Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Agenda for Change Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 144-KJ041-COO-24
- Employer
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aperture House
- Town
- Exeter
- Salary
- £99,891 - £114,949 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locality Director
Agenda for Change Band 9
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Locality Director to join our Chief Operating Officer Directorate.
Working in a new way, this role will have a varied and flexible portfolio, based on the NHS Devon ICB priorities at the time, providing strategic direction to ensure teams achieve success and delivery of results. Given the everchanging priorities, adaptability is an important part of this role. The portfolio focus will be regularly reviewed and range from exiting NOF4 and supporting urgent elective care and recovery. In time priorities may be more aligned to support locality population groups (PHM), LCPs and Provider Collaboratives.
As we transition to a new structure, you will be part of creating and promoting a culture of inclusive and multi-professional leadership. Leading the strategic vision for the locality to develop a high performing team driving new ways of working and a culture embedding an innovative approach, to deliver on priorities.
You will be leading a new approach of assurance and oversight utilising strong collaborative and facilitative working across partners to understand the needs of the system and put system priorities first.
You will have substantial experience of providing successful strategic leadership in this area including managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders, accompanied with the ability to progressively lead a flexible portfolio focusing on our priorities at the time, which can regularly change, adapting as required.
Main duties of the job
- Leading a new approach of assurance and oversight utilising strong collaborative and facilitative working across partners to understand the needs of the system and put system priorities first.
- Leading the strategic vision to develop a high performing team driving new ways of working and culture embedding an innovative approach, delivering on a varied and changing scope of responsibilities meeting the demands of system priorities, which includes, but is not limited to.
- Leading resource management for the team making the most efficient use of those resources effectively, on time and within budget to successfully deliver on organisational priorities.
- Leading, developing and sustaining a high-performance team that relish collaboration, coordination, and innovative thinking maximising productivity.
- Primarily leading in a matrix way to support the key priorities of the ICB at that moment in time, influencing and negotiating on delivery of services.
Working for our organisation
NHS Devon Integrated Care System
As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together. Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve peoples health, wellbeing and care. It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.
Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.
About NHS Devon
As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve peoples health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve peoples lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.
For more information, visit our ICS website www.icsdevon.co.uk and our NHS Devon website www.devon.icb.nhs.uk.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
· Where the post is a temporary position there may be a possibility of the post becoming permanent.
· All posts can be considered as development opportunities if applicants do not meet the essential criteria at the time of appointment but would be able to meet this in a reasonable time frame.
· Vacancies may close early if a high volume of applications are received.
Person specification
Personal Values
Essential criteria
- Personally committed to upholding the NHS principles and values as set out in the NHS Constitution, the Joint Forward Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principles and Fit and Proper Persons regime, along with an ability to reflect them in their leadership role and the culture of NHS Devon.
- Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
- Committed to continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of very senior manager or Director level leadership within a health or social care organisation.
- Substantial experience of providing strategic leadership in this area including managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders, particularly in a political environment.
- Substantial experience of managing relationships with the media and political stakeholders.
- Experience of leading and delivering large scale complex transformational programmes, preferably across multiple organisations and within the health or social care sector.
- Experience of leading strategic policy development, performance improvement, operational planning and strategic commissioning or similar.
- Experience of formulating long term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, impact on organisation, developing business plans, strategies for area of activity and making major contribution to policies and strategy.
- Experience of providing strategic leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes.
- Substantial experience at Director level, providing strategic direction working in a collaborative and facilitative way to support systems providers to come together, understand needs, value, and risk and to design and deliver care accordingly, as a key part of the Devon operating plan model.
- Substantial experience at Director level, having an influential role with accountability for the development and delivery of the strategic plan/s of the ICB, as well as accountability for resource allocation ensuring its effectively deployed, reviewing effectiveness of initiatives and making necessary changes to large scale programmes of work
- Substantial experience at Director level, working as a strategic collaborative leader and role model to promote efficiency and effectiveness in own area of influence and across the whole system in the development and delivery of the ICB plan.
- Experience of managing budgets for services
- Experience of line managing of senior leaders across a range of areas and teams, with major areas of activity.
- Experience of being accountable for a major area of activity, with the autonomy to act independently.
- Experience dealing with, or advising on, highly confidential information and explaining highly complex, highly sensitive and potentially unwelcome information to a wide range of audiences while overcoming significant barriers to resistance.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the resourcing implications related to the social determinants of public health.
- Current evidence and thinking on practices which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety and ensure organisations are ‘Well-led.
- Sound knowledge of health and care financial planning and budgeting at a Director and/or system level.
- Additional in-depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines related to the role with experience of staff management acquired through training and experience over extended period.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree level education or equivalent level of specialist knowledge and experience relevant to this role.
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anthony Fitzgerald
- Job title
- Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Becky Bainbridge at [email protected]
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