Corporate Planning Manager

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking a motivated Corporate Planning Manager to enhance their planning and business development team. This role will involve significant responsibilities in business planning for multiple units while supporting the Director of Healthcare Planning. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the NHS, a degree or equivalent, and strong understanding of healthcare policies. This position offers a chance to positively impact patient care and service delivery in a complex organization.

Qualifications

• Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS and acute health services.
• A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy.
• Experience of working within an acute trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide the professional lead on business planning.
• Coordinate business development and monitor projects.
• Support the Director of Healthcare Planning.

Skills

Knowledge of NHS planning systems

Change Management theory

Education

Degree or equivalent management qualification

Managerial qualification to master's level

Job description

Weare seeking to recruit a motivated Corporate Planning Manager to join thePlanning and Business Development team working across the Leeds TeachingHospitals NHS Trusts main and peripheral sites.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is a complex organisation, and our aim is to deliver thehighest quality service for our patients, and we are consistently looking to improve our services in order to do so. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in making this happen for our patients.

Thiscorporate planning manager post will have split responsibilities, part of thepost will be responsible for delivering healthcare planning for specific CSUswhilst the other part of the post will support the Director of HealthcarePlanning in developing and implementing the Trusts multi year plan.

Thisrole offers excellent opportunities to build upon skills in servicetransformation and redesign across a range of services whilst taking theplanning lead on all major reconfigurations currently underway within theorganisation.

AsCorporate Planning Manager, you will work at senior management levelalongside Clinical Directors and Assistant Directors of Operations and tomake a visible contribution to the business success of CSUs across the Trust.

Youwill need a strong focus on improving patient care through the developmentand delivery of local business plans and long term complex strategicprojects.

Main duties of the job

Provide the professional lead onbusiness planning in each CSU and to ensure that business cases fordevelopment/service change are of the highest standard, in the correct formatand seek approvals as relevant to the case requirements.

Take a co-ordinating role within eachCSU in order to bring together the work of the corporate functionsfinance/HR/planning so resulting in joined up thinking.

Take the lead and drive business basedevelopment, often in excess of £1 million; to sponsor all non-clinicalbuilding and engineering schemes and to tightly monitor progress to time andcost on behalf of the CSU, liaising directly with the CSU General Manager on a regular basis.

Work with each CSU to develop casesof need for complex medical and scientific equipment and for IT systems.

Support the Director of HealthcarePlanning in developing the Trusts multi-year plan, incorporating demand andcapacity modelling to ensure sustainable services and alignment with nationaland local priorities.

Coordinate governance and reportingof the plan throughout the year, providing assurance to the Board andcommittees through robust performance monitoring, progress updates, and riskmanagement.

Engage and collaborate with clinicaland corporate teams, ensuring strategic priorities are translated intoactionable programmes and that stakeholders are aligned and informed throughoutthe planning cycle.

About us

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is one of the largest employers in Leeds, employing over20,000 staff and providing care to 1.6 million patients every year. The Estatesand Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one of thelargest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, we provide arange of Estates & Facilities management services and ensure our buildingsand environments are fit for purpose, clean and safe.

Whetherwe're cleaning wards, maintaining buildings, monitoring environmental impact,providing staff childcare, delivering hot meals to patients, or patrolling oursites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds Way Values,we are committed to creating the best place to work and being the employer ofchoice for estates and facilities in the region.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' membersof our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the rightto close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you doexperience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, pleasebear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact ifyou have any questions.

Job responsibilities

Forfurther details regarding the role and responsibilities of the job pleaserefer to Job Description

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS with understanding of current changes and developments and particular understanding of acute health services.
• A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy
• Experience of working within an acute trust

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent management qualification
• Managerial qualification to masters or equivalent level of experience

Skills & behaviours

• A theoretical and practical knowledge of NHS planning systems and frameworks, underpinned by significant relevant experience, to a degree which enables the postholder to influence organisational policy
• Change Management theory

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.