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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
About
The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and Western Wiltshire.
The Trust occupies a 52-acre site about 1½ miles from Bath city centre and became a National Health Service Trust in 1992.
The Trust provides 627 beds which includes 522 adult and general beds. We have a comprehensive range of acute services including medicine and surgery, services for women and children, accident and emergency services, and diagnostic and clinical support services.
The Trust employs over 4,800 staff, some of who also provide outpatient, diagnostic and same-day case surgery services at local community hospitals in Bath & North East Somerset, Somerset and Wiltshire. This fulfils part of the Trust's aim to provide high quality care to people in their local communities.
The hospital provides healthcare to the population served by four Clinical Commissioning Groups:
Health Innovation West of England- Director of Corporate & Development
Closed for applications on: 9-Dec-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Dec-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Future Space
- Address
- UWE North Gate, Filton Road
- Town
- Bristol
- Postcode
- BS34 8RB
- Major / Minor Region
- Somerset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 Dependant on experience.
- Grade
- (Band 9)
Specialty
- Main area
- Director
- Interview date
- 10/01/2025
Job overview
It’s never been more important to harness the potential for innovation to transform health and care services. Health Innovation Networks were established 10 years ago as the innovation arm of the NHS both locally with our system partners and working together nationally as a HIN Network. We are appointing to a new role of Director of Corporate and Development. An experienced leader from a health or life science background, you will have a track record for collaboration and network building, and an ability to juggle a complex and diverse portfolio. We are a small team and you will be close to the delivery of our work with an ability to lead and motivate a team of highly skilled innovators and improvers at the top of their game. We serve a range of organisations in the West of England health and wealth ecosystem with a geography that spans three Integrated Care Systems with a combined population of 2.5 million. At the heart of our operating model is our local innovation pipeline that drives the discovery, development and deployment of innovations responding to local system priorities. Working as part of our Executive Team you will support all aspects of delivery, governance and development.
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Corporate Team leadership supporting the delivery of our complex national and local work programmes
Ensuring compliance with the relevant policies and procedures of the RUH Trust including finance, procurement, recruitment, and HR; provides senior interface with relevant Trust Directors and service leads
Corporate Governance including support to the HIWE Partnership Board
Overseeing all our operating systems and ensuring they are fit for purpose for optimum delivery
Leading on business planning, workforce and Organisational Development, finance and budgetary control and planning
Leading on the development of our organisation
Leading on business development and bid writing
Reporting and assuring all our commissioners and key stakeholders in accordance with our operating licence and commissions.
Working for our organisation
The Health Innovation West of England is one of 15 Health Innovations across England, established by NHS England to spread proven health innovation at pace and scale. We connect and collaborate with our local NHS and care organisations and universities, and with industry partners, the third sector, and researchers to support transformation across whole health and social care systems, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for citizens. We are an NHS organisation and employment with our Health Innovation is through the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
With headquarters in, Filton Bristol, we support agile working including the opportunity to work from home, and welcome applications from applicants seeking remote working opportunities. You will need to be able to travel to one of our office bases or occasionally to other locations within our geography and nationally for in-person meetings and events.
We value a workforce where people’s varied backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives and fresh ideas resulting in the development and spread of transformational innovations. We therefore welcome applications from diverse communities to ensure our team is dynamic, vibrant and reflects the populations we serve.
Find out more about the Health Innovation West of England at www.healthinnowest.net or follow @healthinnowest on Instagram.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional and managerial development
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in HR, finance, procurement, contract management, IG or Company Secretary
- Programme Management qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable working knowledge of health and life sciences industry sectors, the NHS and Higher education
- Experience of senior operational delivery in an NHS or social care setting
- Evidence of the effective application of financial and business acumen in complex problem solving
- Experience of running or working with a PMO
- Demonstrable experience of leading significant change programmes in a clinical setting
- Experience of working in a “Network” where levers to get things done are not always directly owned or commissioned
- Strategic thinker with proven ability to direct strategy development
- Proven track record of organising and directing delivery of operational plans in a complex environment
- • Highly competent at behaviour management and brokering solutions with a diverse range of interests and organisations across sectors and a wide geography
Desirable criteria
- Experience at Director level in an organisation
Values
Essential criteria
- Commitment to creating a working environment where staff are valued, and their well-being is promoted and improved.
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, and their role
- High standards of corporate conduct and personal probity relevant to the role of director
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the organisation-wide and multi-system wide local performance expectations.
- Ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret highly complex data, filtering and interpreting often conflicting information to develop organisation-wide and system-wide policy
- Intellectual flexibility with the ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity and to shape and implement a vision that looks beyond existing structures and ways of working, and beyond boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery models.
- Sound political judgment and sensitivity when dealing with stakeholders at all levels, with a strong ability to influence where expert opinions differ
- Proven strong written communication skills, for articulating complex issues and concepts including the ability to produce & present effective business cases.
- Ability to have challenging yet constructive conversations
- Highly developed and demonstrable emotional intelligence
- Able to personally involve oneself in problem solving and the pastoral expectations of the role
- Approachable, responsive and receptive
- Tenacious, resilient and a problem solver able to spot issues and unlock them
- Independent, curious, inquisitive and energised by thinking laterally, comfortable living in the “grey area” yet able to turn this into formal processes and deliverables
- Ability to influence and enable highly collaborative solutions whenever possible recognising the different needs of organisations and people
- Interested in innovation and alternative solutions
- Organised and a “born planner”
Physical Skills & Effort Emotional Effort
Essential criteria
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Full driving licence
- Occasional requirement for intense concentration e.g., reviewing business cases, performance reports, minimum data set entries
- Office work involving restricted position when inputting at a keyboard, reading reports, and participating in lengthy video conference calls frequently with back-to-back scheduling on most days
- Requirement to be seated while travelling via car and public transport for regional and national journeys
- Imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance targets not met or organisational change
- Regular use of specific software relating to oversight of the innovation pipeline, including the local Customer Relationship Management platform, and the national digital platforms relating to local programmes tracker and real world validation database
Requirements due to Working Environment
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in an agile way – both remotely and face to face on a regular basis
- Requirement to use VDU more or less continuously on most days
- Frequent travel in the South West and nationally, including overnight stays at other venues for attendance at meetings and conferences
- Operating in a complex and ambiguous business environment.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Swinscoe
- Job title
- Chief Executive Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 934 568
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