Associate Director - Enable Eas

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About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values

Our Vision

"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".

Our Purpose

"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".

Our Values

• We Care
• We Learn
• We Empower

Our strategic objectives

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

• Mental Health Services
• Community Health Services
• Learning Disabilities Services
• Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Job overview

Enable East is an innovative, independent NHS team, complimented by a wide pool of experienced, independent associates, that assists other health and social care and voluntary sector organisations to deliver effective projects and measurable social impact. A 'common sense' and flexible alternative to commercial management consultants, Enable East offers deep industry expertise and a fresh pair of eyes at competitive NHS rates. Enable East has a strong brand and track record for delivery across the East of England region as well as further afield across England.

This post is the senior leadership role within Enable East, which is hosted by Essex Partnership University NHS Trust (EPUT), reporting to EPUT's Director of Strategy. You will spend approximately 50% of your time providing senior operational leadership to the core team and supporting project and programme delivery, and the other 50% developing a pipeline of new business.

Enable East directly supports the delivery of EPUT's strategic objective to "help our communities thrive" and the post holder will be responsible for priority programmes within EPUT's social impact strategy.

This post is offered as a 12 month fixed term contract while the income projections of the business are proven. There is definitely potential for the post holder to take direct action and influence decision making about extending or substantiating contracts during the Q2 review process.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the new ambitious business plan by:

• Providing strategic and operational management of all financial matters for Enable East including quarterly reporting to the EPUT executive committee.
• Operational oversight of performance measures relating to all contracts including any grant funded programmes and managing consortia with multiple partners to deliver contractual objectives, targets and outcomes.
• Strategic leadership of business development and marketing initiatives to increase commissioned work and contracts within the NHS, statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
• Strategic lead on existing and new grants and contracts within the voluntary and community sector.
• Growing and nurturing the pool of associates through which Enable East delivers many commissioned projects.
• Provide operational management of Enable East core team planning and HR.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication & Relationships

• Management of the Enable East brand identity, including articulating a clear vision for the Enable East offering to the market, clearly differentiated from the competition, to make this attractive to senior customers, commissioners and funders as well as internal stakeholders within EPUT.
• To proactively develop and sustain strong working relationships with external agencies including customers, contractors, commissioners and funders to develop further business opportunities.
• To develop and maintain strong and trusting relationships with leads of key corporate functions within EPUT. The post holder will be required to have regular contact with external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex, contentious and confidential issues.

• To participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide project information and analytical advice and expertise.
• To present project information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• To liaise with other senior managers to share best practice.

Analytical & Judgement Skills

• Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with customers on new business opportunities providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
• Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the business plan.
• Report progress through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports to appropriate boards and groups of staff.
• Present complex information on all aspects of Enable East business in a clear, understandable and audience-appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups.
• Evaluate, interpret and locally implement best practice and ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels.
• Ensure a smooth transition through decision making processes.
• Identify innovative opportunities to develop new as well as expand existing programmes of work.
• Quality oversight of deliverables produced for clients.

Planning & Organisational Skills

• Oversee the tracking of progress against plans and milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns.
• Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to contracts, partnership agreements, service level agreements (SLAs) and polices and protocols.
• Develop plans and seize opportunities, mitigate threats to deliver Enable East's business plan and strategic objectives.
• Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management.

Responsibility for Policy & Service Development

• Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards and thresholds; disseminating these methodologies etc. to staff within the department and throughout the organisation.

• The post holder will maintain a good knowledge of Trust policies, wider statutory policy, legislative requirements and local government policy, to assist in the future planning and strategy for new business opportunities.
• The post holder will be responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge and understanding of European Funding compliance requirements in relation to future grant funding opportunities.
• Operational policy for Enable East, including ensuring contracts for associates includes recognition of both EPUT policies and other external requirements including data protection, data sharing and external agencies standing orders and standing financial instructions.

Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources

• The postholder will be directly responsible for the full value of any grants secured and all associated functions with the management of the grant to ensure the grant successfully achieves all contractual targets, results and outcomes and meets compliance requirements.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that procurement arrangements with new suppliers and contracts for are managed within EPUT's requirements including obtaining appropriate waivers as required.
• The post holder will be directly responsible for Enable East's financial targets and responsibilities.
• The post holder will be responsible, each year, for securing funding from external agencies to support the business and fund the core team of Enable East.

• The post holder will be responsible for evaluating the value for money of new contracts, monitoring the performance of existing contracts and ensuring that sub-contractors performance aligns, and complies, with contractual terms and conditions.
• Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of suppliers

Responsibility for Human Resources

• To lead recruitment, appraisal, retention, development, training and motivation of employees within Enable East
• To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver their objectives. Including the management of disciplinary procedures as required, undertake staff consultation and consider welfare and safety matters, taking into account instructions and guidelines issued.
• To recruit as necessary and performance manage a team that delivers a range of tasks aligned to the Enable East strategic objectives and business plan.
• Use appraisal and development policy and procedure to ensure that appraisals are undertaken regularly.

Responsibility for Information Resources

• Ensure robust processes are in place for collecting, evaluating and interpreting data.
• Ensure performance measures are in place to inform the short, medium and long term strategies relating to Enable East business development.
• Ensure GDPR is implemented in relation to data collection mechanisms.
• Responsible for the reporting on information of expenditure both within and outside the organisation.
• Ensure processes and staff behaviours are in place for appropriate information sharing.

Responsibility for Research & Development

• Ensures that relevant groups are able to access best practice and current information.
• Commissions Research and Development activity as required in line with specific programme requirements.
• Ensures that benefits from research and development and from innovation are realised by stakeholder organisations.

Person specification

Commercial and business development experience

Essential criteria

• Commercial/business development experience
• Financial management & reporting experience
• Operational and people management experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of securing and managing grant funds

Strategic & operational

Essential criteria

• Understanding of social impact/anchors agenda
• Operational and people management experience

!Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 744.5KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 368.6KB)
• EPUT Pledge - Step into Health (PDF, 211.0KB)
• Candidate Privacy Policy (PDF, 173.9KB)
• Right to Work Information (PDF, 293.6KB)
• Employer Recognition Scheme - Gold Award (PDF, 27.7KB)
• Trust Vision and Values (PDF, 168.9KB)
• Values of the NHS Pension (PDF, 151.3KB)
• EPUT Staff Benefits (PDF, 89.3KB)