Associate Director NHS Elect

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in London seeks an Associate Director to lead the measurement team. This role involves supporting organizations through improvement programs and requires strong strategic skills and experience in coaching at a senior level. The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate degree and expertise in measurement methodologies, eager to contribute to transformative healthcare initiatives.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development or equivalent experience.
• Experience in QI coaching at a Senior Management level.
• Ability to lead, engage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to organisations within a complex portfolio.
• Lead the co-design and implementation of support programmes.
• Create and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Expert knowledge of measurement for improvement

Expert in delivering Capacity and demand workshops

Expert in MS Access

Expert in Excel

Expert in research methods

Service improvement experience

Ability to analyze complex information

Education

Postgraduate degree or equivalent experience

Management leadership or research qualification

Tools

Minitab

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

NHS Elect has been delivering support across the health service for more than 20 years, through our membership model, improvement networks and consultancy programmes. We fully understand the challenges faced by our healthcare colleagues and are uniquely positioned within the NHS to work in partnership to deliver cost-effective, sustainable outcomes that make a real difference to patients and staff. We operate across the UK and beyond, with clients at a local, regional and national level.

What we are looking for:

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the organisation for an Associate Director (Band 8B). The post holder will work in the Improvement Network division of NHS Elect. The Associate Director will work in the measurement team, under the director for measurement, responsible for a wide portfolio of work across the organisation, with a focus on measurement for improvement and capacity and demand.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for providing support to organisations within a complex portfolio within the expert areas of expertise across the network ' of multi site systems. Employing a high degree of strategic awareness and an ability to read an work with local organisational cultures is essential.
• Lead the successful co-design, improvement and implementation of support programmes.
• Postholder will be responsible for creating and maintaining a positive working relationship with colleagues within the team, across the organisation and with external stakeholders when relevant.
• Working closely with NHS Elect team colleagues to co-design and deliver support programmes in line with organisational objectives.
• To embed a culture of continuous improvement to attract, develop and retain the best staff to enable the delivery of high quality clinical services.
• The post holder will need to be able to understand the intention so board level sponsors to reflect them in the work NHS Elect does for organisations across the network.
• The role will be highly autonomous and the post holder will have a high level of freedom to act independently, assessing customer needs to design and deliver support programmes that align with the organisational needs with expert knowledge of OD interventions, an ability of diagnose appropriate interventions based on organisational context and an ability to use personal presence and interpersonal skills to maintain an adult learning environment.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development or equivalent experience.
• Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent experience.
• Management leadership or research qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Formal training in an adult learning discipline such as coaching or Organisational devilment
• Attained or working towards a Masters level qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Leading the measurement and/or capacity and demand components of a national programme.
• Experience in QI coaching at a Senior Management level.
• Experience of presenting at national conferences.
• Demonstrable experience of publishing abstracts
• Ability to lead, engage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams from bands 2-7 in training
• Experience of line management of front line staff in the NHS from bands 2-7
• Experience of using virtual platforms eg Teams, Zoom, for delivery of workshops and meetings online
• Experience of designing and delivering adult learning workshops
• Experience of working across and NHS wide network
• Working at a senior level at band 8b
• Expert in nationally recognised improvement methodology programmes

Desirable criteria

• Q Community member

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Expert knowledge of measurement for improvement
• Expert in delivering Capacity and demand workshops
• Expert in working with large datasets
• Expert in MS Access, Excel and Minitab
• Expert in research methods
• Expert knowledge in at least one the NHS Elect membership offer areas of expertise; career Planning, coaching and mentoring, customer care, facilitating groups and teams, leadership development, organisational development, quality and service improvement, staff welling, strategy and systems.
• Service improvement experience
• Analyse complex information to make operational decisions

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 381.1KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)