Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Delivery for Equality and Health Inequalities for the East of England. This role will link with the national Health Inequalities Improvement Team, as well as with colleagues across the region in NHS Healthcare Public Health, Integrated Care Systems and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities within the Department of Health and Social Care.
Please note that the reason for fixed term of your contract is Short-term limited project.
Main duties of the job
As Head of Delivery for Equality and Health Inequalities, the post holder's primary focus will be to lead the delivery aspects of the overall regional programme and individual projects, working closely with a number of other regional and national teams, including the national Health Inequalities team, and the six Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in the East of England.
The overall regional programme will support nationally identified priorities, regional priorities and locally identified system priorities. A core aspect of this the national Core20Plus 5 initiative:
- Core 20 - Most deprived 20% of our population
- Plus - Other population groups as identified by local population health data e.g. ethnic minority communities
- 5 - Targeting five key clinical areas of health inequalities:
- Early Cancer diagnosis (screening & early referral)
- Hypertension case finding
- Chronic Respiratory disease (driving Covid & Flu vaccination uptake)
- Annual health checks for people with Serious Mental Illness
- Continuity of maternity carer plans.
The post holder will both lead the support to the six ICSs in the East of England and lead the review and assurance of their plans and delivery of those plans, ensuring anticipated benefits are delivered.
The post holder will have primary responsibility for the successful delivery of the overall programme, working in a matrix way with colleagues from a number of different teams.
About us
The national Health Inequalities Improvement Team has been established to work with other programmes and policy areas across NHSE and partners in the wider system to deliver the team's vision of exceptional quality healthcare for all; ensuring equitable access, excellent experience and optimal outcomes.
The Health Inequalities Improvement Team's role is principally threefold; setting direction in relation to tackling health inequalities across NHSE and the wider NHS; creating a positive improvement culture which champions data as a means of gaining actionable insight to drive interventions leading to improvement in health inequalities; and working with others to ensure that we deliver the commitments to tackling health inequalities set out in the NHS Long-Term Plan and our response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Underpinning all of our work is a strong focus on quality improvement with a real emphasis on data for improvement, strengths-based approaches and co-production with communities, patients and service users.
The team has deep links across NHSE programmes, policy and clinical areas and strong connections with health inequality improvement priorities in public health teams and Local Authorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
- Work internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way, supporting ICSs to secure the potential efficiencies identified by the programme.
- Provide stakeholder management for the programme, engaging a range of senior stakeholders from a number of specialties to support the effective implementation of the programme.
- Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
- Support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvement.
- Support the overall programme and individual projects in demonstrating value for money, tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
- Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist.
- Interrogation, in depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple report/data sets to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes.
- Provide additional advice and guidance to the wider team through working flexibly to directly assist other projects and programmes where they may be a subject matter expert or through providing advice and guidance on best practice.
- Provide advice and guidance across NHS England on specific subject matter areas, where they are the known expert and can relate national policy and best practice to delivery across multiple health and social care systems.
- Develop key performance indicators and milestones for the overall programme and individual projects, managing conflicts and ensuring that interdependencies are managed effectively
Financial and Physical Resources
- Budget setting across a range of areas/services, managing and monitoring related activity, liaising with Finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costings, and ensure compliance with standing financial instructions.
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the programme budget, ensuring appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny. Constantly striving for value for money and greater efficiency.
- Responsible for providing guidance, management and assurance on the procurement of identified products, equipment, services and facilities.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings as required.
- Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets and ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
Staff Management
- Help manage the team, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
- Motivate and inspire staff to role model leadership and innovation.
- Lead multiple teams to ensure the plan/deliverables are met in a timely manner, to the required standards and within budget.
- Work across the organisation to agree prioritisation of blocks of work and related resource allocation.
- Responsible for the recruitment and development of staff, including undertaking appraisal and personal development and, where appropriate, progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.
- Support an effective matrix approach.
- Highlight, promote and report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their impact on service.
Information Management
- Develop the acquisition, provision and use of knowledge and information.
- Required to present to a range of internal and external stakeholders information relating to programme delivery often in challenging and potentially hostile situations.
- Develop and present detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time, tailoring the content to meet the needs of the audience.
- Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information and reporting to enhance decision making processes.
- Contribute to the review and development of existing project information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management.
