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National Intensive Support Director | NHS England
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £131,301 - £146,450 per annum (ESM 2) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | National, LS1 4PL |
| Company: | Health Education England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6170156/990-S3-COR1308 |
Summary
The Chief Operating Officer Directorate at NHS England is looking for a National Director of Intensive Support for Challenged Systems. This role is uniquely significant as it serves as the senior responsible leader to ensure appropriate support is provided to drive improvements in the most challenged providers or systems.
This presents a fantastic opportunity to be at the core of shaping the NHS priorities, working on a pivotal agenda. The team collaborates with colleagues across NHS England and the NHS to:
• Understand and address the underlying issues in the most challenged systems and trusts.
• Coordinate national improvement support for the most challenged systems and trusts through the Recovery Support Programme (RSP).
• Work with NHSE regional teams to appoint Improvement Directors to lead improvement plans in the most challenged systems and trusts.
• Organise and manage engagement between national executives and the most challenged NHS organisations
As the National Director, the primary focus will be on creating an integrated support offer to tackle financial and quality issues, ensuring sustainable improvement. This involves deploying the most effective improvement interventions at the right time to address the key issues in challenged organisations. This requires developing a sophisticated understanding of the challenges you will work with Regional offices to co-design support for challenged organisations.
The team offers high profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.
Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for.Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.
The post holder will need to:
• Demonstrate sophisticated understanding of the causes and solutions for challenges in given health systems and organisations
• An excellent ability to secure and oversee specialist input from across disciplines, including medical oversight, financial input, and operational improvement support.
• Develop and maintain excellent collaborative relationships with ALB’s, Department of Health and Social Care and regulators to influence, set and implement policy and ensure alignment of interventions to maximise improvements in patient care
• Ensure targeted support through the recovery support programme (RSP) is deployed in a timely and sensitive manner so that all SoF4 organisations and systems receive targeted support.
• A close working relationship with the Improvement Directorate drawing down expertise and capacity as agreed with regions, systems and organisations.
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024