Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in the creation and leadership of the newly forming BOB Acute Provider Collaborative (APC). The postholder will work with the Director and key system partners to design and deliver the APC strategy, as well as provide day-to-day leadership of the Elective Care Team and the work of the Elective Care Board (ECB). They will identify, implement and lead collaborative activities that will improve the quality and outcomes of care and value for money of services for our population.
Main duties of the job
Working with the APC Director and senior Executives of the three acute providers in BOB, the postholder will be responsible for leadership, strategy, effectiveness and delivery that:
Enables efficient and effective partnership working between the acute providers to deliver key programmes of change that deliver patient benefit.
Ensure elective programme plans align to BOB ICS / NHSE strategic aims, and have actions in place to deliver the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes sought.
Ensure that the APC proactively works to improve the health of the local population by addressing health inequalities across all programmes and identify opportunities to deliver equity of outcomes.
This is a Hybrid working role, in the office 1 to 2 days a week (with flexibility to be in the office if required for additional days for events and meetings on an ad hoc basis), and the rest of the week remote working. Visits to other sites, in particular the acute provider trusts, to facilitate collaborative working will be required.
If you would like to have an informal conversation to find out more about the role, please contact: Naomi Radcliffe on naomi.radcliffe7@nhs.net
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers
the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority
boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and
Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our
constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3
acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance
trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of
public money each year.
We
value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for
all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the
communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership
and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and
minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Alongside the APC Director, the postholder will be accountable for:
Further development of the Acute Provider Collaborative and establishment of an effective programme management function to deliver its strategic aims.
Working across a wide and diverse stakeholder group to build commitment to a shared vision for the Collaborative and ensuring high visibility within plans for BOB.
Shaping and leading individual pieces of work agreed by the Collaborative to help put the BOB acute sector onto a clinically and financially sustainable footing.
Ensuring Elective programme plans align to strategic aims of the ICS and have actions in place to deliver the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes sought. Ensure that complexity / uncertainty is understood and mitigated.
Delivery of the day-to-day objectives of the Elective Care Team, including working with the System Planning team on oversight of the operational planning cycle across theICS, ensuring key linkages between activity, performance, transformation, and finance are in place and closely aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHSE requirements.
Development and delivery of key transformational change programmes in partnership with the acute trusts to deliver system recovery and future sustainability of services.
Development of strong working relationships with wider system partners to develop the integration and collaboration of services.
Providing visible leadership across the system to deliver on our vision and objectives, supporting a culture that promotes collaboration, inclusion and equality of opportunity at all levels.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Alongside the APC Director, the postholder will be accountable for:
Further development of the Acute Provider Collaborative and establishment of an effective programme management function to deliver its strategic aims.
Working across a wide and diverse stakeholder group to build commitment to a shared vision for the Collaborative and ensuring high visibility within plans for BOB.
Shaping and leading individual pieces of work agreed by the Collaborative to help put the BOB acute sector onto a clinically and financially sustainable footing.
Ensuring Elective programme plans align to strategic aims of the ICS and have actions in place to deliver the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes sought. Ensure that complexity / uncertainty is understood and mitigated.
Delivery of the day-to-day objectives of the Elective Care Team, including working with the System Planning team on oversight of the operational planning cycle across theICS, ensuring key linkages between activity, performance, transformation, and finance are in place and closely aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHSE requirements.
Development and delivery of key transformational change programmes in partnership with the acute trusts to deliver system recovery and future sustainability of services.
Development of strong working relationships with wider system partners to develop the integration and collaboration of services.
Providing visible leadership across the system to deliver on our vision and objectives, supporting a culture that promotes collaboration, inclusion and equality of opportunity at all levels.
Person Specification
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Person Specification
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
