Job summary
Specialised services typically treat patients with cancers, genetic disorders or complex medical or surgical conditions, delivering cutting-edge care and catalysing innovation.
Specialised services are not available in every hospital due to delivery by specialist teams. They have traditionally been planned nationally by NHS England, who have begun delegating specialised commissioning to ICBs, aiming to reconnect care pathways based to a population-based care model. Within the East of England (EoE) in 22/23, NHSE identified ~90% of specialised activity suitable and ready for delegation.
The EoE Specialised Provider Collaborative (EoE SPC) is established in response to challenges in specialised services and national delegation, bringing together the seven largest providers of specialised services regionally (Norfolk and Norwich; East Suffolk and North Essex; Mid and South Essex; East and North Hertfordshire; Bedfordshire Hospital; Cambridge University Hospital and Royal Papworth), whilst also strengthening partnership connections.
Our ambition is to achieve the best outcomes for our population by delivering integrated, preventative, quality specialised care closer to home. Collaboratively we can intervene earlier, help prevent patients requiring complex care and deliver care locally where safe and appropriate, without compromising quality
Main duties of the job
A group of hospitals who provide many of the region's specialist services are collaborating to deliver specialist care in the East of England as a Specialised Provider Collaborative (EoE SPC). The EoE SPC is a major focus for region over the coming years, including:
- Work with our Joint Commissioning Committee for Specialised Services to repatriate specialised services for EoE patients provided outside the region.
- Greater access to specialised services including tackling inequalities in access.
- Support sustainability of new specialist hospitals including the Cambridge Children's Hospital and the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital
- Further extend the benefits of regional innovation to benefit more patients.
This senior role combines strategy, operational and clinical engagement, programme delivery and leadership across organisations. Responsibilities include:
- Delivering EoE SPC's business plans and setting strategic direction based on data and engagement with clinical, operational and corporate teams.
- Build and convene virtual teams to deliver programme plans.
- Build awareness of the EoE SPC, linking strategic and operational regional priorities.
- Deliver pathway changes to services based on engagement with commissioners and clinical leaders.
This post-holder will work alongside Executives, Directors, corporate operations and finance across the provider collaborative to deliver safe, quality and sustainable Specialised services for EoE patients.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 9th October 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 24th October 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 9th October 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 24th October 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Relevant Postgraduate qualification
Desirable
- Relevant professional registration
- MBA or equivalent management qualification
- Evidence of managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).
Experience
Essential
- Working at a senior level of management in an operational and/or strategic transformation for a provider, commissioning or relevant healthcare organisation.
- Taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions and business cases that are attractive to different parties.
- Identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with other organisations and maximising relations with relevant parties and services (from inception to completion through to alliance management).
- Working constructively with internal and external partners to create effective, sustainable and successful collaborations
- Managing large-scale complex programmes and projects at a senior management level using recognised methodology (e.g. Prince 2), including use of service improvement techniques, and tracking and monitoring their implementation. Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
- Design, develop and hold overarching responsibility for performance indicators to monitor project and programme delivery, and realising benefits.
- Managing programme and project budgets; knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation to ensure effective utilisation of resources.
- Working collaboratively with patients and senior clinicians across multi-disciplinary professions and services.
- Instigating, leading and managing change
- Reporting complex information and data- verbally, in papers and in presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Change management, negotiation and influencing internally and externally at all levels.
- Budgeting and resource allocation.
- Clinical and corporate governance.
- National policy and local implementation
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention and staff development including appraisals and performance management.
- Patient and public involvement.
- Innovation in approaches to patient care.
- People leadership
Desirable
- Working knowledge of some specialties that the collaborative is prioritising (cardiothoracic, cancer, neuro, paediatrics, burns/plastics)
Skills
Essential
- Leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, and obtaining, providing and presenting information.
- Managing multifaceted, complex projects and programmes to time and budget.
- Communicating highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences; meticulous attention to detail
- Thinking clearly, solving and pre-empting problems, reaching decisions, prioritising and recommending appropriate action through the assessment and presentation of relevant and complex information in an accessible form.
