Job summary
We are recruiting an experienced senior manager from across our partnership to be our Managing Director for the NCL Health Alliance.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious, inspirational leader to have large-scale impact for the delivery of healthcare services in North Central London.
Please find out more and apply for this role via our website at:
https://uclpartners.com/vacancy/managing-director-ncl-health-alliance/
This role can be arranged through secondment from the employing or equivalent NHS organisation.
Main duties of the job
The Managing Director will provide the strategic and operational leadership for the NCL Health Alliance as well as being part of the senior leadership team for UCLP. They will be responsible for developing, shaping, leading, agreeing and co-ordinating the delivery of the Alliance, strategy and work programme: based on both short-term delivery and medium-term development priorities. As part of this they will be responsible for promoting and leading a culture of continuous improvement and learning working in collaboration with colleagues and teams, within the service and as appropriate across the system for the purposes of improvement. The post holder will manage key relationships and partnership approaches to enable delivery and development.
About us
We are a health innovation partnership. Our mission is to help five million people from North London to the Essex coast live longer, healthier lives. We solve the biggest health challenges through research and innovation, speeding up the delivery of solutions that improve health and care.
Please visit our website to find out more about us, our values and how we work.
NCL Health Alliance
The NCL Health Alliance is the provider collaborative for North Central London and is a partner organisation embedded within UCLPartners. The Alliance brings together 13 health providers from across primary care, acute (Royal Free London, North Middlesex, UCLH, Whittington Health), community (CLCH& CNWL), mental health (BEH, C&I, Tavistock and Portman) and specialist NHS Trusts (GOSH Moorfields, RNOH), including a system wide GP Provider Alliance (GPPA).
Details
Date posted
30 November 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience highly competitive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
B0273-23-0020
Job locations
U C L Partners
170 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7HA
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities include;
Leadership of delivery of the NCL Health Alliance including:
Operational and strategic planning responsibilities
1. As a senior leadership figure within UCL Partners contribute to the organisation's strategic corporate and improvement agendas.
2. To direct the activities of and provide senior leadership to NCL Health Alliance team and services delivered within the Care Group.
3. Be accountable for the provision of safe, effective and efficient project management across all agreed work programmes within the resources available.
4. Ensure that there is satisfactory system wide clinical engagement to drive forward establishment of structures and processes which ensure a high standard of patient safety and patient experience within the work programmes.
5. Escalate risks in quality and compliance to relevant member Executives and UCLP CEO where necessary.
6. Ensure systems are in place for delivery of plans identified through risks and other intelligence in a timely manner and that appropriate interventions are made to improve the safety and quality of service delivery and care.
7. Responsible for ensuring maintenance of a live and relevant risk register and establish and maintain clear mechanisms within NCL Health Alliance to ensure that this is reviewed regularly.
8. Responsible for planning, implementing and delivering the NCL Health Alliance work programmes in line with the agreed organisational objectives and policies through the development of the annual business plan.
9. Lead on the development of high-quality system business cases, in consultation with appropriate key stakeholders, for specific service developments or strategic investments within NCL Health Alliance and the NCL system.
10. Ensure that NCL Health Alliance complies with all UCL Partners policies and procedures.
11. Ensure all local polices and guidelines within the division including UCL Health Alliance specific polices are written and updated in accordance with UCL Partners guidance and are effectively communicated to all relevant staff.
12. Act as a role model for openness and good communication by, for example, attending meetings throughout the NCL system and UCLP on a regular basis and providing advice, support and leadership within NCL Health Alliance.
13. Act as an ambassador for the organisation internally and either locally or nationally, as required, in relation to NCL Health Alliance work programmes or issues.
14. Act as the Lead Project Manager, where appropriate agreed work programmes in line with the organisations annual business plan.
15. Provide cover for peers when necessary and deputise for the other members of the NCL system where appropriate.
Financial and information management
16. Responsible for developing a realistic organisational budget and service delivery plan.
17. Accountable for managing the income and expenditure within budget.
18. At all times, ensuring financial control and the efficient and effective use of resources.
19. Identify and, where possible, pre-empt significant financial issues and lead the development of strategies to mitigate the risk. Escalate issues to the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Executive Officer, as appropriate, and seek further assistance as necessary.
20. Work closely and effectively with UCL Partners finance manager to ensure that budget statements and financial projections are current and accurate.
21. Lead on the development of business cases for significant system investments in line with the relevant investment policy. Ensure that before such cases are presented to the relevant organisational and system committees as necessary, that they have been endorsed by each relevant member organisation and have received relevant executive sponsorship.
