Associate Director Of Transformation & Planning

JOB SUMMARY The postholder is a senior manager within the Trust: Reporting to the Chief Operating officer, they will support divisions and engage with clinical departments to develop and ensure delivery of Transformation plans that align and support the successful achievement of strategic objectives. This will involve proactively pursuing and then assimilating information from several sources to determine opportunities to transform services and ways of working, to then secure agreement and ensure work programmes are designed with robust implementation plans created. The role will be an advocate in furthering the Trusts culture of continuous improvement and the application of continuous improvement principles in major transformation programmes, in addition to developing the Trusts continuous improvement capability strategy to see a wide range of staff equipped and empowered with skills to lead improvements aligned to corporate priorities in their own areas. You will be the operational lead for co-ordinating and producing the Trusts annual plan and private patient services, which will be aligned to our areas of need, strategic goals and vision. The role will combine strong operational grip on planning and delivery, with an ability to deliver strategic changes that support our vision and operational effectiveness. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the Trust Divisional teams in the achievement of quality, financial and performance objectives: Service Transformation: Ensure clear service transformation priorities aligned to Trust strategic objectives. You will use system management skills and project management expertise to support service teams to produce service development plans and clinical strategies. You will design and embed monitoring and assurance systems to track progress and impact. Quality Improvement: Ensure the Trusts Quality Improvement strategy is aligned to the Trusts strategic objectives, develop plans to ensure a wider group of staff are empowered with skills in continuous improvement and use these skills to deliver measurable improvements within Divisional and wider Trust plans. Planning: Leading on annual planning, you will liaise with professional groups, including HR and finance, and the divisional leadership teams to produce the plan. Creating systems to monitor ongoing performance and delivery against the plan will be required. Private Patients: You will be responsible for developing and delivering the commercial aspirations of our private patient services. You will also ensure the day to day management of the service and delivery against the private patient strategy. You will lead on the delivery of a number of cross-cutting or large-scale service developments and projects. KEY RESULTS AREAS Service Transformation: Work effectively with all stakeholders (inc. patients) to understand service needs and to co-design service plans and projects. Work effectively with teams to support the development of strategic plans for their services. Create forums and methodologies that support colleagues to advance their services for patients. Responsible for change projects that may be associated with significant operational, financial and resource implications. In conjunction with the Divisional Directors develop new and innovative service transformation schemes including the operational translation of re design projects which support the provision of safe, effective and high quality patient care services (both within the Trust and across our catchment population). Apply continuous improvement principles and methodologies to all transformation programmes. Prioritise appropriately to ensure that transformation resources are targeted and deployed in an optimum way. Ensure appropriate programme governance and assurance. Quality Improvement: Work with colleagues at all levels to develop the strategy and priorities aligned to the Trust strategy. Maintain a culture of continuous improvement across the Trust, showcasing the outcomes of QI work. Ensure effective QI methodology, training and delivery. Planning: Brief and inform colleagues about national planning guidance Use data and planning tools to enhance our ability to create forward looking operational, activity and embed an effective capacity and demand tool with operational teams To be a core member of the Business Planning Group working proactively with Divisional Directors to ensure annual business plans are translated into clear and effective business cases, with a system of review and evaluation on an annual basis. To ensure the Trust has robust and deliverable activity targets which deliver contractual financial plans and access targets. Collaborate with Divisions to ensure services have a workforce and capacity plan, supported by safe and effective infrastructure and equipment, to deliver activity plans. Co-ordinate all aspects ensuring a clear alignment and coherence of quality, workforce, finance and activity plans. Utilise robust population health data to meet the changing needs of people and reduce health inequalities. Performance and Information Management: Support performance improvement through the use of improvement projects, effective relationships with staff and data-driven approaches To appropriately manage high level operational governance risks associated with performance and the improvement projects you lead Communicates with internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets and strategic objectives Track delivery of major programmes, providing support and intervention as required so programmes remain on track to deliver specified benefits in the timescales required. To analyse and communicate highly complex verbal and written data to all relevant stakeholders. Private Patients: To manage the private patient service including all performance and contractual management. To manage the external profile of private patient capabilities, and ensure effective and efficient processes To support the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring delivery of the private patient strategy Financial Management: Take delegated responsibility for the transformation team budget. Working with finance and programmes leads, ensure the cost benefits of Transformation programmes are modelled and understood and contribute towards financial targets set by the Trust. To have the financial acumen to assess change programmes via cost-benefit analysis and assess their impact on gross contribution To ensure the optimum use of resources, including the establishment and maintenance of effective management processes to ensure effective financial control. To evaluate the return on investment To manage improvement & transformation programmes and projects to budgets Ability to monitor activity, budgets and financial controls as set out through annual budget setting. Governance and Risk: To build and promote systems for quality and safety improvement within the Operations team. Ability to present to staff groups and the public to convey information in proposed change Apply robust project governance for major and large programmes, ensuring clear accountability frameworks and reporting mechanisms are in place to support the delivery of outcomes and enable early identification and management of issues and barriers, which could affect delivery. Create governance frameworks, tools, guidance and support to the Divisional triumvirates and heads of service to ensure robust project governance in smaller and Divisional owned and delivered projects. Ensure all transformation plans have appropriate quality impact assessments. Human Resources: To line manage staff within your portfolio Ensure all staff are regularly and effectively appraised and undertake all required elements of mandatory skills training. Find effective ways to recognise and motivate colleagues