- Translating strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engaging others in strategy and planning.
- Building positive relationships, influencing senior colleagues and other stakeholders including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Negotiation and diplomacy
- Inspiring confidence and trust, commanding respect and creating a sense of community in teams. Ability to motivate and empower others as a positive and effective team worker.
- Representing at local, regional and national forums
- Adapting during periods of change.
- Work autonomously, managing and prioritising workload, meeting tight deadlines and working under own initiative.
- Understanding of information governance.
- Using ICT (including Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and project management tools.
- Ability to translate complex, sensitive issues and problems into plans which are clearly articulated and understandable to others.
- Able to deliver flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems and challenges.
- Analyse, present and tailor complex data and information to a wide range of audiences
- Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in working with complex policy and diverse interest groups.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
- Highly motivated and resourceful.
- Able to learn rapidly, and take in a wide range of information, distilling out the key points into clear succinct well-argued documents.
- Able to maintain high standards of diplomacy and understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Able to manage competing demands and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.
- Able to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels.
- Ability to contribute effectively.
- A clear communicator
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable
- Ability to work flexible hours.
- Experience of major and critical incidents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Relevant Postgraduate qualification
Desirable
- Relevant professional registration
- MBA or equivalent management qualification
- Evidence of managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).
Experience
Essential
- Working at a senior level of management in an operational and/or strategic transformation for a provider, commissioning or relevant healthcare organisation.
- Taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions and business cases that are attractive to different parties.
- Identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with other organisations and maximising relations with relevant parties and services (from inception to completion through to alliance management).
- Working constructively with internal and external partners to create effective, sustainable and successful collaborations
- Managing large-scale complex programmes and projects at a senior management level using recognised methodology (e.g. Prince 2), including use of service improvement techniques, and tracking and monitoring their implementation. Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
- Design, develop and hold overarching responsibility for performance indicators to monitor project and programme delivery, and realising benefits.
- Managing programme and project budgets; knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation to ensure effective utilisation of resources.
- Working collaboratively with patients and senior clinicians across multi-disciplinary professions and services.
- Instigating, leading and managing change
- Reporting complex information and data- verbally, in papers and in presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Change management, negotiation and influencing internally and externally at all levels.
- Budgeting and resource allocation.
- Clinical and corporate governance.
- National policy and local implementation
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention and staff development including appraisals and performance management.
- Patient and public involvement.
- Innovation in approaches to patient care.
- People leadership
Desirable
- Working knowledge of some specialties that the collaborative is prioritising (cardiothoracic, cancer, neuro, paediatrics, burns/plastics)
Skills
Essential
- Leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, and obtaining, providing and presenting information.
- Managing multifaceted, complex projects and programmes to time and budget.
- Communicating highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences; meticulous attention to detail
- Thinking clearly, solving and pre-empting problems, reaching decisions, prioritising and recommending appropriate action through the assessment and presentation of relevant and complex information in an accessible form.
- Translating strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engaging others in strategy and planning.
- Building positive relationships, influencing senior colleagues and other stakeholders including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Negotiation and diplomacy
- Inspiring confidence and trust, commanding respect and creating a sense of community in teams. Ability to motivate and empower others as a positive and effective team worker.
- Representing at local, regional and national forums
- Adapting during periods of change.
- Work autonomously, managing and prioritising workload, meeting tight deadlines and working under own initiative.
- Understanding of information governance.
- Using ICT (including Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and project management tools.
- Ability to translate complex, sensitive issues and problems into plans which are clearly articulated and understandable to others.
- Able to deliver flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems and challenges.
- Analyse, present and tailor complex data and information to a wide range of audiences
- Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in working with complex policy and diverse interest groups.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
- Highly motivated and resourceful.
- Able to learn rapidly, and take in a wide range of information, distilling out the key points into clear succinct well-argued documents.
- Able to maintain high standards of diplomacy and understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Able to manage competing demands and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.
- Able to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels.
- Ability to contribute effectively.
- A clear communicator
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable
- Ability to work flexible hours.
- Experience of major and critical incidents
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Employer's website
https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)