Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Candidate brief for the position of Chief Strategy Officer University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
August 2021
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Contents
About University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 3
Job Description 11
Person Specification 14
How to Apply 16
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About University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) provides services to some 1.9 million people living in Southampton and south Hampshire as well as specialist services including neurosciences, cardiac and specialist children’s services to more than 3.7 million people in central southern England and the Channel Islands. With a turnover last year of more than £1bn, the Trust is one of the largest in the country.
Every year over 12,000 staff: ° treat c. 170,000 inpatients and day patients, including about 750,000 emergency admissions; ° see approximately 700,000 people at outpatient appointments; and ° deal with around 140,000 cases in our emergency department. Providing these services costs about £2.75million a day. UHS is a centre of excellence for training the doctors and nurses of the future and developing treatments for tomorrow’s patients. Its role in research and education, developed in active partnership with the University of Southampton, distinguishes it as a hospital that works at the leading edge of healthcare developments in the NHS and internationally. We are a nationally leading hospital for research into cancer, respiratory disease, nutrition, cardio-vascular disease, bone and joint conditions and complex immune system problems. Services are provided from a range of locations: ° Southampton General Hospital is the Trust’s largest location, with a great number of specialist services based there, ranging from neurosciences and oncology to pathology and cardiology. Emergency and critical care is provided in the hospital’s special intensive care units, operating theatres, acute medicine unit and emergency department (A&E), as well as the dedicated eye casualty. Southampton General also hosts outpatient clinics, diagnostic and treatment work, surgery, research, education and training, as well as providing day beds and longer stay wards for hundreds of patients. ° The Princess Anne Hospital is located on Coxford Road in Southampton, just across the road from Southampton General Hospital. It is a centre of excellence for maternity care, providing a comprehensive service, including home birth, for about 5,000 women each year from around Southampton. We are also a regional centre for fetal and maternal medicine, providing specialist care for women with medical problems during pregnancy, and for those whose baby needs extra care before or around birth. Other services provided at the Princess Anne Hospital include genetics and breast screening. ° The Royal South Hants Hosp ital is located near the centre of Southampton. Ownership of the site was transferred to NHS Southampton City in 2007 but a small number of UHS outpatient services, such as audiology, are provided at this location. ° The New Forest Birth Centre is at Ashurst on the edge of the New Forest. Birth centres are suitable for women having a healthy pregnancy and those expecting to have a straightforward birth.
° Royal Lymington Hospital . UHS provides all routine surgical activity at Lymington New Forest Hospital and its satellite clinics in Romsey and Hythe. This includes inpatient, daycase and outpatient care.
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Our vision
The Trust’s new vision is:
“UHS: World -class care for everyone”
This is underpinned by six strategic goals:
° Improving patient journeys ° Delivering value based health and care ° Supporting healthy lives ° Building an expert and inclusive workforce ° Being agile in meeting people’s needs ° Creating leading edge research, education, and innovation
Our values guide the decisions we make every day
° Patients First – We will only do the things that add value to the patient and stop doing everything else.
° Working Together – This means partnership in the widest possible sense and working as a team within the Trust. Most importantly, it means working with our patients.
° Always Improving – We aim to be better every day and this means we ask difficult questions to solve our problems and achieve the improvement we seek.
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Education
UHS provides education and learning for doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists and the teams of healthcare and other staff who work at the Trust, as well as students who are training here. We also offer services such as training and multimedia to external individuals and organisations. We aim to support staff to positively embrace personal, developmental and organisational change and also help to ensure that all our staff are fit to practice in order to provide safe, effective, high quality patient care.
