Candidate Brief for the Position of Chief Strategy Officer University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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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 odgersberndtson.com 1 Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Contents About University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 3 Job Description 11 Person Specification 14 How to Apply 16 odgersberndtson.comodgersberndtson.com 2 Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 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. odgersberndtson.com 3 Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 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. odgersberndtson.com 4 Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 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. odgersberndtson.com 5 Chief Strategy Officer | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust ° 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