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Key Working Relationships

·               Establish and maintain strong networks across the ICS, engaging with NHS colleagues, Local Authority contacts and other stakeholders

·               Communicate effectively complex information to a diverse range of stakeholders in formal settings

·               Engage constructively on business sensitive issues with both internal and external stakeholders

·               Maintain and nurture networks internally and externally

·               Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data.

·               Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

·               To liaise with other Managers to share best practice.

3.       Functional Responsibilities

3.1          Project Management

·               Contribute to performance improvement and providing project advice and support

·               Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested

·               Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function

·               Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.

·               Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.

3.2      Financial and Physical Resources

·               Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.

·               Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of Team budgets

·               Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.

3.3      Management

·               Take a lead in the coordination of training, development and recruitment activity across the Team

·               Manage colleagues, undertaking appraisals, recruitment including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues, as necessary.

3.4      Information Management

·               Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.

·               Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.

3.5      Research and Development

·               Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and workstream success

·               Delegate aspects of Research and Development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.

4.       Operational Responsibilities

4.1      Planning and Organisation

·               Contribute to the strategic planning of Team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.

·               Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Clusters and Sector priorities.

·               Contribute to short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

4.2      Policy and Service Development

·               Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.

·               Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.