Our achievements
Our recent achievements include in the following; ° Our CQC rating is Good, we have an ambition to get UHS to Outstanding. ° We were awarded a prestigious British Medical Journal award for improving care for older patients with the development of our frailty unit and activity hub. ° Our specialist regional service for patients with muscle-wasting and nerve diseases based at Southampton’s teaching hospitals, has been named a national centre of clinical excellence. The adult neuromuscular service at University Hospital Southampton was awarded the status by charity Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK). ° Our women’s and maternity care at the Princess Anne Hospital was named as being among the best in the world. ° UHS has worked as one of the exemplar sites for NHS England’s Healthy Workplace project. Our ‘Live well and inspire’ programme has promoted and delivered a range of activities, which include providing health checks for all staff. We have also installed a mini health check machine in the front entrance of Southampton General Hospital, which has proven extremely popular with both staff and the public. ° Our leading diabetes consultant scooped a prestigious award for jointly developing an online education programme to help patients, carers and healthcare workers around the world better understand insulin. The project won the Diabetes Education Programmes – Healthcare Professionals category at the tenth annual QiC Diabetes Awards. ° Health minister Nadine Dorries MP has praised a University Hospital Southampton campaign aimed at protecting hospitals from the spread of COVID-19. To coincide with World Patient Safety Day the minister along with Aidan Fowler, national director of patient safety, paid a virtual visit to the Trust to learn more about the COVID ZERO campaign. ° World renowned children’s illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has created a new character exclusively for Southampton Children’s Hospital to help reassure youngsters undergoing operations during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘The Amazing Fred’ has been designed as a theatre mascot for children with the aim of helping them deal with their anxieties. ° A £22m state-of-the-art intensive care unit that will provide 22 new beds for the south’s most critically ill patients has opened at UHS. It features a specialist rehabilitation area where patients can now have physiotherapy without the need to be taken to another part of the hospital. And it will be kitted out thanks to Southampton Hospitals Charity, which has launched a £1m fundraising campaign to pay for decorative items, a private space for families of patients and a dedicated rest area where staff can take a break. ° The £5m project to build a new Children’s Emergency Department as the result of generous support from the public for Southampton Hospital Charity and our partnership with the Murray Parish Trust, been completed. It’s a new child friendly and stimulating environment with elements to enhance the care of patients and make them feel safe and secure.
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° Our investment in IT transformation continued, partly funded by national monies awarded through our recognition as a ‘global digital exemplar’. The informatics team at UHS Digital has overseen the development of a wide range of pioneering projects, to improve the delivery of healthcare services and improve patient outcomes. ° Working in partnership with trusts from across the South, we are the lead organisation of the Wessex NHS Genomic Medicine Centre (GMC). The Wessex NHS GMC is one of 13 centres across the country involved in the national 100,000 Genome Project and serves 3.5 million people from Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and parts of Somerset, Surrey and Sussex.
Clinical research
Working in partnership with the University of Southampton, UHS combines academic and clinical excellence, bringing the latest discoveries into clinical services to improve people’s lives and health, performing world-leading research and conducting trials across most medical specialties. Our aim is to enable Southampton to be a leading centre for clinical research, allowing us to understand more about the conditions we treat and improve our healthcare services. We provide a wide range of opportunities for researchers, patients and industry to get involved in cutting-edge research that will improve the lives of patients for years to come.
Our primary funder is the National Institute for Health Research. Their £27m investment in our clinical trial facilities and cancer, nutrition and respiratory research and is critical to our efforts, as is their wider support of research programmes and individuals’ careers. Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council are equally vital supporters of our work, providing funding for key health areas, especially for our laboratory and very early-stage research.
Useful links
UHS 5 year strategy May 2021 UHS in the news Annual report Our values Trust board Trust board papers CQC ratings Quality improvement framework
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Our Board - Non-Executive Directors
Peter Hollins, C hair . Peter graduated in chemistry from Oxford. In 1973 he joined Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) where he undertook a series of increasingly senior roles in marketing and then general management. Following three years in the Netherlands as general manager of ICI Resins BV, he was appointed chief operating officer of EVC in Brussels, a joint venture between ICI and Enichem of Italy, in 1992. He played a key role in the flotation of the company in 1994, before returning to the UK in 1998 as chief executive officer of British Energy where he remained until 2001. From 2001 onwards he held various chairmanships and non-executive directorships. In 2003 he decided to return to an executive role as chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, where he remained in post until retirement in March 2013.
Jane Bailey. In 1985, Jane joined the pharmaceutical company Glaxo as a management trainee, having graduated from London University with a degree in environmental science and pharmacology. Here she rose to senior commercial vice president, gaining experience of a broad range of disease areas across different regions of the world. She specialised in leading global research and development teams in the formation of strategies to bring new medicines to patients. She also worked to ensure that the medicines developed were supported by robust evidence demonstrating their clinical and cost effectiveness. In delivering this she gained extensive experience of leading large diverse teams across a complex global organisation. For five years, Jane ran her own strategy development consultancy, working across a breadth of healthcare organisations. In 2017 Jane gained an MSc in public health, with distinction, at King’s College, London University. Her studies focused on how to ensure the public are engaged in development of healthcare services and how social theories can help inform effective disease prevention and management. She is a director of Healthwatch Portsmouth.
