Job summary
Senior Strategy & Partnerships Manager - Band 8A - 37.5 hours, Permanent
An exciting opportunity has arisen fora highly motivated individual to support strategic & business planning and delivery of the Trust strategy across Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and its sister hospital, Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will lead a small team, responsible for supporting Executive Senior Responsible Officers with the delivery of the Trusts' key strategic priorities. They will ensure capacity is prioritised to deliver Trust objectives and provide oversight through formal progress reports to Executive Teams.
They will be a key member of staff and will be expected to have a strong value base to promote the culture and values of both organisations in all activities and recognise the role that they play as an individual in improving the provision of services to the populations served by the Trusts.
Interviews Tue 28th Nov or Friday 1st Dec
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to provide senior strategic and planning support to clinical divisions and corporate services across the two Trusts. Key responsibilities will include:
- developing, delivering and appropriately monitoring the benefits of the Trusts' strategies
- supporting the formation and monitoring of the Trusts' short, medium, and long-term plans
- overseeing the capital planning process across both Trusts
- providing service development support to divisions and other corporate directorates to enable delivery of the Trusts' strategic and operational objectives within available resources
- taking the lead on specific priority projects / programmes of work
- developing collaborative partnerships across Stockport, Tameside, and Greater Manchester.
About us
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Strategy:
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to ensure an appropriate framework is in place for continuous development and review of Trust strategies, enabling strategies and business plans across the two Trusts.
- Support the development, delivery and monitoring of the Trusts Strategic Plans and realisation of its strategic goals.
- Coordinate support from within the team to review and assist services in developing strategic plans, ensuring that robust impact assessments and necessary engagement is undertaken.
- To support in the production of progress reports on the delivery of strategies
- Provide practical support to teams within the Trust in terms of helping them to understand the Trust strategy and their role in business planning.
- Facilitate engagement sessions and workshops with key stakeholders that may be required.
- Support the planning, development and implementation of clinical service strategies and business plans. This will include undertaking insightful analysis, advising on interdependencies, identifying risks and appropriate mitigations to address any issues identified in keeping plans on track.
- Develop briefings on significant national and local health and social care policy developments.
- Support the Head of Strategy to ensure key risks to strategy delivery are proactively identified, escalated appropriately, and addressed with robust mitigations.
Business Planning:
- Support implementation of the Trusts Joint Planning Framework.
- Champion a planning culture and ownership of plans at all levels.
- Provide expert guidance on complex planning issues.
- Coordinate specific aspects of the Trusts annual planning framework, including collating information and support for annual submissions (and any ad-hoc requests) as required by the GM Integrated Care system and NHS England and Improvement.
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to coordinate the alignment of corporate-level strategy and planning with divisional and service-level planning, ensuring sufficient resource from the team is prioritised across the two Trusts.
- Where necessary, deputise for the Head of Strategy & Partnerships in supporting the operational planning process across the Trusts.
Business Cases:
- Oversee governance of the business case processes across the Trusts, including reporting on progress and exceptions to senior management teams and Board.
- Provide support and advice to clinical and corporate teams to develop clinical service change proposals and business plans.
- Support the preparation of investment proposals in response to national and local initiatives and initiate action to deliver approved schemes.
- Provide project management support and an active role in supporting divisions in the development of robust business cases.
- Support divisions to develop high quality business plans and business cases through training and skills development.
- Lead meetings and hold colleagues to account through a programme management approach, ensuring agreed timescales are met. Ensure that regular reports are produced identifying progress against project plans and highlighting any significant risks, identifying areas of poor performance / project performance, as well as managing and implementing any remedial action required as directed.
- Coordinate and monitor the evaluation process of business cases and other major projects to ensure the delivery and achievement of planned outcomes and benefits.
Partnership working:
- Provide programme support for Stockports Provider Partnership, to ensure strong collaboration between health and care providers in the locality to deliver shared priorities.
