Job summary
The post holder will support the transformation Manager and the wider team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
Manage and support a range of innovation projects across the portfolio, providing advice and proactive support.
Lead on developing best practice approaches and rapid sharing of knowledge across the portfolio on ways of resolving critical common issues, providing a focus on innovation culture and learning for all teams engaged in innovation
Promote and provide internal and external information and guidance on how the CSU undertakes innovation and how to access innovation support, funding and what is expected throughout the stages and process of innovation.
Provide a key contact point for training and education on innovation processes, maintaining and developing training materials, guidance and advice for all managers entering to the innovation program
Liaise with appropriate functions within the CSU to ensure alignment and best practice processes are adopted
Support the management of an innovation program content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate and the wider NHS organisation
Take a lead in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Team
Please note - this roles banding is indicative subject to Evaluation.
Main duties of the job
Communication and Relationships
- The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- The post holder will take a lead in developing and maintaining information and guidance for existing and future users of the innovation program. Clear guidance on how to access the innovation service, what is expected and the benefits of this program.
- Providing ongoing best practice procedures, innovation strategy implementation tools and advice to innovation leads and partners.
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data.
- Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- To liaise with other Managers to share best practice.
About us
Arden & GEM is one of the largest Commissioning Support Units in the country. Our customers include more than 60 Integrated Care Boards (ICB), NHS England, local authorities and a range of care providers.
With offices throughout the Midlands, North West and South East we cover a core geographic patch that extends to Greater Manchester in the north and Essex in the south. Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our clients and the challenges they face.
We provide real value to our customers by working at scale, creating the synergies and innovation that ultimately drives improved patient outcomes and makes commissioning resources work harder.
Our cornerstones are quality, value, innovation and complete customer focus.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Financial and Physical Resources
- Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of Team budgets
- Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.
HR Responsibilities
- Take a lead in the coordination of training, development and recruitment activity across the Team
- Manage staff, undertaking appraisals, recruitment including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues, as necessary.
Information Resources
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
Research and Development
- Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and workstream success
- Delegate aspects of Research and Development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Financial and Physical Resources
- Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of Team budgets
- Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.
HR Responsibilities
- Take a lead in the coordination of training, development and recruitment activity across the Team
- Manage staff, undertaking appraisals, recruitment including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues, as necessary.
Information Resources
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
Research and Development
- Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and workstream success
- Delegate aspects of Research and Development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
Person Specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
Skills / Abilities
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Desirable
- Understanding of the public sector
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Person Specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
Skills / Abilities
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Desirable
- Understanding of the public sector
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