22. Work with the system peers and information teams to develop systems and procedures to ensure accurate timely collection of data for production of regular monitoring reports for the division.
23. Routinely collect and review data from a variety of trust and wider sources to ensure that programme targets are monitored and achieved and that quality issues such as healthcare outcomes are monitored and addressed in a timely way, and develop work programmes considering best practice seen elsewhere.
24. Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities.
25. Responsible for system wide pathway development improvement programmes ensuring wide clinical and non-clinical engagement and engaging local stakeholders and patients in the process.
26. Responsible for ensuring that a values-based approach is taken to engaging and listening to staff across all issues and improvement work and that redesign work is fully participative.
27. To ensure that quality improvement methodology is used appropriately for transformation and improvement schemes.
28. Ensure effective communication across and throughout the NCL health alliance membership.
29. To actively promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning working in collaboration with colleagues and teams for the purposes of improvement.
30. To actively promote shared learning for the purposes of continuous improvement.
Specific system responsibilities
31. Operate effectively and flexibly in a changing and demanding environment, proactively engaging with stakeholders.
32. Lead and promote the development of integrating within and across systems and effectively manage working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
33. Nurture key relationships across the place and sector systems and be responsible for the development and maintenance of clinical and other networks.
34. Engage in shared planning and decision-making across the system participating consistently and constructively with partners in the sector, place-based partnerships and system collaboratives and ensuring open sharing of information and ensuring that appropriate delegations are in place to develop shared plans and priorities and reach shared decisions.
35. Engage and contribute to establishing collective responsibility with partners for delivery and improvement of services across various footprints including system and place. This may include place-based partnerships, system collaboratives or clinical networks helping to enable a shared understanding of delivery, supporting arrangements for working together to manage any risks to programmes, and contributing to a culture which supports continuous system improvement.
36. Ensure that relevant clinical input (e.g. through clinical networks and clinical senates) is enabled in building a case for change or in the development of services, to ensure that the benefits and the interdependency of any other clinical activity has been considered.
37. To work collaboratively to appropriately mitigate any service or financial risks for the system and maintain the quality of care provided to the population. This may include working with relevant regulatory bodies to understand the impact that the new service development may have on an individual organisations performance.
38. To ensure there is shared understanding of performance and the delivery of services at system level, Place or Sector, through developing shared business intelligence capacity to enable a common view of performance, risks and progress against set of objectives and to improve the overall population health.
39. To contribute and engage in a shared and agreed understanding with partners of which decision-making body is appropriate and boards have ensured that appropriate delegations are in place.
40. To engage openly with partners in a constructive manner to mitigate and address any risk and concerns/issues ensuring there are clear reporting lines and accountabilities established flowing from any joint working arrangement into the governance arrangements of NCL Health Alliance.
Other responsibilities:
- Be a core member of the UCLPartners executive leadership team and contribute to our partnership strategy and development of the organisation.
- Represent the UCLP and NCL Health Alliance in regional, national forums and networks.
- Make intermittent presentations to UCLPartners board and executive forum.
- Deputise for the chief executive as appropriate on provider collaborative matters.
- Provide visible leadership and role modelling in the development and maintenance of a positive culture, standards and values.
- Build a culture of partnership and collaboration: promote inclusivity, partnership and collaboration to consider and address local, regional and national priorities.
- Value diversity and ensuring equality in all that we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities include;
Leadership of delivery of the NCL Health Alliance including:
Operational and strategic planning responsibilities
1. As a senior leadership figure within UCL Partners contribute to the organisation's strategic corporate and improvement agendas.
2. To direct the activities of and provide senior leadership to NCL Health Alliance team and services delivered within the Care Group.
3. Be accountable for the provision of safe, effective and efficient project management across all agreed work programmes within the resources available.
4. Ensure that there is satisfactory system wide clinical engagement to drive forward establishment of structures and processes which ensure a high standard of patient safety and patient experience within the work programmes.
5. Escalate risks in quality and compliance to relevant member Executives and UCLP CEO where necessary.
6. Ensure systems are in place for delivery of plans identified through risks and other intelligence in a timely manner and that appropriate interventions are made to improve the safety and quality of service delivery and care.
7. Responsible for ensuring maintenance of a live and relevant risk register and establish and maintain clear mechanisms within NCL Health Alliance to ensure that this is reviewed regularly.
8. Responsible for planning, implementing and delivering the NCL Health Alliance work programmes in line with the agreed organisational objectives and policies through the development of the annual business plan.