- Working closely with the Trust leads, co-ordinate activities with partners for strategic planning projects and implementation including data and service analysis.
- Support the two Trusts to develop partnership initiatives to improve services and generate sustainability.
- Work with a range of key stakeholders including commissioners, public stakeholders, regulators and independent clinical experts, aligning to best practice.
- Support specific partnership work as identified by the Head of Strategy & Partnerships.
Capital Programme:
- Coordinate the joint process for capital planning across the two trusts.
- Implement programme management and governance assurance processes to support delivery of agreed capital priorities and programmes in line with agreed objectives.
- Ensure that adequate support is assigned from within the team to manage capital bids and prioritisation.
- Support the Deputy Director of Strategy & Partnerships to ensure clear oversight of the capital planning process, including providing progress reports to executive teams and Committees.
Tenders:
- Support the processes in place for monitoring and responding to tender opportunities. Provide project management support and bid writing expertise to support divisions in the development of robust tender bids.
- Coordinate the process for the identification and coordination of new tender opportunities.
- Act as project management support on specific tender bid submissions.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Planning & Organising
- Organise and plan own day-to-day workload or activities in order to support the timely delivery of agreed projects and objectives.
- Identify and resolve deviations from expected interventions / projects in order to deliver key milestones and reporting deadlines.
- Contribute to ensuring relevant internal and external governance and reporting arrangements are met.
Communications
- Responsible for communicating key information and leading engagement activities with all staff relating to the Trust strategy.
- Ensure that appropriate staff and teams are actively involved in key business planning activities and understand their roles and responsibilities.
- Present information in a clear and transparent way, suitable for a wider audience including assurance committees.
- Communicate highly complex or sensitive information clearly and concisely to staff at all levels of the organisation and external key stakeholders. This involves the ability to present to a variety of audiences, including groups with conflicting and varying views to establish agreement and co-operation regarding complex or sensitive issues.
- Translate national policy relating to NHS strategy and annual planning activities required in a form which is meaningful to all staff groups using a variety of communication styles to achieve this.
- Produce written documentation, including status reports, information/data/reports as required for organisation at Programme and Executive level.
Responsibility for Patient Care
- Assist patients / service users / carers / relatives during incidental contacts.
- Where the delivery of projects and key Trust objectives involves significant changes to service provision, ensure appropriate user engagement is carried out in line with Trust Policy.
- On occasions when visiting or working in clinical areas and interacting with patients / service users / carers / relatives ensure liaison and appropriate notice is agreed with the Nurse in Charge / Department Leads in advance to co-ordinate such activities.
Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources
- The post holder will take responsibility for managing the Strategy & Partnerships team and associated resources.
- Support divisions and other corporate directorates to enable delivery of the Trusts strategic and operational objectives within available resources.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation
- Observe the provisions of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.
- Support the development, delivery and monitoring of the Trusts Strategic Plans
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to maintain policies and frameworks for strategy and planning.
Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership
- Deputise for the Head of Strategy & Partnerships and the Deputy Director of Strategy & Partnerships on appropriate matters as required.
- Line manage the Strategy & Partnerships team, supporting personal development and delivery of business objectives.
Responsibilities for Teaching and Training
- To participate and, on occasions lead, any training and development required to ensure a sustainable knowledge base with regards to strategy and business planning activities across the Trust.
- Coach, mentor and teach business planning and business case development skills to relevant staff at all levels
Working conditions:
The role is administrative based in a hybrid working pattern, based primarily at Tameside General Hospital, as well as support teams at Stockport NHS FT and working with our independent sector partner to deliver the new service in Denton.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Strategy:
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to ensure an appropriate framework is in place for continuous development and review of Trust strategies, enabling strategies and business plans across the two Trusts.
- Support the development, delivery and monitoring of the Trusts Strategic Plans and realisation of its strategic goals.
- Coordinate support from within the team to review and assist services in developing strategic plans, ensuring that robust impact assessments and necessary engagement is undertaken.