Planning and Organisation
- Ensure the programme and individual projects are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
- Determine the strategic planning of the programme and individual projects, identifying interdependencies across projects, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Determine the development of performance and governance strategies.
- Determine short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Research and Development
- Develop a strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice this could be UK wide, globally, public or private sector both within and outside the health economy
- Drawing from experience and expertise in other academic fields and industries, ensures that the organisation benefits from relevant initiatives.
- Highlight promote and report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their impact on service.
- Commission and co-ordinate Research and Development strategy to drive innovation
Policy and Service Development
- Ensure that all staff within the team are aware of relevant policy and procedures and that communication is developed and deployed appropriately.
- Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments and support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Core20Plus5 national health inequalities approach.
- Lead on policy development to do with health inequalities across the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational
- Work internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way, supporting ICSs to secure the potential efficiencies identified by the programme.
- Provide stakeholder management for the programme, engaging a range of senior stakeholders from a number of specialties to support the effective implementation of the programme.
- Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
- Support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvement.
- Support the overall programme and individual projects in demonstrating value for money, tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
- Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist.
- Interrogation, in depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple report/data sets to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes.
- Provide additional advice and guidance to the wider team through working flexibly to directly assist other projects and programmes where they may be a subject matter expert or through providing advice and guidance on best practice.
- Provide advice and guidance across NHS England on specific subject matter areas, where they are the known expert and can relate national policy and best practice to delivery across multiple health and social care systems.
- Develop key performance indicators and milestones for the overall programme and individual projects, managing conflicts and ensuring that interdependencies are managed effectively
Financial and Physical Resources
- Budget setting across a range of areas/services, managing and monitoring related activity, liaising with Finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costings, and ensure compliance with standing financial instructions.
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to the programme budget, ensuring appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny. Constantly striving for value for money and greater efficiency.
- Responsible for providing guidance, management and assurance on the procurement of identified products, equipment, services and facilities.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings as required.
- Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets and ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
Staff Management
- Help manage the team, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
- Motivate and inspire staff to role model leadership and innovation.
- Lead multiple teams to ensure the plan/deliverables are met in a timely manner, to the required standards and within budget.
- Work across the organisation to agree prioritisation of blocks of work and related resource allocation.
- Responsible for the recruitment and development of staff, including undertaking appraisal and personal development and, where appropriate, progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.
- Support an effective matrix approach.
- Highlight, promote and report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their impact on service.
Information Management
- Develop the acquisition, provision and use of knowledge and information.
- Required to present to a range of internal and external stakeholders information relating to programme delivery often in challenging and potentially hostile situations.
- Develop and present detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time, tailoring the content to meet the needs of the audience.
- Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information and reporting to enhance decision making processes.
- Contribute to the review and development of existing project information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management.
Planning and Organisation
- Ensure the programme and individual projects are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
- Determine the strategic planning of the programme and individual projects, identifying interdependencies across projects, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Determine the development of performance and governance strategies.
- Determine short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Research and Development
- Develop a strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice this could be UK wide, globally, public or private sector both within and outside the health economy
- Drawing from experience and expertise in other academic fields and industries, ensures that the organisation benefits from relevant initiatives.
- Highlight promote and report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their impact on service.
- Commission and co-ordinate Research and Development strategy to drive innovation
Policy and Service Development
- Ensure that all staff within the team are aware of relevant policy and procedures and that communication is developed and deployed appropriately.
- Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments and support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Core20Plus5 national health inequalities approach.
- Lead on policy development to do with health inequalities across the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following areas oDeveloping concepts / ideas into delivery programmes oWorking on strategy projects / think pieces or problems oWorking at regional or national level oWorking in a public sector strategy function (e.g. Whitehall department; leading strategy consultancy; or think tank with a health focus).
- Track record of translating data into insights and using data to influence tangible interventions with measurable impact
Desirable
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
Skills, capabilities & attributes
Essential
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Equality & Diversity
Essential
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following areas oDeveloping concepts / ideas into delivery programmes oWorking on strategy projects / think pieces or problems oWorking at regional or national level oWorking in a public sector strategy function (e.g. Whitehall department; leading strategy consultancy; or think tank with a health focus).
- Track record of translating data into insights and using data to influence tangible interventions with measurable impact
Desirable
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
Skills, capabilities & attributes
Essential
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Equality & Diversity
Essential
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
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).
