Performance and Resource Lead

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Regularly conduct horizon scanning to identify and assess population needs, new national agendas, and emerging legislation changes, ensuring the organisation remains informed and compliant.

Facilitate high-quality business analysis in collaboration with service teams and corporate colleagues, to support good performance management and the delivery of clinical services.

Lead the divisional requirements for business intelligence, including data quality and coordinate benchmarking data/reporting within the division. 

Provide the interface with clinical and corporate services to ensure the division’s current estate needs are met and collaborate with estates and facilities to identify future estate requirements of the division.

Provide the interface with clinical and corporate services to ensure Digital transformation is core to the Division’s requirements and ensuring that the Division’s Digital needs are met.

Work with the Trust’s contracting team, acting as the subject matter expert for commissioned services and an integral part of the team around the contract approach.

Provide the interface between clinical and corporate services to ensure the Division’s procurement and commissioning needs are met.

To lead specific complex projects and support clinical services through change management processes.

Contribute to the development of insightful and meaningful stakeholder relationships.

Work with divisional, corporate, and commissioning colleagues, as well as seeking out the voice of service users and carers, to understand and develop new business in line with national policy and local needs.

Work with services to monitor planned versus actual activity and proactively manage the impact of this variance with support from the divisional management team, commissioners, and contracting colleagues.

Produce robust business proposals; working with finance, workforce, contracting, digital, data, quality, and service delivery colleagues to ensure that business cases are costed accurately and are structured to clearly underpin the provision of high quality, sustainable clinical services.

Drive efficiency and productivity and coordinate the division’s Cost Improvement Programme.

Support the DMT business requirement in relation to service developments and transformation.

Lead the divisional business planning process.

Monitor monthly budget reports and work with divisional and finance colleagues to provide analysis of any variances in budget across services.

Act as the divisional link between services and the finance team in order to review and maintain cost apportionments for service line reporting at a detailed level.

Represent the division at the Trust’s Capital Investment Team meetings, acting as the divisions main point of contact for capital planning requirements.

Overseeing the divisional elements of Freedom of Information requests.

Act as a positive role model for other staff, demonstrating a positive and collaborative, compassionate leadership approach.

Provide line management at the discretion of the Associate Director of Operations as the division expands and develops.

Deputise for the Associate Director of Operations as required.

This job description is not exhaustive, and as a term of employment, you may be required to undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required.