Job overview

Chief Strategy and Planning Officer

Division: Corporate

Band: VSM

Interview date: TBC

This role is open to applicants in the Kent and Medway ICB System ONLY

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join us as Chief Strategy and Planning Officer to provide strategic leadership, corporate oversight and organisational grip across Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The postholder will play a central role in shaping and delivering the Trust’s strategic objectives, supporting improvements in quality, access, productivity, workforce experience and reputation, while ensuring that strategic ambition is translated into clear, deliverable plans. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference at Medway and contribute to the Trust’s longer-term strategic plan.

Main duties of the job

The CSO will hold a broad, integrated portfolio spanning strategy and transformation, system transformation and partnerships, digital and data, estates and infrastructure, major capital, corporate communications and engagement, and the Trust Charity. This portfolio is central to the Trust’s ambition to modernise its estate and ways of working, improve staff and patient experience, and deliver sustainable performance for the population served by Medway.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.