Job summary
- Main area
- Transformation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 331-K18530825
- Employer
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Westmorland General Hospital
- Town
- Kendal
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Transformation (Clinical Strategy)
NHS AfC: Band 8c
''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
This is an exciting time to join UHMBT.
Working within the Strategy and Transformation Department, and joining the Improvement and Redesign Team, this role will play a pivotal role in shaping and supporting the delivery of the Trust's transformation ambitions.
A passion and commitment to the improvement and transformation of clinical services will be key. Alongside having a flair and expertise in working with clinical and operational leaders to design, articulate and make happen significant change to our services for patient and staff benefit.
Main duties of the job
The Associate Director of Transformation (Clinical Strategy) will be responsible for the establishment and delivery of large-scale and strategic transformation programmes, specifically those concerned with the implementation of new models of care that are aligned to the delivery of the Trust’s clinical strategy and are central to sustainability. The role will lead the Trust’s reconfiguration programmes and be the Trust lead for system-wide acute reconfiguration programmes.
The post-holder will be a senior member of the wider Strategy and Transformation Department, regularly deputising for the Director of Strategy and Transformation. They will be required to consistently operate with a high level of political awareness, personal influence and skill, working effectively with internal and external partners, including Executive Directors, Chief Medical Officers, Divisional CMOs, Divisional Directors, other acute providers, commissioners, NHSE, local authorities and patients and carers to deliver programme objectives and outcomes.
The post holder will work with colleagues at all levels, including senior clinicians, executives, project managers and teams across Lancashire and South Cumbria. They will act in a highly autonomous capacity and require high levels of political astuteness.
The post holder will be expected to undertake direct programme management activities on specified work streams relating to optimising the configuration and delivery of clinical services.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for further details around the role and its responsibilities.
Person specification
Education, experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good overall educational preparation
- Postgraduate / doctorate level qualification or significant equivalent management experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Formal leadership qualification
- Extensive, in depth knowledge and experience across a range of relevant areas, including finance, people management and programme management.
- Demonstrable, recent senior management experience in a health care organisation.
- Wide ranging experience of leading major change initiatives – including across organisational boundaries - through to successful delivery, relating to quality, cost and timescales.
- Experience of leading programmes’s through the NHSE Service Change Assurance process and leading public consultation.
- Considerable and demonstrable experience of managing significant change and developing services in difficult or sensitive environments, involving situations of conflict.
- Ability to engage effectively with all professional groups
- Ability to contribute constructively to emerging agenda as part of a Trust wide senior management team
- Understand (and use) different forms of decision making and management styles appropriate to context.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation and persuasion skills
- Evidence of self-motivation, personal drive and resilience, commensurate with grade and role in organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karlyn Forrest
- Job title
- Director of Strategy and Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07483 115244
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