Dave Bennett. Dave graduated in chemistry from the University of Southampton before entering management consulting, becoming a partner in Accenture’s strategy practice. In 2003 he joined Exel Logistics (later bought by DHL), managing the company’s healthcare business across Europe and the Middle East. During this time, he established NHS Supply Chain, a UK organisation responsible for procuring and delivering medical consumables for the NHS in England, as well as sourcing capital equipment. Dave joined the board of Cable & Wireless as sales director in 2008. He later set up his own strategy consulting practice serving the healthcare sector, completing numerous projects in the UK and the US. Dave has also served as a non-executive director at The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust between 2009 and 2016. He chaired the Trust’s quality committee.
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Professor Cyrus Cooper . is professor of rheumatology and director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit. He's also vice-dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Southampton and professor of epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics (rheumatology and musculoskeletal sciences, University of Oxford). He leads an internationally competitive programme of research into the epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders, most notably osteoporosis. He is president of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, chair of the BHF Project Grants Committee, an emeritus NIHR senior investigator, and associate editor of Osteoporosis International. He has previously served as chairman of the Scientific Advisors Committee (International Osteoporosis Foundation), the MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network and the National Osteoporosis Society of Great Britain. He has also been president of the Bone Research Society of Great Britain and has worked on numerous Department of Health, European Community and World Health Organisation committees and working groups. Prof Cyrus has published extensively (over 900 research papers) on osteoporosis and rheumatic disorders and pioneered clinical studies on the developmental origins of peak bone mass. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE for services to medical research.
Keith Evans. Keith graduated in economics from Cambridge. In 1975 he joined one of the forerunner firms which now comprise PwC, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1978. At PwC he undertook a number of roles in audit, consultancy and corporate finance. He was a partner for over 25 years including being the senior partner for many years at the firm's Southampton office. Since retirement he has taken on several non-executive and director roles. He has also been the expert witness on several major fraud cases. He joined the Board as a non-executive director in January 2020. Keith will chair the Trust’s audit and risk committee.
Jane Harwood. Jane is a Southampton University graduate having completed her BSc in Biology before moving to London to complete her MSc in Applied Hydrobiology. Having completed two years of her PhD she moved out of academia to start working as an internal consultant for the Metropolitan Police. Her career has spanned over 30 years working in senior strategic, corporate and business planning roles for the MPS, Surrey Police and Centrex (the organisation responsible for police training). After a short spell at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council she moved to the Metropolitan Police Authority, leading the change programme to establish the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and completing her MBA. Jane then set up her own consultancy business and worked for a number of public and private sector organisations before returning to Surrey Police as part of the Chief Officer team responsible for HR, Finance and IT. As the collaboration programme across Surrey and Sussex police accelerated she took on the lead for People Services across the two forces and was an active member of the Police CIPD forum. She spent the last two years before retirement leading an IT and change programme across Surrey, Sussex and Thames Valley Police. Jane is vice chair of the national charity Missing People and is also a trustee for the Wooden Spoon charity. Jane still operates as an independent consultant and is currently leading the resident welfare and vulnerability response within the Surrey LRF Covid-19 response.
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Dr Tim Peach ey. Tim qualified as a doctor from Kings College Hospital School of Medicine in 1983. For nearly 20 years, he worked as a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, specialising in pancreatic cancer surgery, liver surgery and liver transplantation. He also developed an interest in medical leadership and management and has held positions such as clinical director, divisional director and medical director at the Royal Free. In 2012, Tim moved into full time management as chief executive of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust until its acquisition by the Royal Free. He then worked as the London associate medical director at the NHS Trust Development Authority before moving to Barts Health NHS Trust as improvement director and subsequently became deputy chief executive. Tim now holds two NHS non-executive posts. In addition to his role at University Hospital Southampton, Tim also serves on the board for Isle of Wight NHS Trust as deputy chair. He is a practicing mediator specialising in the healthcare sector. He also consults for companies in the medical information technology industry.
