Job summary
- Main area
- Transformation
- Grade
- Band 8C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-594
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £78,163 - £88,884 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/05/2024
Employer heading
Transformation Lead
Band 8C
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has an established Transformation function, with Executive Director leadership. The team brings strategic focus and structure to change projects, and ensures alignment with the Trust’s overall strategic objectives, both as an organisation and across the local health economy.
This is a key role, helping us to reconfigure our ways of working. The team is delivering results, and you will help us continue to do that. You will report to a Programme Lead, as part of our Transformation Team. The position is based at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, in our team office and will require ad-hoc travel to our other sites Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital as part of the role.
You will have experience of implementing large-scale medium-term transformation projects and be able to hit the ground running. It is a rare, senior opportunity to affect real change within our Trust, and North-West London, and ultimately improve the lives of our patients.
Main duties of the job
- Lead on ad-hoc corporate transformation projects (scoping the issue, creating the project charter with the internal client, assisting with creation of a tactical plan with timing plan, and ongoing coaching and leadership to assure delivery).
- Work with wider stakeholders to ensure that all projects (clinical or corporate) take a holistic and pragmatic view of the issues arising, proposed solutions and benefits realisation.
- Be a ‘critical friend’ to other Transformation tactical plans that are under way
- Role model leadership behaviours and Trust values, working as part of a collegiate team and ensuring an on-going culture of continuous improvement
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bachelor’s degree (or relevant occupational experience).
- Qualification in Change/Project Management/Six Sigma
- Improvement /change management courses undertaken (in-house or commercial) – evidenced
Desirable criteria
- Post –graduate management qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of, and experience of using, operational improvement tools and techniques i.e. lean, six sigma
- Experience of objective setting, performance reviews and performance management
- High level knowledge of systems thinking approach
Desirable criteria
- Private sector improvement consultancy experience
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Project and programme management skills and experience.
- Team building skills
- Advanced keyboard skills, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Highly developed influencing and negotiation skills which need to overcome significant barriers to acceptance.
- Able to produce reports using data that is comprehensive and meets requirements of operational partners.
Desirable criteria
- Financial skills including financial analysis, planning and option appraisal.
- Coaching skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jeremy Butler
- Job title
- Director of Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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