9. Lead on the development of high-quality system business cases, in consultation with appropriate key stakeholders, for specific service developments or strategic investments within NCL Health Alliance and the NCL system.
10. Ensure that NCL Health Alliance complies with all UCL Partners policies and procedures.
11. Ensure all local polices and guidelines within the division including UCL Health Alliance specific polices are written and updated in accordance with UCL Partners guidance and are effectively communicated to all relevant staff.
12. Act as a role model for openness and good communication by, for example, attending meetings throughout the NCL system and UCLP on a regular basis and providing advice, support and leadership within NCL Health Alliance.
13. Act as an ambassador for the organisation internally and either locally or nationally, as required, in relation to NCL Health Alliance work programmes or issues.
14. Act as the Lead Project Manager, where appropriate agreed work programmes in line with the organisations annual business plan.
15. Provide cover for peers when necessary and deputise for the other members of the NCL system where appropriate.
Financial and information management
16. Responsible for developing a realistic organisational budget and service delivery plan.
17. Accountable for managing the income and expenditure within budget.
18. At all times, ensuring financial control and the efficient and effective use of resources.
19. Identify and, where possible, pre-empt significant financial issues and lead the development of strategies to mitigate the risk. Escalate issues to the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Executive Officer, as appropriate, and seek further assistance as necessary.
20. Work closely and effectively with UCL Partners finance manager to ensure that budget statements and financial projections are current and accurate.
21. Lead on the development of business cases for significant system investments in line with the relevant investment policy. Ensure that before such cases are presented to the relevant organisational and system committees as necessary, that they have been endorsed by each relevant member organisation and have received relevant executive sponsorship.
22. Work with the system peers and information teams to develop systems and procedures to ensure accurate timely collection of data for production of regular monitoring reports for the division.
23. Routinely collect and review data from a variety of trust and wider sources to ensure that programme targets are monitored and achieved and that quality issues such as healthcare outcomes are monitored and addressed in a timely way, and develop work programmes considering best practice seen elsewhere.
24. Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities.
25. Responsible for system wide pathway development improvement programmes ensuring wide clinical and non-clinical engagement and engaging local stakeholders and patients in the process.
26. Responsible for ensuring that a values-based approach is taken to engaging and listening to staff across all issues and improvement work and that redesign work is fully participative.
27. To ensure that quality improvement methodology is used appropriately for transformation and improvement schemes.
28. Ensure effective communication across and throughout the NCL health alliance membership.
29. To actively promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning working in collaboration with colleagues and teams for the purposes of improvement.
30. To actively promote shared learning for the purposes of continuous improvement.
Specific system responsibilities
31. Operate effectively and flexibly in a changing and demanding environment, proactively engaging with stakeholders.
32. Lead and promote the development of integrating within and across systems and effectively manage working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
33. Nurture key relationships across the place and sector systems and be responsible for the development and maintenance of clinical and other networks.
34. Engage in shared planning and decision-making across the system participating consistently and constructively with partners in the sector, place-based partnerships and system collaboratives and ensuring open sharing of information and ensuring that appropriate delegations are in place to develop shared plans and priorities and reach shared decisions.
35. Engage and contribute to establishing collective responsibility with partners for delivery and improvement of services across various footprints including system and place. This may include place-based partnerships, system collaboratives or clinical networks helping to enable a shared understanding of delivery, supporting arrangements for working together to manage any risks to programmes, and contributing to a culture which supports continuous system improvement.
36. Ensure that relevant clinical input (e.g. through clinical networks and clinical senates) is enabled in building a case for change or in the development of services, to ensure that the benefits and the interdependency of any other clinical activity has been considered.
37. To work collaboratively to appropriately mitigate any service or financial risks for the system and maintain the quality of care provided to the population. This may include working with relevant regulatory bodies to understand the impact that the new service development may have on an individual organisations performance.
38. To ensure there is shared understanding of performance and the delivery of services at system level, Place or Sector, through developing shared business intelligence capacity to enable a common view of performance, risks and progress against set of objectives and to improve the overall population health.
39. To contribute and engage in a shared and agreed understanding with partners of which decision-making body is appropriate and boards have ensured that appropriate delegations are in place.
40. To engage openly with partners in a constructive manner to mitigate and address any risk and concerns/issues ensuring there are clear reporting lines and accountabilities established flowing from any joint working arrangement into the governance arrangements of NCL Health Alliance.
Other responsibilities:
- Be a core member of the UCLPartners executive leadership team and contribute to our partnership strategy and development of the organisation.
- Represent the UCLP and NCL Health Alliance in regional, national forums and networks.
