Job summary
- Main area
- Supplies and Procurement
- Grade
- Grade G
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-DSFS-7273987
- Employer
- Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Calow
- Salary
- £75,000 - £95,000 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 10:00
- Interview date
- 24/07/2025
Employer heading
Assistant Director ICS Procurement Delivery
Grade G
Job overview
DSFS Ltd are looking into recruiting the right person into the role of Assistant Director ICS Procurement Delivery, The Assistant Director will work across the ICS and surrounding partners to lead on development and implementation of a collaborative benefits delivery programme and wider collaborative procurement strategy, acting as a focal point for joint working in Derbyshire and beyond. They will be a recognised procurement professional with experience providing strategic advice and, critically delivery of results through existing teams, in conjunction with the SRO to all partner organisations.
Main duties of the job
This role takes responsibility for translating the commercial vision for developing procurements approach nationally, to ensure the success of collaborative procurement in Derbyshire / partner ICS’s that delivers efficiencies in our contracts, consumables, people, systems and processes collaboratively. This is about building more out of the teams we have by using their expertise differently in a collaborative space, while recognising the need for local differences. The post holder will also line manage the ICS central team in any Hub and Spoke type arrangement (along with any wider collaborative appointments in future) and will deputise for the Director of Commercial and Strategy (SRO) at National, Regional and ICS Meetings as required to build pace and presence.
Working for our organisation
Offering a competitive package, Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Benefits include matched pension contributions up to 8%, generous leave and support benefits package, easy access mental health support, long service awards and flexible work from home / office arrangements. For staff currently employed in the NHS were happy to recognise your length of service towards your annual leave and similar accrued benefits.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download full job description to review deliverable responsibilities for this exciting position.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Master’s Degree or similar- equivalent experience.
- • CIP’s qualified or relevant equivalent experience (demonstrable).
- • Experience at a corporate level of working with Boards /NED’s.
- • Experience of successfully driving change and transformational programmes.
- • Understanding of organisational cultural impacts on performance and productivity
- • Provision of services in the healthcare industry in a managerial role, able to demonstrate a good understanding of operational delivery
- • Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of a variety of NHS sectors
- • Proof of successful strategy development and implementation
- • Able to create/shape innovative strategic vision for the best possible long term benefit of the organisation and patients
- • Exceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- • Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- • Proven track record of translating strategy into effective delivery.
- • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- • Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required on difficult issues.
Desirable criteria
- • Leadership Qualification
- • Experience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- • Experience of NHS and private sector Board support and engagement
- • Excellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
- • Significant Senior management experience in a healthcare setting with speciality knowledge across a range of disciplines
- • Financial management and business management skills including the ability to set and manage budgets on a corporate level.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience at a senior management level.
- • Experience of leading service improvement projects and complex organisational change, whilst developing and maintaining high standards of quality
- • Evidence of appropriate relevant professional development
- • Demonstrable experience of successful business planning and development of robust business cases.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Corporate responsibility for policy implementation and service development across a range of specialist services
- • Involvement at a leadership level on issues related to clinical governance, monitoring and standard setting, including risk management and health and safety
- • Exceptional communicator, able to create impact and demonstrate proactive customer relationship awareness
- • Understanding of the dynamics within a business arena and balance against political environment.
- • Horizon scanning skills using a range of tools and techniques
- • Able to successfully engineer innovative solutions
- • Able to make compelling evidence-based arguments to persuade key stakeholders of the need to test new approaches to health and care delivery
- • Experience of working on a strategic task and finish project at a regional or national level
- • Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of both primary and secondary care settings.
- • Excellent understanding and experience of change management and service improvement and transformation
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Inclusive and developmental personal style and approach
- • Inspiring and motivational
- • Dynamic with personal impact
- • Integrity
- • Tenacity
- • Emotional resilience
- • Effective under pressure
- • Portrays self-belief, self-awareness and drive for improvement
- • Resourceful
- • Highly professional role model
- • Ability to use professional mediation to reach solutions
- • Ability to build excellent working relationships with a range of individuals and all levels and from all specialities
- • Ability to work across sites
- • Ability to work extra hours at reasonable short notice
- • Access to vehicle/travel between sites in the Chesterfield/Derbyshire area
Desirable criteria
- • Commitment to values and principles of the NHS and Leading the DSFS Way
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stuart Ellis
- Job title
- Commercial & Strategy Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 512877
- Additional information
Alternatively contact Gail Henson
01246 513143
who will be able to arrange a time for us to talk
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