Assistant Director - Outpatient Targeted Delivery | NHS England
| Posting date: | 03 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £88,168 - £101,677 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2024 |
| Location: | Any NHSE base, SE1 8UG |
| Company: | NHS England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6663199/990-COO-6663199-E |
Summary
We are recruiting a substantive assistant director (band 8D) to lead the priority clinical pathways work for the Targeted Delivery team within the Elective Recovery Programme,within the Chief Operating Officer’s Directorate.This role will focus on the delivery of optimised and reformed specialty pathways. The work supports the NHS to deliver Elective Recovery and return to the achievement of Constitutional Standards. You would join our team at a critical and exciting time as we develop patient pathways for the future alongside continuing to tackle the elective care backlog.
Thenational elective recoveryprogramme focuses on increasing and maximising NHS capacity over the next few years. Ourkeyambitionsareeliminatinglongwaiting times for patients andreducing diagnostic waiting times as well as a focus on productivity, including in outpatients. It is expected that there will be a new elective recovery plan required within the next 6 months and therefore an exciting opportunity to contribute to setting the future elective care direction for the NHS. The Targeted Delivery team will need to be agile and respond appropriately to support the NHS to deliver a new set of elective care priorities, including in outpatients.
We are looking for someone with:
• An excellent operational understanding of NHS elective and/or outpatient care, ideally including experience of working in an NHS Trust alongside clinical leaders
• Experience of supporting delivery of complex improvement and change initiatives
• Expertise of programme and project management, leading a team to deliver a complex portfolio (including pathway redesign and executive performance reporting) within agreed timescales, budgets and competing demands
• Experience managing a high performing team working in a complex area
• Excellent relationship management skills with a wide range of both clinical and operational staff, and have held relationships at senior level both internally and externally.
In order to deliver our objectives, the team collaborates closely with key stakeholders across NHSE, including GIRFT, Elective Care IST, Diagnostics, National Clinical Directors, regional colleagues and beyond. There is also a need to regularly connect with key external stakeholder groups, including including Royal Colleges, Specialty Associations and organisations representing the interests of patients.
Elective Recovery and Outpatients team is committed to creating a working environment which values talent, potential, knowledge, experience, skills, inclusive values and behaviours. Our team strives to empower people from all backgrounds and communities. We aim to support staff by having an inclusive and trusted workplace. We aim to eliminate any disadvantage based on age, disability, marriage, civil partnership, race, culture, religion or belief, lack of religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity. NHS England has 10 staff networks offering supportive, diverse communities.
We aim to create an inclusive experience for all candidates, including those with long term health conditions and a learning disability. This includes supporting the neurodiversity of our candidates. If you tell us that you have a disability, neurodiversity or neurodivergence, we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes, including the interview, is fair and equitable.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker routeyou’llusually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website.
This role has a key focus on driving forward work through a clinical lens and alongside senior national clinical leaders on pathway optimisation and delivery over a 1-2 year horizon. For 2024/25 the focus will be on 5 priority specialties (cardiology, respiratory, ENT, gastroenterology and urology), with the wider team also continuing to focus on transformational initiatives in dermatology, including the potential of new technologies. This role also leads and manages a team, and a vital aspect of this role is to support the continued high-quality delivery of the team and enable the effective development and wellbeing of all team members.
More information is provided in the attached Job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Oct 2024