Executive Directors
David French, Chief Executive Officer . David joined the Trust in February 2016 as chief financial officer and also became deputy chief executive in 2019. He served as interim chief executive from April to September 2018 and took up that role again in November 2020. He read economics and social policy at the University of London before joining ICI plc, where he qualified as a chartered management accountant. David has extensive healthcare experience from the pharmaceutical industry, mostly Eli Lilly and Company where he held many commercial and financial roles in the UK and overseas. He joined the NHS in 2010 as chief financial officer of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has recently completed two terms as a non-executive director of VIVID Housing Limited, a Hampshire-based social housing provider and is currently a director of UHS Estates Limited.
Gail Byrne, Director of Nursing and Organisational D evelopment . Gail joined the Trust in 2010 as deputy director of nursing and head of patient safety. Prior to this, she has worked at the Strategic Health Authority as head of patient safety, and director of clinical services at Portsmouth Hospital. Gail has also worked in Brisbane, Australia as a hospital Macmillan nurse, and as general manager of a special purpose vehicle company for the private finance initiative at South Manchester Hospitals.
Dr Paul Grundy , Medical D irector . Paul graduated from the University of Southampton medical school in 1992. After house officer posts in Southampton General and then Royal Bournemouth, he worked as anatomy demonstrator at UoS and as senior house officer in neurosurgery at Wessex Neurological Centre. Having competed an SHO surgical rotation in Oxford then neurosurgical training and a research degree in Bristol, he spent a year on fellowship in Melbourne before returning to Southampton as a consultant neurosurgeon with a specialist interest in neuro-oncology in 2005. He led a transformation in neurosurgery here that resulted in the department’s innovative pathways and outcomes being acknowledged in the national GIRFT reports. He introduced day-case neurosurgery for brain tumours to the UK and developed new biopsy techniques and popularised awake surgery.
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Paul became care group clinical lead in neurosciences in 2011, then division D clinical director in 2014, deputy medical director in 2019 and at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic became acting medical director. He has simultaneously held a number of national roles with NHS England and specialist bodies, including CRG chair for brain tumours and stereotactic radiosurgery, vice- chair of adult neurosciences CRG, national lead of neurosurgical service transformation program, Honorary Secretary of Society of British Neurological Surgeons and president elect of British Neuro-oncology Society.
He is also passionate about personalised care, shared decision making and continuous quality improvement and innovation.
Joe Teape, Chief Operating Officer. Joe joined the Trust as chief operating officer in December 2019. Previously he was deputy chief executive and director of operations of a large health board in Wales which managed integrated services across three counties including four district general hospitals as well as mental health, learning disability and community services. Prior to this, Joe worked in director roles across finance and strategy within provider acute trusts across the south west of England. Joe is passionate about providing leadership and support for all staff, whatever their profession, and contributing to excellent patient care. He is committed to open and ongoing engagement with the general public and often uses social media to engage with colleagues and with those who have an interest in healthcare
Steve Harris, Chief People Officer. Steve has worked at UHS since 2008 and has held a variety of roles within HR during this time; starting as a divisional HR business partner and progressing to lead the department as HR director in 2017. He was appointed chief people officer in 2020. After graduating in business management from Solent University in 2001, he went on to gain a professional qualification in people management and development and is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He joined the NHS in 2003 from the financial services industry following completion of a graduate management training scheme. His first NHS role was working for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority supporting the implementation of large system-wide workforce projects. Prior to joining UHS, Steve worked in HR for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust and in Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Ian Howard, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ian was appointed to the role of interim chief financial officer in November 2020, having joined the Trust in March 2017 and serving as deputy director of finance since July 2018. He read accounting and business studies at the University of Portsmouth before joining the NHS in 2007 on the national Graduate Management Training Scheme, where he qualified as a chartered management accountant in 2010. He has worked across a variety of roles within the NHS, including Primary Care Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups. Prior to joining UHS in 2017, he worked for NHS England in the Wessex Local Office, where he provided financial leadership and support to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight STP.
