Job vacancy: Programme Director, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter

Job summary

Main area: Programme Management
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 388-6476043-SM

Employer: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aperature House
Town: Exeter
Salary: £83,571 - £96,376 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/08/2024 23:59

Programme Director

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Working Relationships

The post holder will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.
Lead as the expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
Drive and challenge each key working relationship to drive reform to achieve agreed objectives
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings.
Manage potentially aggressive and/or antagonistic situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes.
Deal with complex and conflicting subject matter problems or in day-to-day workload in workshops, meetings, one on one communications and other events, comprising various parts of the business.
Nurtures key relationships with senior and high-profile individuals and responsible for the maintenance of networks.
Link with managers and members of other initiatives to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.
Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels (including senior management) who may hold differing and contentious views.
Represent the sector in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.
Effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels, maintaining relationships with key and high- profile stakeholders, such as key strategic regional and national policy makers.
Ensure optimum engagement, securing appropriate buy in, support and understanding.

Operational

· Accountable for developing and delivering strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence in the sector. Working with highly complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations and comparisons on a range of options and making decisions on the most appropriate approach.

Financial and Physical Resources

Develop delivery models that ensure value for money and promote excellence.
Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.

Staff Management

Transfers expertise and knowledge as appropriate, regarding innovation issues throughout the team and also externally to Directors and partner providers – including developing and delivering formal briefing/training to promote innovation across the system.
To forge positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
To work in a matrix management style and to foster close working relations with other managers within the NHS.
To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of Peninsula Acute Provider Collaborative.
To recruit as necessary and performance manage the programme team that delivers a range of tasks within a matrix structure in a new and challenging environment.

Information Management

Responsible for the development, management and maintenance of systems and framework across the organisation.
Partners with the Information and Business Intelligence team to ensure that information management needs are meet in order to enable effective education planning and monitoring of Quality.

Research and development

Develops a innovation strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice
Drawing from experience and expertise in other academic fields and industries, ensures that Devon benefits from relevant innovations
Highlight, promote and report innovative approaches to education and training, particularly their impact on service

Planning and Organisation

Accountable for developing and owning the operational strategy and working with the team to ensure that this is incorporated into the consolidated plan.
Develops plan for the delivery of the role’s responsibilities including identifying interdependencies, managing risks, modelling the potential impacts on the wider organisation, determining resource requirements and building in contingency where necessary.
Contributes to the strategic planning process and delivery of priorities and manages consequential adjustments to activities responsible for as required.

Policy and Service Development

Working collaboratively to develop a faculty of local champions and leaders.
Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact.
Proposes changes to own function and making recommendations Sector wider.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Should have an appreciation of the relationship between provider organisations, NHS England and Improvement and individual care organisations

Communication Skills

Essential criteria

Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively

Analytical

Essential criteria

High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
High level critical thinking skills
Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives
Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate

Planning and Management Skills

Essential criteria

Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership
Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Determination, perseverance, and resilience. Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.

If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please apply promptly
Please read the job description and tailor your application to reflect the role
Correspondence will be via Trac, text and email. Please check your email and Trac account regularly.
Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band
If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion
It is your responsibility to assist us in the timely receipt of appropriate references

The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.