Senior Transformation Lead - Band 8b

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Senior Transformation Lead will develop and drive the development of strategic transformation plans/projects across the Mental Health Collaboratives for Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE).

They will provide expert knowledge, skills, and interventions to influence and challenge the achievement of service deliverables in line with the Mental Health Collaboratives overall strategic objectives.

The Senior Transformation Lead will take a lead specifically for one of the SNEE Alliances (Ipswich and East Suffolk/ West Suffolk or North East Essex) for the overall Adult Mental Health Programme whilst also taking responsibility for assigned SNEE ICB wide pieces of work.

The Senior Transformation Lead will work closely with the other members of the SNEE ICB Mental Health Team and ICB directorates to ensure the delivery of the programme.

Deputise for the Head of Mental Health System Change and the Deputy Director of Mental Health Transformation as appropriate.

This role will involve working with all health providers, social care, local government and VCSE organisations as required to transform and develop services for our SNEE ICB population.

The post carries specific leadership and performance responsibility for:

Mental Health Transformation

The post holder will:

Have an in depth understanding of how the ICP and Mental Health Collaboratives operate and utilise this to drive the delivery of the strategic programme.

Work closely with key stakeholders (such as mental health providers, NHSE/HEE, transformation leads, clinicians, Executive Directors, staff, Integrated Care Academy).

Person Specification

Other

• The ability to work effectively and flexibly under pressure.
• Strong compassionate and inclusive leadership influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• A collaborative management style, which recognises and values personal contributions and encourages and motivates team working and continuous quality improvement.
• Skills and experience of working in partnership with trade union colleagues and staff representatives.
• Demonstrates commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours.
• Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion.

Equality and Diversity

• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Educated to masters level or equivalent professional experience with highly developed specialist commissioning, transformation and service development knowledge over a significant period.
• Other relevant training/project management qualifications.
• Good understanding of Organisational Design and Change and the role these play in service transformation.
• Experience in developing and delivering service redesign programmes in a large complex organisation.
• Experience in providing professional leadership and advice to stakeholders, clinicians and managers on strategic planning and development issues.
• Track record of successful strategic partnership working.
• Experience of working with senior managers and clinicians including Board level directors.
• Proven track record of successfully leading teams to develop and deliver strategies/plans, culture change and organisation effectiveness.
• Experience of leading the development of transformation projects and strategies to enable service transformation.
• Significant experience and track record of delivering change and transformation to improve capacity, capability, and efficiencies.
• Experience of budget management.
• Evidence of continual professional development.
• Understanding of the broader strategic and policy context for delivery of health services.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of complex change management.
• Service budget, financial management, contract management and performance experience.
• Knowledge of best practice in recruitment and retention, employee relations, policy and procedure, staff engagement and wellbeing.
• Capacity to think strategically and take a whole system approach.
• The ability to analyse complex issues, to think and plan to achieve both tactical and strategic objectives, and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures.
• The skills to evaluate and learn from outcomes, with a clear commitment to innovation, learning and improvement.

Communication Skills

• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information; barriers to understanding; present complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large groups/ communicate in hostile, antagonistic atmosphere.
• Communicates with internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets, strategic objectives.
• Involves negotiation and diplomacy; undertakes presentations to staff groups and the public/ conveys highly contentious information in atmosphere of proposed major change.
• Excellent leadership, influencing skills and ability to demonstrate professional credibility.
• Able to lead and motivate others.
• Excellent data analysis skills and the ability to deliver complex information.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills with the ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, required when communicating in a highly emotive atmosphere relating to workforce redesign.
• The ability to identify, define, promote, communicate, and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective management processes, and rational and timely decision taking.
• The ability to work in partnership with clinicians and health care professionals within and outside the ICB and a partnership approach to working across organisations.
• Highly effective skills and effectiveness in handling sensitive conflict resolution, facilitation/ mediation, and management.
• Ability to write and present concise and effective committee papers, business cases and contracts.

Autonomy

• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
• Experience of researching best practice interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB

Address

Endeavour House

8 Russell Road

Ipswich

Suffolk

IP1 2BX

https://suffolkandnortheastessex.icb.nhs.uk/