Job summary
- Main area
- Deputy Director
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6821253-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London/Leeds
- Town
- London/Leeds
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum (Exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Hospital Operational Readiness
NHS AfC: Band 9
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 provides professional credibility for the programme with a wealth of experience of acute hospital operational roles with knowledge and experience of leading a hospital team during build, commissioning and activation of services into new estate in addition to safe decommissioning of redundant estate.
As a Deputy Director of Hospital Operational Readiness, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Transformation Directorate and the NHP programme as a whole to meet the ambitions of the programme.
The post is responsible for providing acute hospital operational expertise to ensure the outcomes of the business processes for the Directorate.
The post holder will have accountability and responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the operational readiness team within the hospital operations workstream. Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.
Main duties of the job
Key aspects of this role will be to: -
§ Ensure the strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
§ Ensure the development and management of relevant strategic plans, within the Sector.
§ Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.
§ Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
§ Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
§ Manage the whole budgetary implications of activity.
§ Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders.
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.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on job description and responsibilities please see attached job description.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Hold relevant qualifications in acute hospital care / operational delivery
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior nurse operational level in specialist area
- Certified healthcare leadership qualification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Have experience of a leadership role within a new acute hospital build programme, guiding the operational team / clinical department through build, commissioning and activation into new estate
- Extensive knowledge and experience at an operational senior level within an acute hospital setting. This would be at Deputy Director of near Board level
- Have extensive knowledge of operational readiness, including safely opening hospital and optimising operational performance
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Operational experience with capability at a very senior level, building and transforming services to improve effectiveness and responsiveness within acute care
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across multiple sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Esther Oladiran
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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