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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Thank you for your interest in this role and we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Our Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and to deliver care and we are rightly proud of our organisation and of all the colleagues who work here. We are the 2020 Health Service Journal Acute or Specialist Trust of the Year. This recognises our support for colleagues, the outstanding care we provide and our collaborative working with our communities.
The Care Quality Commission has rated King’s Mill Hospital, where we deliver 90% of our services, as Outstanding overall and we were rated as Outstanding for care across the whole Trust. Our other two sites, Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital, were both rated Good.
It is not just the outside world that rates us well, our colleagues also rank us as being the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 National Staff Survey. We were also rated as the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust when you combine all of the Staff Survey results.
We provide outstanding healthcare across our communities to 500,000 people in Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We work with 5,000 colleagues in our three hospitals and have well established relationships with health and social care partners through the Mid Notts Integrated Care Partnership.
We know happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.
Director of Improvement and Change
Accepting applications until: 08-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Address
- Mansfield Road
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Postcode
- NG17 4JL
- Major / Minor Region
- Nottinghamshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £100,000 - £130,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
Specialty
- Main area
- Executives
- Interview date
- 23/12/2024
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Director of Improvement and Change to lead our improvement and change agenda. This pivotal role requires a leader with the expertise, insight, and innovative drive to advance our clinical processes, enhance organisational culture, and deliver a transformation that is both impactful and sustainable.
As the Director of Improvement and Change, you will apply your expertise to assess and understand the services we provide, not only from an organisational standpoint but also through the perspectives of our patients and service users. With a focus on driving innovation and evidence-based improvement methodologies, you will be key to shaping a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence within the Trust.
This is a unique opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will have the support of a committed executive team, a culture that values inclusivity and progressiveness, and the opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare for our patients and communities.
Join us in making a difference—apply now to lead the improvement and change agenda for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.
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The Director of Improvement and Change will apply expert insight and technological vision to understand services provided not only from an organisational perspective but also through the lens of patients and service users. You will be expected to drive innovation to improve clinical processes and organisational culture by applying evidence-based improvement methodologies.
Establishing direct links between delivery of the improvement strategies, performance, quality and safety, efficiency and productivity is a principal feature of the role.
You will also act as a role model, providing expertise on the appropriate skills, methods and tools leaders and clinicians require to improve services and outcomes for patients. In effect have a clear strategy deployment plan grounded in engagement which helps to build Trust improvement capability and expertise.
The Director of Improvement and Change is expected to foster productive relationships with stakeholders to help ensure the improvement agenda remains contemporary and future proof.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for anywhere in the Midlands for six years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHSrun hospital in the East Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in a relevant professional qualification
- Relevant postgraduate level improvement / transformation or related qualification
- Extensive demonstratable experience in digital innovation, implementation and change
Desirable criteria
- Formal qualification in Digital Transformation
- Relevant clinical qualification and registration with relevant professional body
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive and demonstratable knowledge of improvement methods with appropriate professional credentials.
- Knowledge of the NHS and social care agenda, ideally with a patient facing clinical background
- An understanding of healthcare planning process and key national healthcare issues
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant management and leadership experience at a senior level in the NHS or other complex organisation / system
- Experience of leading complex large scale improvement / transformation projects / programmes
- Experience of developing and delivering improvement / transformation models at scale
- Significant experience in delivering clinical change programs and projects
- Experience of staff engagement initiatives that have led to sustainable cultural change, driving transformation, generated by staff, owned by staff, to improve care reduce variance and improve productivity
- Proven experience and ability in managing operational performance with tight financial constraints demonstrating effective budget management
- Evidence of successfully formulating improvement plans to deliver an agreed strategy
- Track record of delivering projects on time, under budget. These may be physical builds or digital platforms
- Experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful relationships with all staff especially clinicians or other professional qualified experts within complex organisations
- Significant experience of directing successful financial recovery improvement delivery programmes, both qualitative and quantitative, across an organisation
- Experience of delivering transformation across a system, with a track record of negotiation prowess leading to collaborative working across multiple providers to meet the ICS strategy
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience of directing successful financial recovery improvement delivery programmes, both qualitative and quantitative, across an organisation
- Experience of delivering transformation across a system, with a track record of negotiation prowess leading to collaborative working across multiple providers to meet the ICS strategy
- NHS Board-level Executive experience
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Participate in the Gold on call rota
- Ability to attend multiple sites
- Must participate, pass and maintain a Fit and Proper Person Test
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Fox
- Job title
- Medical Directors Office Manager & PA
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
- Additional information
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