Corporate Planning Manager (XN09)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Leeds is seeking a Corporate Planning Manager to drive long-term strategic planning and business development within the NHS. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of NHS frameworks, significant experience in the healthcare sector, and a relevant degree or managerial qualification. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and making impactful contributions to patient care, supporting numerous strategic projects across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Understanding of NHS policy and current developments.
• Experience in acute health services.
• Ability to influence organisational policy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver long-term strategic plans.
• Ensure planning rules are followed.
• Drive modernization in clinical services.
• Provide professional lead on business planning.

Skills

Knowledge of NHS planning systems

Project management

Understanding clinical specialties

Change Management Theory

Autonomous work

Education

Degree or equivalent management qualification

Managerial qualification at 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 toimprove our services in order to do so. In this role, you will play a pivotalpart in making this happen for our patients.

Thiscorporate planning manager post will focus on the development of non-clinicalestate across the organisation, delivering on the strategic aims of theestates strategy and supporting our staff to deliver the best care forpatients.

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

in this role you will:

Work with senior CSU representatives and corporate functions to develop and deliver long term strategic plans, often impacting across the Trust and often requiring external commissioner involvement.

• To embed the Trustwide Strategic Planning Framework within CSUs and to ensure that the planning rules of engagement are followed and updated to meet the developing needs of the organisation.
• Promote the need to focus on top Trust priorities and performance improvement, in particular to facilitate each service in undertaking analysis work to ensure fact based service planning.
• Work with internal and external colleagues to promote and drive modernisation as an essential pre requisite of the planning of clinical services and to continually question the status quo
• Provide the professional lead on business planning in each CSU and to ensure that business cases for development/service change are of the highest standard, in the correct format and seek approvals as relevant to the case requirements.
• Take a co-ordinating role within each CSU in order to bring together the work of the corporate functions finance/HR/planning so resulting in joined up thinking
• Take the lead and drive business base development, often in excess of £1 million; to sponsor all non-clinical building and engineering schemes and to tightly monitor progress to time and cost on behalf of the CSU, liaising directly with the CSU General Manager on a regular basis.

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. TheEstates and Facilities team keep the Trust's sites running and manage one ofthe largest estate portfolios across the NHS. With over 2,300 staff, weprovide a range of Estates & Facilities management services and ensureour buildings and 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 patrollingour sites, we support the delivery of patient care. Guided by our Leeds WayValues, we are committed to creating the best place to work and being theemployer of choice for estates and facilities in the region.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for the post of Corporate Planning Manager within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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 and its application/consequences in the Trusts environment.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge across multiple disciplines e.g. clinical services, clinical support services, business functions
• Experience of working within an acute trust

Qualifications

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

Skills and 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 polic
• Experience/knowledge of project management and managing major service changes
• Understanding and knowledge of a range of clinical specialties.
• Work autonomously with the ability to plan and organise, to plan own time to maximum effect and to delegate responsibility and authority appropriately
• Apply a high degree of knowledge and experience in the interpretation of national and local policy, using it to manage conflict, uncertainty and variation between policy and local circumstances.
• Work in partnership across boundaries with staff, patient and user groups.
• 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.