Job summary
DSFS Ltd are looking into recruiting the right person into the role of Assistant Director ICS Procurement Delivery, The Assistant Director will work across the ICS and surrounding partners to lead on development and implementation of a collaborative benefits delivery programme and wider collaborative procurement strategy, acting as a focal point for joint working in Derbyshire and beyond. They will be a recognised procurement professional with experience providing strategic advice and, critically delivery of results through existing teams, in conjunction with the SRO to all partner organisations.
Main duties of the job
This role takes responsibility for translating the commercial vision for developing procurements approach nationally, to ensure the success of collaborative procurement in Derbyshire / partner ICS's that delivers efficiencies in our contracts, consumables, people, systems and processes collaboratively. This is about building more out of the teams we have by using their expertise differently in a collaborative space, while recognising the need for local differences. The post holder will also line manage the ICS central team in any Hub and Spoke type arrangement (along with any wider collaborative appointments in future) and will deputise for the Director of Commercial and Strategy (SRO) at National, Regional and ICS Meetings as required to build pace and presence.
About us
Offering a competitive package, Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Benefits include matched pension contributions up to 8%, generous leave and support benefits package, easy access mental health support, long service awards and flexible work from home / office arrangements. For staff currently employed in the NHS were happy to recognise your length of service towards your annual leave and similar accrued benefits.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download full job description to review deliverable responsibilities for this exciting position.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download full job description to review deliverable responsibilities for this exciting position.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oMaster's Degree or similar- equivalent experience.
- oCIP's qualified or relevant equivalent experience (demonstrable).
- oExperience at a corporate level of working with Boards /NED's.
- oExperience of successfully driving change and transformational programmes.
- oUnderstanding of organisational cultural impacts on performance and productivity
- oProvision of services in the healthcare industry in a managerial role, able to demonstrate a good understanding of operational delivery
- oAble to demonstrate a sound understanding of a variety of NHS sectors
- oProof of successful strategy development and implementation
- oAble to create/shape innovative strategic vision for the best possible long term benefit of the organisation and patients
- oExceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- oDemonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- oProven track record of translating strategy into effective delivery.
- oDemonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- oDemonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- oAbility to make decisions autonomously, when required on difficult issues.
Desirable
- oLeadership Qualification
- oExperience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- oExperience of NHS and private sector Board support and engagement
- oExcellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
- oSignificant Senior management experience in a healthcare setting with speciality knowledge across a range of disciplines
- oFinancial management and business management skills including the ability to set and manage budgets on a corporate level.
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience at a senior management level.
- oExperience of leading service improvement projects and complex organisational change, whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality
- oEvidence of appropriate relevant professional development
- oDemonstrable experience of successful business planning and development of robust business cases.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oCorporate responsibility for policy implementation and service development across a range of specialist services
- oInvolvement at a leadership level on issues related to clinical governance, monitoring and standard setting, including risk management and health and safety
- oExceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- oUnderstanding of the dynamics within a business arena and balance against political environment.
- oHorizon scanning skills using a range of tools and techniques
- oAble to successfully engineer innovative solutions
- oAble to make compelling evidence-based arguments to persuade key stakeholders of the need to test new approaches to health and care delivery
- oExperience of working on a strategic task and finish project at a regional or national level
- oSignificant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Desirable
- oExperience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- oExcellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oInclusive and developmental personal style and approach
- oInspiring and motivational
- oDynamic with personal impact
- oIntegrity
- oTenacity
- oEmotional resilience
- oEffective under pressure
- oPortrays self-belief, self-awareness and drive for improvement
- oResourceful
- o Highly professional role model
- oAbility to use professional mediation to reach solutions
- oAbility to build excellent working relationships with a range of individuals and all levels and from all specialities
- oAbility to work across sites
- oAbility to work extra hours at reasonable short notice
- oAccess to vehicle/travel between sites in the Chesterfield/Derbyshire area
Desirable
- oCommitment to values and principles of the NHS and Leading the DSFS Way
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- oMaster's Degree or similar- equivalent experience.
- oCIP's qualified or relevant equivalent experience (demonstrable).
- oExperience at a corporate level of working with Boards /NED's.
- oExperience of successfully driving change and transformational programmes.
- oUnderstanding of organisational cultural impacts on performance and productivity
- oProvision of services in the healthcare industry in a managerial role, able to demonstrate a good understanding of operational delivery
- oAble to demonstrate a sound understanding of a variety of NHS sectors
- oProof of successful strategy development and implementation
- oAble to create/shape innovative strategic vision for the best possible long term benefit of the organisation and patients
- oExceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- oDemonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- oProven track record of translating strategy into effective delivery.
- oDemonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- oDemonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- oAbility to make decisions autonomously, when required on difficult issues.
Desirable
- oLeadership Qualification
- oExperience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- oExperience of NHS and private sector Board support and engagement
- oExcellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
- oSignificant Senior management experience in a healthcare setting with speciality knowledge across a range of disciplines
- oFinancial management and business management skills including the ability to set and manage budgets on a corporate level.
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience at a senior management level.
- oExperience of leading service improvement projects and complex organisational change, whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality
- oEvidence of appropriate relevant professional development
- oDemonstrable experience of successful business planning and development of robust business cases.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- oCorporate responsibility for policy implementation and service development across a range of specialist services
- oInvolvement at a leadership level on issues related to clinical governance, monitoring and standard setting, including risk management and health and safety
- oExceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- oUnderstanding of the dynamics within a business arena and balance against political environment.
- oHorizon scanning skills using a range of tools and techniques
- oAble to successfully engineer innovative solutions
- oAble to make compelling evidence-based arguments to persuade key stakeholders of the need to test new approaches to health and care delivery
- oExperience of working on a strategic task and finish project at a regional or national level
- oSignificant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Desirable
- oExperience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- oExcellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oInclusive and developmental personal style and approach
- oInspiring and motivational
- oDynamic with personal impact
- oIntegrity
- oTenacity
- oEmotional resilience
- oEffective under pressure
- oPortrays self-belief, self-awareness and drive for improvement
- oResourceful
- o Highly professional role model
- oAbility to use professional mediation to reach solutions
- oAbility to build excellent working relationships with a range of individuals and all levels and from all specialities
- oAbility to work across sites
- oAbility to work extra hours at reasonable short notice
- oAccess to vehicle/travel between sites in the Chesterfield/Derbyshire area
Desirable
- oCommitment to values and principles of the NHS and Leading the DSFS Way
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.
