Job summary
/We are looking for an experienced strategic leader to help us deliver our ambitious and exciting plans for women's and children's services across South Thames and the South East of England. The Evelina London Clinical Group is part of Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Trust and leads the delivery of women's and children's services across the Trust including across our Royal Brompton and community sites. The Clinical Group operates with autonomy both operationally and strategically but within the context of the bigger Trust.
To lead the development and delivery of the strategy and vision for women's and children's services you will need to be able to work across multiple complex agendas developing strong partnerships across our system including with relevant ICBs, our academic partners and the Guys and St Thomas' Foundation.
As Programme Director for the Children's Hospital Programme you will have the opportunity to lead a major capital and transformation programme helping to make our strategic ambitions for specialist children's services a reality.
You will be a senior member of the Evelina London Executive providing leadership across the Clinical Group both within your areas of responsibilities and beyond ensuring there is a focus on long term delivery and strategic service development. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing and friendly team who are committed to building clinical academic excellence across our services.
Main duties of the job
This Director of Strategy is a senior member of the Evelina London Executive Committee which has devolved responsibility for the operational delivery and strategic development of Evelina London Women's & Children's Healthcare. The post holder is a member of the Evelina London Board, and of various Trust-wide executive committees, and represents Evelina London on a range of partnership bodies. Children's services are one of Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust's strategic priorities. The post leads across the Clinical Group's strategic agenda, across a wide range of external partnerships, and across clinical and academic missions. The portfolio is wide-ranging, including clinical services strategy, , research and innovation and fundraising. In addition to leadership of their portfolio, the post holder is expected to lead on specific initiatives across the Clinical Group, as a member of the senior leadership team including the Programme Director role for the Children's Hospital Programme.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Evelina London is part ofGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead the development of Evelina Londons strategic direction & plans, ensuring that this takes due account of the Trusts wider strategic plans, the external context, and internal strengths and capabilities, and is refreshed Ensure alignment with other Clinical Groups as appropriate.
- With the Evelina London Medical Director and the Directorate Management Teams, lead the development of Evelina Londons clinical and academic strategies to build upon Evelina Londons strengths to enable Evelina London to achieve its vision of becoming a world class clinical and academic
- Set the framework for clinical and academic strategy development within the Evelina London clinical directorates to ensure robustness and consistency, keeping planning systems and processes under review, and establishing transparent prioritisation mechanisms where
- Set the framework for the development of enabling strategies and plans, ensuring alignment and consistency across the Clinical Groups functions. Provide guidance and support to functional leads as appropriate.
- Ensure that Evelina London plays an effective and leading role in the development of local place-based partnerships and service transformation programmes, working in collaboration with partners to establish new service, business and operating models that will deliver improved value for women, children, young people and their families and long term system sustainability and In particular to ensure that Evelina Londons input to Partnership Southwark and Lambeth Together is co-ordinated and impactful.
- Act as Programme Director for the Childrens Hospital Programme (CHP), a £200m capital development programme developing an OBC and associated plans for a new childrens hospital adjacent to Evelina London, working with the GSTT COO as Senior Responsible Officer and leading the CHP team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead the development of Evelina Londons strategic direction & plans, ensuring that this takes due account of the Trusts wider strategic plans, the external context, and internal strengths and capabilities, and is refreshed Ensure alignment with other Clinical Groups as appropriate.
- With the Evelina London Medical Director and the Directorate Management Teams, lead the development of Evelina Londons clinical and academic strategies to build upon Evelina Londons strengths to enable Evelina London to achieve its vision of becoming a world class clinical and academic
- Set the framework for clinical and academic strategy development within the Evelina London clinical directorates to ensure robustness and consistency, keeping planning systems and processes under review, and establishing transparent prioritisation mechanisms where
- Set the framework for the development of enabling strategies and plans, ensuring alignment and consistency across the Clinical Groups functions. Provide guidance and support to functional leads as appropriate.
- Ensure that Evelina London plays an effective and leading role in the development of local place-based partnerships and service transformation programmes, working in collaboration with partners to establish new service, business and operating models that will deliver improved value for women, children, young people and their families and long term system sustainability and In particular to ensure that Evelina Londons input to Partnership Southwark and Lambeth Together is co-ordinated and impactful.
- Act as Programme Director for the Childrens Hospital Programme (CHP), a £200m capital development programme developing an OBC and associated plans for a new childrens hospital adjacent to Evelina London, working with the GSTT COO as Senior Responsible Officer and leading the CHP team.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant senior management experience in a variety of health and/or social care settings with evidence of effective partnership working and multi stakeholder engagement
- Experience of working in a highly political environment, in which national and local imperatives are potentially in conflict and addressing different stakeholders appropriately
- Evidence of achievement of leading change through people and influence and securing high performance by effective collaborative partnership working and empowering others
Skills
Essential
- Ability to successfully analyse complex issues and situations, provide logical decisions, and reconcile competing interests, providing practical and creative solutions to problems through collaborative working to promote corporate vision
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands, including an evidenced approach to robust programme management skills
Personal style and behaviour
Essential
- Evidence of understanding of own strengths and limitations and self-impact on others
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant senior management experience in a variety of health and/or social care settings with evidence of effective partnership working and multi stakeholder engagement
- Experience of working in a highly political environment, in which national and local imperatives are potentially in conflict and addressing different stakeholders appropriately
- Evidence of achievement of leading change through people and influence and securing high performance by effective collaborative partnership working and empowering others
Skills
Essential
- Ability to successfully analyse complex issues and situations, provide logical decisions, and reconcile competing interests, providing practical and creative solutions to problems through collaborative working to promote corporate vision
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands, including an evidenced approach to robust programme management skills
Personal style and behaviour
Essential
- Evidence of understanding of own strengths and limitations and self-impact on others
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).
