Job summary
South Central and West (SCW) is a leading provider of transformation and consultancy services across health and social care at a national, regional, and local level. The Transformation team provides high quality, expert support to NHS organisations and partners to manage, analyse and improve performance, to transform the way services are provided for local populations.
Our customers include NHS England, ICSs/ICBs, provider trusts, general practices, and numerous social care, community care, and voluntary sector organisations.
If you are passionate about transforming health and care and have the desire to become part of our team, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us.
We are looking for a Band 8b Transformation Consultant and welcome applications from an experienced programme management, transformation or consultancy professional with a desire to work within the NHS. You will ensure value for public money and help to improve outcomes for patients through innovative, efficient, and robust delivery of consultancy assignments, programme management, leadership, and subject matter expertise within health and care transformation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for:
Leading the planning and delivery of complex transformation programmes, projects, and consultancy assignments.
Key responsibilities:
- Leadership of change and transformation consultancy assignments to agreed time, quality and cost
- Working in partnership with senior health and care stakeholders to implement government policy, often for the first time
- Being able to navigate and operate in a complex, ever changing environment
- The planning, monitoring and control of programmes of work for multiple programmes and assignments using programme management methodologies e.g. MSP, relevant and scaled to the activity
- To implement national strategy and policy, the rollout of largescale, complex change at scale, at pace
- The planning, monitoring and control of projects and consultancy assignments using project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE2, Agile, APM, relevant and scaled to the activity
- Leading and motivating project teams drawn from across the SCW footprint and from multiple external partners/stakeholders
- Ensuring effective, high quality, stakeholder management and communications in complex and politically sensitive environments
- Regular reporting of programme and project progress to senior responsible officers, programme boards and other executive level boards
- Resource planning and identifying interdependencies
- Identifying new business opportunities for SCW
About us
This role sits within the Transformation Directorate, which has approximately 250 people working across a range of professional disciplines within the transformation and consultancy space. The post holder will be allocated a Career Development Manager to support them pastorally and to support them on their career journey and they will report into an Assignment Manager for each project they are assigned to.
The post holder will play an essential part in the effective delivery of impactful projects and consultancy assignments across health and care. We are an inclusive and diverse team and collaboration is at the heart of how we work. The team has grown rapidly over the last couple of years in response to increasing customer demand and due to the committed and hard-working nature of the team, for which personal development is important.
The post holder will share the ethos and values of SCW and will be able to bring the skills, experience, and subject matter expertise they have developed in their career, to support the team to deliver quality services.
This role will involve travel across the South of England and potentially further afield.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information on our specific requirements for this role are included in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information on our specific requirements for this role are included in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable success in the planning and delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder Programmes.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Comprehensive experience of the use of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and programme management principles using Managing Successful Projects
- Ability to manage complex budgets, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Desirable
- A thorough understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Has a good appreciation of what needs to be undertaken to deliver transformational change
- Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills to relate appropriately to staff from all professional disciplines at all levels across all health and social care settings
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable success in the planning and delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder Programmes.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Comprehensive experience of the use of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and programme management principles using Managing Successful Projects
- Ability to manage complex budgets, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Desirable
- A thorough understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Has a good appreciation of what needs to be undertaken to deliver transformational change
- Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills to relate appropriately to staff from all professional disciplines at all levels across all health and social care settings
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.
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