Job vacancy: Deputy Director of Future Hospitals, NHS England, National

Job summary

Main area: Healthcare
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 9
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 990-NHP-6834249-E

Employer: NHS England
Employer type: NHS
Site: Any NHSE Office
Town: National
Salary: £105,385 - £121,271 per annum (Exclusive of London Weighting)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/01/2025 23:59

Deputy Director of Future Hospitals

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on this role please see attached Job description.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional qualification or equivalent experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Experience in organisational leadership and delivering successful transformation programmes
Experience of working at a senior level in a complex environment, managing multiple transformation projects with a range of stakeholders.
Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
Experience of strategy development

Skills

Essential criteria

Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to be able to work effectively with individuals and a range of stakeholders
Ability to identify and implement effective systems to monitor performance.
Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time. Demonstrable experience developing, managing, and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success.
Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills

Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria

Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values.
Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

Our commitments to you

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.

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