Job summary
- Main area
- Transformation
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 423-7120960
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Steeton
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Executive Director of Transformation, Planning & Improvement
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen to establish a new executive portfolio to support the organisation’s ambition to continuously develop our approach to meeting the health needs of our population, through sustainable transformational leadership.
The Director of Transformation, Planning and Improvement is an exciting new position created as a result of the Trust Board’s commitment to ensuring that the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust continues to develop high quality and sustainable services, through embedding a culture of improvement and aligning our plans to strategic delivery for the benefit of the population we serve.
Main duties of the job
As the successful candidate you will have a proven track record of the delivery of strategic transformation improvement and innovation models at scale. You will be responsible for the delivery of a cutting edge and high-quality programme management office approach to deliver Transformation, Planning and Improvement across our services. You will be an innovative, inspiring and transformational leader, who can create a compelling and inclusive vision that creates followership across the organisation.
You will have the drive and ambition to deliver a complex, challenging and exciting agenda whilst promoting an organisational culture in line with the Trust’s Vision and Values. You will positively engage colleagues, service users and other stakeholders within Place and ICB, in sustainable quality improvement and service transformation.
This represents an exciting opportunity for someone who has the vision, energy and values based leadership to establish a completely new Directorate, including PMO and Digital to deliver sustainable services now and in the future.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To request a copy of the information pack, or for a confidential call, please contact our recruitment partners at Finegreen - Joe Joyce and Natasha Parmar on: [email protected]
Application is by CV and Covering Letter and should be submitted to: [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to degree level
- • Master’s level degree or post graduate qualification or equivalent level of experience in a similar role
- • Evidence of continuing professional development.
- • Relevant accredited improvement methodology training, such as IHI model for improvement, Lean Management, Six, Sigma, etc..
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience at Board level in a healthcare or another large complex public/private organisation
- • Extensive knowledge and experience of using innovation and improvement methodologies to effect organisational transformation at a senior influencing level.
- • Proven track record of the delivery of strategic transformation improvement and innovation models at scale.
- • Significant experience of effectively and compassionately leading and managing high performing teams.
- • Evidence of successful collaborative working with other health and care partner organisations.
- • Extensive experience of delivering effective transformation and improvement programmes including through partnerships
- • Experience of developing strategic plans, both for an organisation and in conjunction with strategic partners
- • High level of leadership competency with the ability to lead and manage change in a complex and dynamic environment.
- • Evidence of significant experience in leading and influencing professional groups to secure cross-system change.
- • Evidence of significant experience in building effective networks across health and social care
- • Experience in establishing a clear strategic vision and direction, and translating this into successful outcomes for staff and patients.
- • Demonstrable experience and commitment to Inclusion
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
- Finegreen
- Job title
- Finegreen Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294803
- Additional information
To request a copy of the information pack, or for a confidential call, please contact our recruitment partners at Finegreen - Joe Joyce and Natasha Parmar on: [email protected]
Application is by CV and Covering Letter and should be submitted to: [email protected]
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