- To support in the production of progress reports on the delivery of strategies
- Provide practical support to teams within the Trust in terms of helping them to understand the Trust strategy and their role in business planning.
- Facilitate engagement sessions and workshops with key stakeholders that may be required.
- Support the planning, development and implementation of clinical service strategies and business plans. This will include undertaking insightful analysis, advising on interdependencies, identifying risks and appropriate mitigations to address any issues identified in keeping plans on track.
- Develop briefings on significant national and local health and social care policy developments.
- Support the Head of Strategy to ensure key risks to strategy delivery are proactively identified, escalated appropriately, and addressed with robust mitigations.
Business Planning:
- Support implementation of the Trusts Joint Planning Framework.
- Champion a planning culture and ownership of plans at all levels.
- Provide expert guidance on complex planning issues.
- Coordinate specific aspects of the Trusts annual planning framework, including collating information and support for annual submissions (and any ad-hoc requests) as required by the GM Integrated Care system and NHS England and Improvement.
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to coordinate the alignment of corporate-level strategy and planning with divisional and service-level planning, ensuring sufficient resource from the team is prioritised across the two Trusts.
- Where necessary, deputise for the Head of Strategy & Partnerships in supporting the operational planning process across the Trusts.
Business Cases:
- Oversee governance of the business case processes across the Trusts, including reporting on progress and exceptions to senior management teams and Board.
- Provide support and advice to clinical and corporate teams to develop clinical service change proposals and business plans.
- Support the preparation of investment proposals in response to national and local initiatives and initiate action to deliver approved schemes.
- Provide project management support and an active role in supporting divisions in the development of robust business cases.
- Support divisions to develop high quality business plans and business cases through training and skills development.
- Lead meetings and hold colleagues to account through a programme management approach, ensuring agreed timescales are met. Ensure that regular reports are produced identifying progress against project plans and highlighting any significant risks, identifying areas of poor performance / project performance, as well as managing and implementing any remedial action required as directed.
- Coordinate and monitor the evaluation process of business cases and other major projects to ensure the delivery and achievement of planned outcomes and benefits.
Partnership working:
- Provide programme support for Stockports Provider Partnership, to ensure strong collaboration between health and care providers in the locality to deliver shared priorities.
- Working closely with the Trust leads, co-ordinate activities with partners for strategic planning projects and implementation including data and service analysis.
- Support the two Trusts to develop partnership initiatives to improve services and generate sustainability.
- Work with a range of key stakeholders including commissioners, public stakeholders, regulators and independent clinical experts, aligning to best practice.
- Support specific partnership work as identified by the Head of Strategy & Partnerships.
Capital Programme:
- Coordinate the joint process for capital planning across the two trusts.
- Implement programme management and governance assurance processes to support delivery of agreed capital priorities and programmes in line with agreed objectives.
- Ensure that adequate support is assigned from within the team to manage capital bids and prioritisation.
- Support the Deputy Director of Strategy & Partnerships to ensure clear oversight of the capital planning process, including providing progress reports to executive teams and Committees.
Tenders:
- Support the processes in place for monitoring and responding to tender opportunities. Provide project management support and bid writing expertise to support divisions in the development of robust tender bids.
- Coordinate the process for the identification and coordination of new tender opportunities.
- Act as project management support on specific tender bid submissions.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Planning & Organising
- Organise and plan own day-to-day workload or activities in order to support the timely delivery of agreed projects and objectives.
- Identify and resolve deviations from expected interventions / projects in order to deliver key milestones and reporting deadlines.
- Contribute to ensuring relevant internal and external governance and reporting arrangements are met.
Communications
- Responsible for communicating key information and leading engagement activities with all staff relating to the Trust strategy.
- Ensure that appropriate staff and teams are actively involved in key business planning activities and understand their roles and responsibilities.
