A Vacancy at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This newly created position within the Chief Operating Officer's team offers a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced and influential leader. You will play a key role in the design and delivery of clinical strategy and 5-year road map for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and must be committed to improving services and outcomes for patients and their families.
You will coordinate the translation of the strategy into annual business plans, which comply with the Trust’s internal needs and those of NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission, liaising with executive and clinical directors as required.
The role requires an individual with highly developed leadership skills, a comprehensive understanding of strategy development and implementation, as well as collaborative working. The role will require a significant experience in the development and delivery of complex strategic work programmes in large scale organisations and managing integrated programmes of work in a highly complex environment.
You will be a strong communicator both orally and in writing, and able to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels: patients, colleagues, senior leaders, and senior partners. You will have a track record of working effectively with written and numerical evidence to support good decision making.
If this role interests you please do arrange a conversation with the Chief Operating Officer.
The main duties of this exciting new opportunity include but are not limited to:
• Develop relationships with the care groups leadership teams and clinic service leadership teams to support the development and delivery of a clinical strategy and annual business plans.
• Develop constructive working relationships with other providers and commissioners to contribute to ensuring that strategic plans, change programmes and delivery plans in relation to the strategic programme are informed by their plans and that opportunities for joint working are understood and capitalised on.
• Support in to gathering, verifying, and assessing all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the future requirement of sites and impact on how services should be configured. This information will highly complex in nature and from a wide range of sour
• Develop practical and realistic long-term plans to achieve strategic outcomes/objectives to future-proof clinical service across the whole of the Trust
• Support the leadership teams in the planning and mobilisation of key service transformation projects.
• Develop, co-ordinate and submit bids for the Trust in response to funding opportunities that may present and coordinate the implementation of any successful proposals.
• To lead defined service reviews, seeing to utilise best practice and standards.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
· Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
· 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
· A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
· A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
· Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
· NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
· An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
· Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.
A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.
Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit you application at the earliest opportunity.
Working for the Trust
Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.
Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: yhs-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.
As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.
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We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against COVID19, this remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.
This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Aug 2024
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