Head of Transformation
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have responsibility for:
• Working with the relevant Corporate Directors, Group management teams and senior clinicians to support the delivery of commissioned projects.
• To track the effectiveness and benefits of key strategic development programmes to ensure a robust assessment of value for money and quality are both made and articulated.
• Ensuring any programme or project includes planning, structuring, designing, delivering and measuring benefits.
• Allocating and re-allocating project management resource to support delivery as appropriate.
• Understanding and monitoring the workload and deliverables of the strategic transformation projects.
Detailed Responsibilities:
• Support the Deputy Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer in the successful delivery of the major programmes across multiple portfolios (pathway transformation, capital builds, digital).
• Maintaining a work plan of key milestones to ensure successful delivery across interrelated, complex programmes of work.
• Providing leadership to the PMO team and other colleagues to ensure progress is made across the transformation agenda.
• Identify opportunities for the PMO team to develop and ensure an inclusive environment for the team to thrive.
• Ensuring that all exceptions and risks to programme/project delivery are highlighted and appropriate mitigating actions are taken to keep the programme on track. The individual will work across organisational boundaries, supporting a culture to deliver the development of end-to-end pathways for patients.
• Ensuring communications both externally and internally are planned in conjunction with the Communications team for any planned completion or major milestone of a project.
• Ensuring robust evaluations are completed and reported following the end of a project.
• Promote the effective use of PM3 as the organisation's platform to monitor delivery and ensure consistency in approach, as well as evaluating its effectiveness and ongoing use.
• Responding to operational pressure during heightened escalation and releasing the PMO team as required.
• Supporting resolution and escalation of challenges associated with a programme to the Deputy Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer.
• Working collaboratively with the strategy leads to identify triggers to reassess the strategy if internal or external environment changes.
• Support the Strategic Delivery Board (SDB) in its form and function with the work plan used to provide executive level assurance on delivery.
• Establishing and embedding relationships with internal and external stakeholders that are required to support a strategic programme.
For further details of the job role please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
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Desirable criteria
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Knowledge, Training & Experience
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Skills
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
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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
- Job Description (PDF, 544.3KB)
- Candidate Information (PDF, 406.1KB)
- How to complete an application form & Values Fact Sheet (DOCX, 874.6KB)
- Welcoming Applicants with a Disability (PDF, 53.2KB)