Job summary
- Main area
- Strategic Development
- Grade
- Very Senior Manager
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-LH-DS
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Director of Strategy
Very Senior Manager
Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional person to join us to lead our engagement with the Surrey Heartlands ICS, Guildford and Waverley Place and the Trust Provider Collaborative to shape our collective clinical strategy. This role will ensure that our organisational strategy and key priorities are clearly defined and articulated, and are then translated into delivery plans through our business planning process.
Do you have a track record in developing organisational, and preferably system-wide strategies that work across organisational boundaries and have the ability to take complex, multiple-source information and data and turn this into organisational or system actions? You must also have experience of leading and determining organisational development priorities.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Chief Executive and working closely with the wider board, you will provide strategic leadership to the Trust, and develop and connect plans across the Trust to enable the delivery of the overarching organisational strategy. Collaborative working has never been more important, so you will build trusted relationships with partners and systems, ensuring that we realise shared ambitions and progressive transformational development can be achieved.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given the Royal Surrey hospital an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role of Director of Strategy will also have responsibility for leading the Trust’s sustainability and Net Zero plans, as well as acting as the Board lead for Research and Development. You will lead and co-ordinate our system-wide learning, scanning good practice and innovation inside and outside of the NHS to make recommendations for future development.
Whilst there is an expectation that this role will be based onsite, flexible / agile working arrangements will be considered including working from home one day per week.
For further details please refer to the Job Description attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Significant demonstrable experience within a healthcare setting or similar role
- Master’s degree or equivalent level qualification
- Significant experience in a relevant role and senior/middle management experience
- Evidence of personal development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of national requirements and developments within health and social care and their implications for local services
Desirable criteria
- Project management within a complex, multi-agency service system, including proactive management of change
- Managing different organisational cultures and working across professional groups
- Working effectively within the local and national political environment
- Leadership of substantial service change
- Previous experience in managing in a clinical setting
- Process mapping skills
- Background with NHS
- Experience in commercial setting
Skills and Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed negotiation/interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication and relationship skills
- Excellent project management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom White
- Job title
- Director of HR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further discussion about the role, please contact our HR Director on [email protected].
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