Band 8D Associate Director of Strategy

Job description

Job responsibilities

Delivery of a portfolio of large scale Group wide strategy programmes

1. Lead the development of strategic initiatives as requested by GEMM and/or the Board.
2. Be accountable for the development, delivery and evaluation of a portfolio of Group wide strategic initiatives working closely with the Group functions, Business Units and other stakeholders.
3. Ensure the delivery of programmes and projects to the expected quality outcomes and budget performance in accordance with agreed critical milestones
4. Lead on strategic initiatives that involve service transformation and partnership working across the North Central London ICS
5. Lead on the development of business cases for major capital developments, including identifying third party support and funding. Manage the approvals process with the ICS, NHSE/I and DH where relevant.
6. Ensure patient and staff engagement and involvement in all aspects of the planning, delivery and evaluation of service improvement projects.
7. Report on progress to the Group executive and Board on delivery of proposed service models and how delivery will be managed through challenging financial constraints.

Leadership of Strategy Programmes Management

1. Operationally lead and manage the Trusts priority strategy programmes, as directed by the Chief Transformation Officer.

1. Plan, coordinate and Chair meetings as part of the strategy programme management process, which includes communicating highly complex and sensitive information.

1. Provide assurance to Executives and to Group Executive Committees that strategy programmes are progressing in accordance with expectations and that stakeholders are engaged.

1. Manage third party suppliers delivering service improvement projects within the Trust ensuring value for money.

1. Manage the overall scope, objectives and priorities for the strategy programmes as requirements evolve

1. Oversee and QA development of briefs, templates and also business cases (where appropriate) for relevant programmes.

1. Be flexible and look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to deliver required outcomes

1. Present sensitive and sometimes controversial information to diverse audiences in a constructive professional manner eliciting engagement and strategies for moving issues forward rapidly.

1. Develop collaborative partnerships across the local integrated care system

1. Work closely with all stakeholders on securing support and engagement with the programme, influence and work through individuals from other teams to deliver

1. Understand complex and potentially competing stakeholder requirements and respond to them

1. Manage stakeholder expectations and challenge unrealistic demands constructively

1. Allocate resources, anticipating changing requirements that may impact work delivery

Prioritisation and Horizon scanning

1. Work alongside the Chief Transformation Officer to develop and work to a robust approach to prioritisation. Support the Group to prioritise the Strategy Programmes and Projects based on those that deliver the greatest value.
2. Use data and wider information to identify opportunities for the organisation and inform strategic priorities, ensuring data is robust, evidenced, and caveated where appropriate
3. Establish an approach to effectively measuring ROI/benefits delivery in order to support effective prioritisation decisions.

Quality Assurance

1. Ensure the Group has a robust approach to Quality Assurance of all strategy programmes and projects.
2. Support the Chief Transformation Officer to prepare and present papers, as requested.
3. Responsible for ensuring all strategy programmes and projects have completed a risk and quality impact assessment and that all relevant actions are identified and in place to mitigate risk to the service.
4. Advise and monitor quality outputs as a result of service reconfiguration ensuring that all changes implemented deliver to the agree and national performance indicators.

Communication & Engagement

1. Engage a wide range of stakeholders across the Group including Group Executives, Divisional Directors and their management teams, other Corporate leaders and their teams to ensure strategy programmes are delivered in the most effective way utilising the skills and expertise of multidisciplinary teams
2. Engage with the Organisational Development team, the Clinical Practice Groups team, the QI team, and others to ensure that strategy programmes are resourced and supported in the most effective way to ensure successful delivery of the outcomes and benefits.
3. Engage with commissioners and system partners in order to collaboratively deliver improved value for NCL patients.
4. Work with the Royal Free Charity to develop a joint strategic programme (where appropriate) and support joint working and fundraising.
5. Responsible for developing and maintaining a consistent and clear communication strategy, which keeps the Group updated and engaged in the priority programmes and projects

Leadership and Line Management

1. Provide leadership in strategy across the Group, deploying team skills and resources to effectively deliver against priorities
2. Provide Line Management to the Strategy team ensuring a culture of development and support in order to build a high performing team
3. Build a culture that fosters team members to work collaboratively, autonomously, feeling empowered, testing new ideas and bringing new ideas and innovation to the way in which the team delivers for the Group
4. Improve team performance through regular appraisals and competency reviews and develop a plan for development to address areas of development identified by the team

Quality Improvement

1. Ensure that quality improvement is embedded into the culture of the team and is embedded into the methodology the team uses to drive Change and Improvement
2. Ensure that the tools used are available across the organisation in a format that is accessible and easy to use and understand.
3. Support the Quality Improvement faculty with development and delivery of Quality Improvement training
4. Engage and advise senior clinicians, managers and other staff in developing a culture where new ideas and thinking around change are encouraged with emphasis on breaking down barriers, encouraging team working, encouraging a culture at all levels of continuous improvement and promoting multidisciplinary working.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree qualified or equivalent with evidence of further formal study at masters level in organisational development or related change area.
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of sound intellectual ability and on-going personal development at senior management level.
• Programme Management qualification
• Evidence of QI experience or expertise

Experience

Essential

• In depth experience of operating at senior management level
• Extensive experience of the NHS
• Significant experience of successfully delivering large scale complex projects which involved working closely with clinicians and management
• Experience of working with different professional groups and with staff at different levels of seniority
• Experience of complex budget management.
• Experience of financial recovery and turnaround
• Track record of forging relationships with diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding at a senior level of the overall operational management issues and functions within a large complex organisation
• Experience of strategic planning at corporate level and of coproduction of other strategies at site or department level
• Experience of successfully developing collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Roy Shaw House

London

NW3 2QG

Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)