- Make intermittent presentations to UCLPartners board and executive forum.
- Deputise for the chief executive as appropriate on provider collaborative matters.
- Provide visible leadership and role modelling in the development and maintenance of a positive culture, standards and values.
- Build a culture of partnership and collaboration: promote inclusivity, partnership and collaboration to consider and address local, regional and national priorities.
- Value diversity and ensuring equality in all that we do.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- We are looking for a driven, experienced and collaborative health leader with exceptional values who will operate with high levels of transparency and authenticity.
- Significant management experience at a senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Demonstratable commitment to working at system level and the ability to mitigate any perceived or actual conflicts between organisational interests and system objectives.
- Educated to masters level (or equivalent) or experience of working at a senior level in stakeholder engagement including patient and public involvement.
- Understanding of the impact of health inequalities and wider determinants of health on the population, and commitment to tackling them.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Experience of working across agency and professional boundaries and collaborative and stakeholder working including linking with borough based integrated care partnerships.
- Experience of successful project leadership to deliver benefits at pace in complex environments.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Interpret highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, simplifying and tailoring information to relevant audiences,
- Experience of leading change in an open and inclusive way, with a natural ability to communicate with key stakeholders.
- Ability to draw together a range of disparate and complex information in order to identify options and make decisions.
- Forward-thinking, creative and dynamic, with strategic vision.
- A strong commitment to diverse and inclusive teams and principles.
- Grounded and inclusive leadership style.
- Excellent values with a commitment to commitment to reducing inequalities, prevention, population health management and integrated health and care services.
- Excellent team-working.
- Ability to challenge orthodoxy, presenting novel solutions.
- Commitment to the agreed financial principles across NCL, achieving financial sustainability and to openness and transparency.
- Ability to horizon scan and assess global partnership research and challenges and opportunities.
- Excellent communicator.
- Willingness to speak up and raise concerns, to feedback constructively on proposals and help continuously improve the way in which health and care is delivered in NCL.
- Ability to build trust and consensus and operate with diplomacy while supporting a culture of accountability and delivery.
- Ability to identify and develop areas of collaboration across diverse expertise.
- Ability to influence at a senior level in academic and healthcare leadership.
- Ability to work in a complex and rapidly-changing environment while maintaining focus on medium to long-term outcomes and real-world impact.
- Commitment to collective purpose and partnership working.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- We are looking for a driven, experienced and collaborative health leader with exceptional values who will operate with high levels of transparency and authenticity.
- Significant management experience at a senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Demonstratable commitment to working at system level and the ability to mitigate any perceived or actual conflicts between organisational interests and system objectives.
- Educated to masters level (or equivalent) or experience of working at a senior level in stakeholder engagement including patient and public involvement.
- Understanding of the impact of health inequalities and wider determinants of health on the population, and commitment to tackling them.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Experience of working across agency and professional boundaries and collaborative and stakeholder working including linking with borough based integrated care partnerships.
- Experience of successful project leadership to deliver benefits at pace in complex environments.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Interpret highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, simplifying and tailoring information to relevant audiences,
- Experience of leading change in an open and inclusive way, with a natural ability to communicate with key stakeholders.
- Ability to draw together a range of disparate and complex information in order to identify options and make decisions.
- Forward-thinking, creative and dynamic, with strategic vision.
- A strong commitment to diverse and inclusive teams and principles.
- Grounded and inclusive leadership style.
- Excellent values with a commitment to commitment to reducing inequalities, prevention, population health management and integrated health and care services.
- Excellent team-working.
- Ability to challenge orthodoxy, presenting novel solutions.
- Commitment to the agreed financial principles across NCL, achieving financial sustainability and to openness and transparency.
- Ability to horizon scan and assess global partnership research and challenges and opportunities.
- Excellent communicator.
- Willingness to speak up and raise concerns, to feedback constructively on proposals and help continuously improve the way in which health and care is delivered in NCL.
- Ability to build trust and consensus and operate with diplomacy while supporting a culture of accountability and delivery.
- Ability to identify and develop areas of collaboration across diverse expertise.
- Ability to influence at a senior level in academic and healthcare leadership.
- Ability to work in a complex and rapidly-changing environment while maintaining focus on medium to long-term outcomes and real-world impact.
- Commitment to collective purpose and partnership working.
Employer details
Employer name
UCLPartners
Address
U C L Partners
170 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7HA
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
UCLPartners
Address
U C L Partners
170 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7HA
Employer's website
Details
Date posted
30 November 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience highly competitive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
B0273-23-0020
Job locations
U C L Partners
170 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7HA