Associate Director of Assurance - Efficiency & Transformation

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 93,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking an Associate Director of Assurance to lead efficiency and transformation initiatives. This pivotal role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, focusing on clinical and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in programme management, change management, and communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse teams effectively. Join a supportive and friendly organization that values its employees and is dedicated to improving health services across the community. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in senior-level programme management within healthcare.
• Proven ability to deliver projects using PRINCE2 and MSP methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective implementation of efficiency and transformation projects.
• Manage financial and physical resources, ensuring project delivery.

Skills

Programme Management

Change Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Planning and Organisation

Stakeholder Management

Problem-solving

Education

Masters Level Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner

MSP Practitioner Certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Associate Director of Assurance - Efficiency & Transformation

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 Trust's 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 management.
• Staff management.
• Information management.
• Communication skills.
• Research and development.
• Engagement.
• Planning and organisation.
• Policy and service development.

About us

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 every one of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.

Job description

Job 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

• Educated to Masters Level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in programme management.
• Qualified to PRINCE2 Practitioner level.
• Qualified to MSP Practitioner 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with advanced keyboard skills.

Financial and Physical Resources

Essential

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

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

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Address

Croydon University Hospital

530 London Road

Thornton Heath

CR7 7YE

Employer's website

https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk/recruitment/ (Opens in a new tab)

£93,903 to £107,412 a year incl HCAS Outer pro rata.