Head of AHPs

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Planning and information

·   Creates and implements Strategic Operations business plan, clearly identifying links to national, regional, and local priorities and policy objectives.

·    Contributes to the development and implementation of general policy and service development.

·       Develops and implements strategies for improving performance.

·       Drives and leads development and improvement of processes.

·       Ensures stakeholder representation is engaged throughout the cycle.

·      Drives process efficiency in the continuous development of the end-to-end cycle and its associated performance metrics.

·       Accountable for short-, medium- and long-term strategic business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

·      Responsible for linking people, resource, and strategy to organisational strategy.

ICS function development & support

·    Work within the overall strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the strategy.  Evaluate, interpret, and locally implement best practice.

·       Provide overall management to the function.

·  Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports to appropriate boards and groups of staff.

·     Present complex information on all aspects of function practice in a clear, understandable, and audience-appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups.

·    Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate, and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.

·   Ensure a smooth transition through decision making process to the management of contracts.

·      Ensure that an appropriate strategy is in line with business objective and are fully cascaded.

·   Personally lead, support, and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level staff from external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.

·       Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.

·     Oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks, and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.

·   Work closely with the Heads of other Department or Directorate to ensure that units understand and adhere to rules and standards, intervening as appropriate.

·       Ensure the securing of value for money, giving due consideration to all relevant factors including risk, quality, and other factors.

·    Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards, and thresholds. Disseminating these methodologies etc. to staff within the department and throughout the organisation.

·   Collect and report on information of expenditure within the organisation and other relevant governing bodies.

Policy and Service Development

·    To identify and assess opportunities for new services and threats to existing services and market develops.

·       Develop plans and seize opportunities, mitigate threats and deliver NHS’s strategic objectives. 

·       Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact services and Sector.

·       Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.

·       Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to project management.

Governance & Corporate Leadership

·       Ensures that relevant groups can access best practice and current information from supply markets.

·       Commissions Research and Development initiatives to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation, through new goods and services or re-engineering existing processes 

·       Ensures that benefits from research and development and from innovation are realised by stakeholder organisations.

Engaging People/Key Working Relationships

Key relationships include but are not limited to:

·       Senior leaders, peers, and colleagues across the Integrated Care System (ICS)

·       Close, integrated working, with colleagues in NHS England

·       Provider clinical and managerial leads from across all sectors (including third and private sectors)

·       Local authorities, including Public Health, Adult & Children’s Social Care

·       Universities, schools, and colleges

·       Public, patients, and carers – particularly groups established for engagement.

·       Care Quality Commission

·       Professional networks across neighbouring health and care systems, as well as regional and national system architecture