Head of Operational Change (EPR) | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6287638/214-CEN-6287638 |
Summary
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals are at the beginning of our EPR journey and will be selecting suppliers during Q3 2024/25.
We are seeking a Head of Operational Change to join us and support our EPR journey. This is an exciting role and the successful candidate will be able to shape and support our journey whilst working closely with other departments across the Trust.
The post will report to the Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer/EPR Programme Director and will be part of the senior management team for the EPR programme alongside the Head of EPR Applications, Head of EPR People and Head of EPR Technical. These roles will take forward the EPR programme over the next 4 years at SFH.
The Head of Operational Change is responsible for four key workstreams for the programme covering:
• Benefits realisation
• Communications
• Training
• Business change
We are looking for a knowledgeable, NHS operational leader with a talent and enthusiasm for driving change across the organisation.
Previous experience of managing large-scale transformation and benefits realisation programmes is important coupled, with the operational leadership to join our exciting EPR programme.
Working as a key member of our EPR Programme team you will drive transformational change across our hospitals to deliver successful and wide engagement with our EPR programme, ensuring that the intended benefits of the programme can be fully realised.
• Managing the overall workstreams for Benefits, Business Change, Communications and Training for the EPR programme ensuring coordinated plans are in place
• Report to the EPR Programme Board on benefits baselining, benefits planning and realisation.
• Responsible for monitoring the scope and progress of the changes in working practice and benefits planning/realisation to ensure that the benefits set out in the FBC are owned operationally .
• Holding accountability for understanding the underlying configuration, decision support and working processes that will be required deliver the benefits plan and enable associated benefits realisation.
• Ensuring that the benefits plan complies with corporate and departmental policies and meets all statutory regulations and requirements.
• Identifying benefits related risks, report and manage project risks and take appropriate steps to mitigate all identified risks and issues.
• Holding overall accountability for base-lining the benefits in each specialty area to ensure that best practice measures are applied when planning the benefits.
• Advising and providing recommendations to the EPR Programme Board/Trust Board on EPR benefits and realisation.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more detail, please see the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024
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