Job summary
The successful candidate will be joining our organisation at an exciting time with a real opportunity to shape the development of AGH Solutions at a time when Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) is embarking on the development of a new health and care facility through their participation the National New Hospital Programme.
For several years, AGHS has been a key partner on the ongoing activity to address the Trust's Reinforced Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (RAAC) related challenges. AGHS will also be a key partner on ANHSFT participation in the New Hospital Programme (NHP), with a new health and care facility due to be built on the Trust's Steeton site by 2030.
The Trust's commitment to working together with Partners gives further opportunity to AGHS and its future strategy as well as to the Trust.
The AGHS Managing Director appointment, along with other associated planned changes to the AGHS Board, will continue to further strengthen AGHS future and help the Trust develop and enhance the delivery of their patient focused services strategy.
Main duties of the job
The AGHS Managing Director role will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Company, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trust and key supplier to the Trust. The role offers a real opportunity to shape AGHS and the Trust's future.
About us
AGH Solutions deliver high standards of estates, facilities and procurement services to the Trust and other customers. AGHS have made significant changes in the way we work to meet the challenges of the changing NHS. AGHS is a wholly owned by the Trust, and the AGHS Board has full accountability for the delivery of high quality, cost effective services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
All candidates will be expected to complete a shortened application form, CV and covering letter explaining why they are applying for the role and how they meet the requirements of the Job Description and person Specification via NHS Jobs.
A shortlisting exercise will then be undertaken against the requirements as set out in the Job Description and Person Specifications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
All candidates will be expected to complete a shortened application form, CV and covering letter explaining why they are applying for the role and how they meet the requirements of the Job Description and person Specification via NHS Jobs.
A shortlisting exercise will then be undertaken against the requirements as set out in the Job Description and Person Specifications.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master level or equivalent experience or with significant Board level leadership experience
- Strong evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Desirable
- Relevant professional and/or leadership qualification
Skills and Atributes
Essential
- Committed to NHS values and principles demonstrating high standards of corporate conduct and personal integrity.
- A leader as well as a team player able to establish and maintain strong and effective partnerships with customers, stakeholders, the public and employees
- Demonstrates the resilience necessary to operate successful in a highly visible, transparent and accountable environment
- Strong, visible, creative, inclusive and open leadership style
- Politically astute with an ability to grasp pertinent issues whilst understanding relationships between interested parties
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Excellent negotiation, interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to lead and motivate a diverse team to develop and sustain a commitment to a common purpose of delivering excellence in service delivery and patient care
- Working in partnership to drive change
- Visionary, solution focused with the confidence to explore new opportunities and to promote new ways of thinking and service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed awareness and understanding of the NHS and the NHS Constitution including the Green Plan
- Understanding of good effective corporate governance
- Significant knowledge of estates, facilities management, and procurement or detailed knowledge of large scale capital programmes and delivery
Desirable
- Detailed understanding and appreciation of the commercial environment, specific to ANHSFT
- Knowledge of public sector capital funding
Experience
Essential
- Successful strategic and developmental leadership secured at Director level delivering patient or customer care through specialist teams
- Leading estates, facilities and procurement services or leading large scale capital programmes
- Implementing and overseeing strong corporate governance arrangements
- Strong track record of leading transformational change
- Experience of leading staff engagement in a large and diverse environment
- Senior leadership of a large complex results driven organisation with significant evidence of robust performance delivery and financial management
- Experience of delivering agreed profit targets and driving efficiency and service improvement
- Senior leadership and management of risk including health and safety in a large and complex environment
- Business development and commercial contract negotiations and management.
Desirable
- Commercial environment experience
- Senior leadership of a large scale design and build programme
- NHS experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master level or equivalent experience or with significant Board level leadership experience
- Strong evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Desirable
- Relevant professional and/or leadership qualification
Skills and Atributes
Essential
- Committed to NHS values and principles demonstrating high standards of corporate conduct and personal integrity.
- A leader as well as a team player able to establish and maintain strong and effective partnerships with customers, stakeholders, the public and employees
- Demonstrates the resilience necessary to operate successful in a highly visible, transparent and accountable environment
- Strong, visible, creative, inclusive and open leadership style
- Politically astute with an ability to grasp pertinent issues whilst understanding relationships between interested parties
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Excellent negotiation, interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to lead and motivate a diverse team to develop and sustain a commitment to a common purpose of delivering excellence in service delivery and patient care
- Working in partnership to drive change
- Visionary, solution focused with the confidence to explore new opportunities and to promote new ways of thinking and service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed awareness and understanding of the NHS and the NHS Constitution including the Green Plan
- Understanding of good effective corporate governance
- Significant knowledge of estates, facilities management, and procurement or detailed knowledge of large scale capital programmes and delivery
Desirable
- Detailed understanding and appreciation of the commercial environment, specific to ANHSFT
- Knowledge of public sector capital funding
Experience
Essential
- Successful strategic and developmental leadership secured at Director level delivering patient or customer care through specialist teams
- Leading estates, facilities and procurement services or leading large scale capital programmes
- Implementing and overseeing strong corporate governance arrangements
- Strong track record of leading transformational change
- Experience of leading staff engagement in a large and diverse environment
- Senior leadership of a large complex results driven organisation with significant evidence of robust performance delivery and financial management
- Experience of delivering agreed profit targets and driving efficiency and service improvement
- Senior leadership and management of risk including health and safety in a large and complex environment
- Business development and commercial contract negotiations and management.
Desirable
- Commercial environment experience
- Senior leadership of a large scale design and build programme
- NHS experience
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.
