Job summary
- Main area
- Adminstration
- Grade
- ESM1
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-COO-6468785-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London/Leeds
- Salary
- £100,000 - £131,300 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Director of Intermediate Care and Rehabilitation
ESM1
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post holder is responsible for delivering the key workstream of Intermediate Care and the Better Care Fund.
This includes
1) Acting as Director for the key workstreams of the Intermediate Care programme, and the NHS Director responsible for NHS policy and delivery elements of the Better Care Fund.
2) Responsible for delivery of milestones and objectives
3) Leading the team, through networks with regional and ICS leads to support providers to implement the discharge to assess agenda.
4) Working across government to deliver the collective aims of the Better Care Fund.
5) Supporting the National Director by anticipating and resolving risks and issues; building effective working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues; and deputising where necessary
This requires extensive experience of managing complex health and care programmes at senior level.
Main duties of the job
Key Functional Responsibilities
The Director for Intermediate Care and the Better Care Fund is responsible for the delivery of key objectives including:
• Policy lead for the roll out of the Intermediate care framework, incorporating community rehabilitation and reablement.
• Director lead for the BCF programme team, supporting all three accountable partners and NHS policy lead.
• Delivery of the associated iUEC strategic and operational outcomes ensuring they are aligned with the programme objectives.
• Deliver the ambitions of all programme through system leadership working across the organization and government, regions, commissioners, providers and cross sector health, social and VCSE stakeholders securing commitment.
• Deliver goal of ensuring the appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the iUEC plans.
• To brief senior executives, including ToTo and government, when required.
• To support the spread of best practice across the country, and to contribute to identifying and supporting systems with particular challenges.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for delivering the key workstream of Intermediate Care and the Better Care Fund.
This includes
1) Acting as Director for the key workstreams of the Intermediate Care programme, and the NHS Director responsible for NHS policy and delivery elements of the Better Care Fund.
2) Responsible for delivery of milestones and objectives
3) Leading the team, through networks with regional and ICS leads to support providers to implement the discharge to assess agenda.
4) Working across government to deliver the collective aims of the Better Care Fund.
5) Supporting the National Director by anticipating and resolving risks and issues; building effective working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues; and deputising where necessary
This requires extensive experience of managing complex health and care programmes at senior level.
Key Functional Responsibilities
The Director for Intermediate Care and the Better Care Fund is responsible for the delivery of key objectives including:
• Policy lead for the roll out of the Intermediate care framework, incorporating community rehabilitation and reablement.
• Director lead for the BCF programme team, supporting all three accountable partners and NHS policy lead.
• Delivery of the associated iUEC strategic and operational outcomes ensuring they are aligned with the programme objectives.
• Deliver the ambitions of all programme through system leadership working across the organization and government, regions, commissioners, providers and cross sector health, social and VCSE stakeholders securing commitment.
• Deliver goal of ensuring the appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the iUEC plans.
Financial and Physical Resources
• Responsible for running cost and programme budgets, including the Better Care Team programme budget, ensuring adherence to the Group’s budget, ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny.
• Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities.
• 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.
• Responsible for providing guidance, management and assurance on the procurement of identified products, equipment, services and facilities.
• Budget setting across a range of areas/services, managing and monitoring related activity, liaising with Finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costings, and ensure compliance with standing financial instructions.
• Responsible for ensuring adherence to the directorate budget, ensuring appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny. Constantly striving for value for money and greater efficiency.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification in a relevant discipline
- Postgraduate level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience working at a senior level in specialist area
- In depth understanding of Community Services, and the health and social care integration agenda
- In depth understanding of Community Services, and the health and social care integration agenda
- Relevant experience of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders, including patients and the public
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Outstanding relationship management skills, and ability to build credibility and trust with very senior colleagues
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build, lead, develop and motivate high performing teams
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Delivery skill to shape and run a number of discrete national programmes so that the benefits are clearly
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
- Nicola Hunt
- Job title
- National Discharge and Int Care Programme Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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