Job summary
The Deputy Director for Elective Care is a key leadership role within the South West Region and the Performance and Delivery Directorate. The role is key part of the regions oversight and reporting of performance in South West Systems and Providers, including agreeing and monitoring support to improve performance. The role has a line Management responsibility for Elective Planned Care programmes within the region including children elective care (non specialised commissioned care).
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced NHS leader, educated to Masters level or equivalent. Experience of leading complex transformation and improvement programmes is essential.Applicants should have strong elective operational and analytical skills and be able to demonstrate highly advanced relationship skills and be able to make compelling evidence-based arguments to key stakeholders of the need to test new approaches to health care delivery.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role leads on the provision of Insights and Intelligence support to the Southwest Region.
Responsible for the Elective Programmes across the region, including:
- Performance reporting and oversight;
- Working with national programme leads on designing policy and products;
- Tiering and other support to systems and providers;
- Developing Regional Strategies.
Works as part of the Performance and Delivery Leadership Team in monitoring integrated performance across the South West Region.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role leads on the provision of Insights and Intelligence support to the Southwest Region.
Responsible for the Elective Programmes across the region, including:
- Performance reporting and oversight;
- Working with national programme leads on designing policy and products;
- Tiering and other support to systems and providers;
- Developing Regional Strategies.
Works as part of the Performance and Delivery Leadership Team in monitoring integrated performance across the South West Region.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent 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. Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to elective care.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement. Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHSI, other Arm's Length Bodies and individual provider and commissioning organisations. Member of a relevant professional body.
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Desirable
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- 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.
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making.
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- 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.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across multiple sites where required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent 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. Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to elective care.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement. Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHSI, other Arm's Length Bodies and individual provider and commissioning organisations. Member of a relevant professional body.
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Desirable
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
- 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.
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making.
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- 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.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across multiple sites where required.
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).