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Job Description
Post Title: Chief Strategy Officer
Directorate/Department: Trust Headquarters
Agenda for Change Band : Executive Director
Accountable To : Chief Executive
Accountable for:
° The Director of Planning, Productivity and Performance including: ° Trust Strategy Team ° Planning team ° Cost Improvement and Productivity ° Board Performance ° External Partnerships
Main Purpose:
The Chief Strategy Officer is the executive board member responsible for assisting the Chief Executive Officer with developing, communicating, and executing, the UHS corporate strategy. Working closely with all members of the Executive leadership team, they will also take a leading role in partnership working with organisations in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (ICS). Within the organisation, they will build strong working relationships with the Chief Medical Officer to deliver the Trust’s clinical strategy, with the Chief Financial Officer to lead the Trust’s corporate planning function and with the Chief Nursing Officer to support the implementation of our ‘Always Improving’ transformation programme. They will support the Chief Medical Officer to deliver the Trust’s clinical strategy, and take a leading role in partnership working with organisations in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (ICS)
Working with the Chief Financial Officer, they will lead the Trust’s corporate planning functions, ensuring robust development of sustainable long term plans for UHS
It will be the responsible for championing long term corporate sustainability of health services at UHS, and ensuring UHS is ‘fit for the future’
In addition to their specific personal responsibilities, the Chief Strategy Officer is a full member of the Trust Board. They are expected to make a significant contribution to the development and delivery of the wider Trust agenda, including the determination and implementation of corporate strategies and plans, and the corporate governance and affairs of the organisation as an Executive Director.
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The Chief Strategy Officer is expected to lead with compassion, to champion inclusion, and continue to ensure at UHS we all help to create a culture of belonging.
Key Working Relationships
° Executive Directors and Trust Board ° Divisional Management Teams and key Corporate Directors ° Clinical Leadership ° Partner NHS organisations in the ICS ° Leadership team in the ICS ° Primary Care Networks ° Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council ° NHS Improvement Regional Teams
General Duties
Strategic Development and Delivery
° Lead the delivery of the UHS Corporate 5 year strategy, and provide expertise to the development of other key strategies in the Trust ° To ensure alignment of UHS strategic activities to ICS partner organisations, generating collaborative opportunities, and identifying and working to mitigate risk as these arise ° To ensure structured formal reporting to Board, to the ICS, and to ensure alignment with key governance processes such as the Business Assurance Framework
Partnership working
° Manage key stakeholder relationships across the health economy. Maintaining credibility within stakeholder communities and fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high quality care. ° Through this relationship development ensure that stakeholders are bought into the Trust’s strategic imperatives and we are working together to tackle systemic issues ° Work with partners to drive change and improve patient care, improve health inequality, and redesign pathways across health and social care boundaries. ° Be the Executive lead for specific cross-system projects ° Represent the Trust locally, regionally, nationally and internationally as required. ° Manage the relationships with the commissioners and agree national contracts.
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Performance management
Set a strategic approach to performance management to ensure the Trust aspires to the highest possible standard of patient care (covering all aspects of quality, including access), corresponding to our Strategic Objectives This approach will cover but not be limited to regulatory compliance.
° Establish systems whereby TEC and Trust Board are regularly updated on metrics that indicate progress towards these objectives. ° Support the Executive team by providing the necessary support and analytical information available to them to plan and manage their services. ° Where required, provide assurance to commissioners, the CQC, and NHS Improvement in the form of analyses of the problems, action plans and trajectories to restore performance.
Cost Improvement and Productivity
° To lead on the Trust’s Cost Improvement programmes, delivering against designated cost reduction plans. ° To support the Trust Always Improving agenda, supporting the Chief Nursing Officer with key transformation initiatives
Planning and Strategy
° Take the Exec role for the development of the annual operational plan and the development of business plans. Work with the Chief Financial Officer to develop the Trust capital plan. ° Lead planning responses to national and ICS requirements on behalf of UHS
Corporate Responsibilities
° Role model behaviour in line with the Trust values and NHS constitution. ° To demonstrate compassionate and inclusive leadership and work to generate a sense of belonging in teams within portfolio and as an executive director across the Trust. ° Fulfil statutory responsibilities as a Trust Board member to ensure that the Trust adheres to Monitor’s Code of Governance, national policy, and practice in all of the post-holder’s key areas of responsibility ° Demonstrate personal leadership in the delivery and continuous improvement of high quality, safe, and efficient care ° As an Executive Director of the Board, participate fully in developing, implementing, and monitoring Trust strategies, ensuring all goals and targets are achieved and where possible exceeded ° Provide appropriate information to enable the Trust Board to fulfil its purpose, particularly in respect of its duties on governance and performance monitoring ° Maintain effective communications with other Executive Directors in order to ensure an integrated approach to the delivery of operations ° Take part in the Exec on call rota
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Person Specification
Essential Desirable
Qualifications ° Degree or equivalent experience ° Master’s degree in relevant subject, or equivalent experience training ° Evidence of continued professional required development.
