Associate Director of Assurance - Efficiency & Transformation

Associate Director of Assurance - Efficiency & Transformation

Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.

Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people's homes all across the borough.

We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action - our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud. #choosecroydon

Job overview

Associate Director of Assurance - Efficiency & Transformation

Full Time, Permanent, Band 8D

The Associate Director of Assurance will play a critical role ensuring that Croydon delivers on efficiency and transformational plans. Supporting the Director of Transformation the post holder will work with the executive team, senior clinical and operational colleagues and corporate teams to ensure the effective implementation and monitoring of the Trusts
efficiency and transformation projects and programmes to focus on clinical and operational excellence in a way that maximises the engagement of individuals and clinical teams
across the Trust.

Please note that successful candidates will be invited to interview on 12th May

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description for full details, but listed are the main duties:

• Providing assurance that the identified programmes of work have the appropriate programme and project management infrastructure in place to ensure delivery.
• Financial and physical resources
• Staff Management
• Information management
• Communication Skills
• Research and Development
• Engagement
• Planning and Organisation
• Policy and Service Development

Working for our organisation

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team. Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon. We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification***

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters Level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in programme management
• Qualified to PRINCE2 Practioner level
• Qualified to MSP Practinioner Certification
• Significant proven experience of delivering and mentoring others to successfully deliver projects using PRINCE2 and MSP methodologies
• Significant proven experience in delivering change management within a Healthcare setting
• Knowledge of health and care policy developments
• Proficient in MS Office applications particularly Word, Powerpoint and Excel

Communication

Essential criteria

• Strong ability to prepare and produce concise and insightful communications using highly complex or sensitive information for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Ability to work collaboratively across the local health economy
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders

Analytical

Essential criteria

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse highly complex facts and situations
• Ability to build and adapt excel based programme reporting tools
• Ability to review and evaluate business cases and project initiation documents

Planning Skills

Essential criteria

• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines
• Works with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market
• Inputs the strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams

Management skills

Essential criteria

• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility

Physical skills

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with advanced keyboard skills

Financial and Physical Resources

Essential criteria

• Previously responsible for budget, involved in a budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Previously responsible for oversight of delivery of large scales efficiency programme

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

If you decide to apply for this post, but do not hear back from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 201.3KB)
• CHS DBS Policy Statement (PDF, 53.0KB)
• Map of Croydon University Hospital (PDF, 95.6KB)
• CHS Accomodation (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Croydon Trust Values (PDF, 324.9KB)