest personal and professional standards, appropriate to the responsibilities attached to holding a senior position within a public body.
- Analytical rigour coupled with pragmatic problem-solving in addressing complex situations.
- Ability to drive innovative approaches that can be implemented in the NHS.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- The ability to solve complex policy and real work practical challenges.
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks.
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity.
- Ability to build, nurture and set direction through stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills.
- Ability to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-moving environment.
- Ability to make timely and sound judgements and decisions to secure the effective delivery and sustainability of services, within a complex and demanding environment.
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder relationship management at Board/Executive Director level.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or above in economics or similar discipline or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in relevant specialist area.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed negotiation and political skills and awareness and experience of operating at Board/senior leadership level in an NHS environment or wider public or commercial organisation.
- Experience working with very senior stakeholders at Permanent Secretary and/or Ministerial level.
- Proven leadership skills.
- Good communicator and leader of change.
- Ability to demonstrate, at a senior level, a range of leadership styles, influencing skills, sound judgement and flexibility to secure results.
- A role model, demonstrating a high level of integrity and the ability to motivate others.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness and as an inclusive leader.
- Clear integrity and a commitment to maintaining the highest personal and professional standards, appropriate to the responsibilities attached to holding a senior position within a public body.
- Analytical rigour coupled with pragmatic problem-solving in addressing complex situations.
- Ability to drive innovative approaches that can be implemented in the NHS.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- The ability to solve complex policy and real work practical challenges.
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks.
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity.
- Ability to build, nurture and set direction through stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills.
- Ability to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-moving environment.
- Ability to make timely and sound judgements and decisions to secure the effective delivery and sustainability of services, within a complex and demanding environment.
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder relationship management at Board/Executive Director level.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