Previous or ° Significant senior management experience ° Knowledge/ experience of the health service relevant in a large complex organisation at or near sector board level experience ° Evidence of successful transformative and necessary ° Evidence of strategic design, planning, and innovative working within health or health related successful implementation into operational settings outcomes ° Experience of being a member of a board in large ° Evidence of setting up systems / processes complex organisation in business / organisation start up ° Senior level experience of ‘deal-making’ in a ° Evidence of improving organisational complex organisation or environment performance in a complex setting
Aptitudes and ° Ability to manage successful strategic skills required partnerships, including building successful relationships between organisations.
° Ability to negotiate, articulate and
influence / persuade others and represent/act as an Ambassador for the Trust ° Experience of managing multiple concurrent projects and conflicting priorities to ensure deadlines are met ° Advanced interpersonal skills including confidence to work at an individual level or in groups comprised of a variety of stakeholders. ° Advanced written communication skills, including the presentation of complex data and writing of corporate reports & presentations and other documentation ° Strong leadership, management skills and high credibility
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Essential Desirable
° Ability to manage a complex workload under pressure to deliver outcomes to fixed deadlines ° Ability to broker effective system wide relationships developing effective alliances and networks across boundaries ° Budget preparation and management experience, evidence of effective budgetary control skill ° Experience of holding Programme budgets for; monitoring budgets, and responsibility for budget-planning for Project Portfolios.
Personal ° Able to demonstrate a clear commitment qualities and personal leadership in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in previous roles. ° Excellent promotion and communications skills in commercial and public sector settings. ° Independent flexible and entrepreneurial thinker, capable of working with ambiguity ° Results focused and resilient in face of resistance ° Empathy with clinical health service goals and values.
Living the ° Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet Trust values: the Trust Values: ° Patients First ° Always Improving ° Working Together
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How to Apply
Key Dates
The closing date for applications will be Friday 10 th September 2021.
Following a long list meeting of the Selection Panel, successful candidates will be invited to attend preliminary interviews with Odgers Berndtson w/c 13 th and 20 th September .
The final interview process with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust will take place on a date to be confirmed w/c 11 October .
How to apply
In order to apply, please submit a comprehensive CV along with a covering letter which sets out your interest in the role and encapsulates the aspects of your experience relevant to the required criteria. Please include the names and addresses of three referees. Referees will not be approached until the final stages and not without prior permission from candidates.
The preferred method of application is online at: www.odgers.com/83685
If you are unable to apply online, please email [email protected]
All applications will receive an automated response.
All candidates are also requested to complete an online Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form which will be found at the end of the application process. This will assist University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in monitoring selection decisions to assess whether equality of opportunity is being achieved. Any information collated from the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Forms will not be used as part of the selection process and will be treated as strictly confidential.
Fit and Proper Person Requirement
The successful applicant will be subject to Occupational Health and Disclosure and Barring Service checks and is subject to the Fit and Proper Persons Requirement (FPPR). All organisations regulated by the Care Quality Commission need to ensure that successful candidates meet the Fit and Proper Persons Requirement (Regulation 5, The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations Act. This means that the care provider must not appoint a director unless:
° The individual is of good character; ° The individual has the qualifications, competence, skills and experience which are necessary for the relevant office or position or the work for which they are employed; ° The individual is able by reason of their health, after reasonable adjustments are made, to properly perform tasks which are intrinsic to the office or position for which they are appointed or to the work for which they are employed;
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° The individual has not been responsible for, been privy to, contributed to or facilitated any serious misconduct or mismanagement (whether lawful or not) in the course of carrying on a regulated activity or providing a service elsewhere which, if provided in England, would be a regulated activity; and ° None of the grounds of unfitness specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4 apply to the individual (e.g. bankruptcy, sequestration and insolvency, appearing on barred lists and being prohibited from holding directorships under other laws); Good character is measured by the criteria set out in Part 2 of Schedule 4 of the Regulations; ° Whether the person has been convicted in the UK of any offence or been convicted elsewhere of any offence which if committed in any part of the UK would constitute an offence; and ° Whether a person has been erased, removed, or struck off a register maintained by a regulator of a health or social work professional body.
Personal data
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