- Present information in a clear and transparent way, suitable for a wider audience including assurance committees.
- Communicate highly complex or sensitive information clearly and concisely to staff at all levels of the organisation and external key stakeholders. This involves the ability to present to a variety of audiences, including groups with conflicting and varying views to establish agreement and co-operation regarding complex or sensitive issues.
- Translate national policy relating to NHS strategy and annual planning activities required in a form which is meaningful to all staff groups using a variety of communication styles to achieve this.
- Produce written documentation, including status reports, information/data/reports as required for organisation at Programme and Executive level.
Responsibility for Patient Care
- Assist patients / service users / carers / relatives during incidental contacts.
- Where the delivery of projects and key Trust objectives involves significant changes to service provision, ensure appropriate user engagement is carried out in line with Trust Policy.
- On occasions when visiting or working in clinical areas and interacting with patients / service users / carers / relatives ensure liaison and appropriate notice is agreed with the Nurse in Charge / Department Leads in advance to co-ordinate such activities.
Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources
- The post holder will take responsibility for managing the Strategy & Partnerships team and associated resources.
- Support divisions and other corporate directorates to enable delivery of the Trusts strategic and operational objectives within available resources.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation
- Observe the provisions of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.
- Support the development, delivery and monitoring of the Trusts Strategic Plans
- Support the Head of Strategy & Partnerships to maintain policies and frameworks for strategy and planning.
Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership
- Deputise for the Head of Strategy & Partnerships and the Deputy Director of Strategy & Partnerships on appropriate matters as required.
- Line manage the Strategy & Partnerships team, supporting personal development and delivery of business objectives.
Responsibilities for Teaching and Training
- To participate and, on occasions lead, any training and development required to ensure a sustainable knowledge base with regards to strategy and business planning activities across the Trust.
- Coach, mentor and teach business planning and business case development skills to relevant staff at all levels
Working conditions:
The role is administrative based in a hybrid working pattern, based primarily at Tameside General Hospital, as well as support teams at Stockport NHS FT and working with our independent sector partner to deliver the new service in Denton.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to Masters degree level or evidence of sound intellectual ability and ongoing personal development at management level
- oRecognised post-graduate management qualification or equivalent experience, e.g. PRINCE2, MSP (Practitioner Level)
- oExtensive knowledge of managing within an NHS healthcare setting
- oStrong understanding of potential service improvements in health care
- oExperience of Strategy development
- oExperience of Business Case development
- oExperience of bidding and submitting tenders
- oExperience of working in collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders across a health and social care economy.
- oExperience of working with multidisciplinary teams including medical staff
- oExperience and commitment to quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
- oStaff & Budget Management experience
- oSuccess in achieving service change and implementing complex projects
- oExperience of report writing and interpreting national policy issues for local plans
- oExperience of managing or supporting delivery of projects and programmes in a healthcare environment
Desirable
- oUp to date with relevant national guidance on NHS management issues
- oDisplays a problem solving and a 'can do' attitude towards any situation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to Masters degree level or evidence of sound intellectual ability and ongoing personal development at management level
- oRecognised post-graduate management qualification or equivalent experience, e.g. PRINCE2, MSP (Practitioner Level)
- oExtensive knowledge of managing within an NHS healthcare setting
- oStrong understanding of potential service improvements in health care
- oExperience of Strategy development
- oExperience of Business Case development
- oExperience of bidding and submitting tenders
- oExperience of working in collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders across a health and social care economy.
- oExperience of working with multidisciplinary teams including medical staff
- oExperience and commitment to quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
- oStaff & Budget Management experience
- oSuccess in achieving service change and implementing complex projects
- oExperience of report writing and interpreting national policy issues for local plans
- oExperience of managing or supporting delivery of projects and programmes in a healthcare environment
Desirable
- oUp to date with relevant national guidance on NHS management issues
- oDisplays a problem solving and a 'can do' attitude towards any situation
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).
