Barts Health is one of the largest providers of healthcare in the country and serves a diverse population across East London. To meet the health needs of the people we serve we need to optimise the resources we have available. That covers financial resource and human resource as well as our infrastructure. We face a significant challenge as the demands on our services grow and the resources become more stretched. We are looking to be more effective, efficient and provide better value for money for our population.

Our analysis shows that we have opportunities to improve our activity performance within existing resources and we can reduce our cost base. We are now looking for someone who can help deliver this ambition. The Head of Delivery will focus on Barts becoming a stronger, more sustainable and collaborative provider of healthcare for East London.

You will work with key stakeholders across the hospital sites as well as within the North East London Health and manage a team across different specialities. In addition you will establish a sustainable model of delivery support going forwards.

Main duties of the job

Main skills and responsibilities include:

Working with stakeholders and Board members within Barts and across North East London

Coordinating the delivery of significant projects across Barts to improve performance

Collaborating with acute providers in North East London as appropriate

Using data and complex analysis to develop projects for improvement

Reporting clearly on delivery to stakeholders with supportive analysis

Ability to manage priorities and understanding of risks

Understanding of health systems including workforce/productivity analysis

Managing teams to deliver

Financially literate and ability to interpret financial information into actions

Ability to work with people and leaders to gain consensus

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 3rd September 2024

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of managing and influencing change in large/complex organisations.
• oWorking with senior stakeholders including Board level, presenting, reporting, persuading and influencing them to a way of thinking
• oExperience of delivering efficiency or CIP programmes in a complex organisation.
• oSignificant experience and a successful track record of project/programme management
• oKnowledge of current NHS strategy and policy issues and ability to translate them to a local context and create local plans
• oExperience of working in a complex cultural environment and able to develop matrix working between teams
• oExperience of working with complex financial, people and operational datasets, triangulating these and producing analysis, trends and trajectories, and using this to support a hypothesis
• oExperience of matrix managing a team and working closely with workstreams.

Desirable

• oExperience of working in the NHS, and in particular acute provider experience.

Skills

Essential

• oAble to develop, articulate and engage others in a long term strategic vision that delivers outcomes to patients.
• oAble to establish collaborative working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• oAbility to shape programmes and projects, developing business cases, creating project briefs with clear deliverables and outcomes
• oAble to develop delivery plans, establish workstreams and appropriate project governance
• oThe ability to present complex information in a clear and understandable format to help the audience to draw conclusions and take action with evidenced based recommendations
• oAbility to deal with ambiguity, focus on drivers of performance and ensure that actions are in place to address them
• oStrong level of financial literally which has been utilised in previous roles.
• oDecision-making skills, including the ability to delegate and make recommendations based on an analysis of options.
• oExcellent IT skills with breadth of ability across Excel, Word and Powerpoint

Qualifications

Essential

• oDegree in Management or equivalent level of experience
• oEvidence of continued Professional Development.

Desirable

• oProfessional Finance Qualification
• oProject Management Qualifications such as Prince 2, MSP, Agile or experience of Project Management commensurate with the role.
• oImprovement methodologies such as QI, Lean

Other

Essential

• oSelf-motivated, proactive and team oriented with a focus on delivery.
• oShows leadership and takes the initiative when faced with challenging situations or issues
• oAbility to constructively challenge senior executives, clinicians and others
• oAble to build inclusive teams and behaves in a way that meets the Trust's WeCare values at all times
• oMaintain a professional approach, interacting across all sections of the organisation and adapting style accordingly.
• oEffectively manage and support staff, conduct objective setting, undertake appraisals and provide feedback on performance.
• oAble to lead, motivate and empower a virtual team where there is no line management responsibility
• oAbility to develop concise written reports and presentations which convey complex messages simply.
• oAbility to communicate with senior stakeholders, such as the Trust Board, Group Executive Board and Financial Recovery Board
• oAbility to develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders and ensure they are aware of key headline points.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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