Job vacancy: Strategy and Partnerships Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

Job summary

Main area: Strategy and Partnerships
Grade: VSM
Contract: 12 months (This is a fixed-term / secondment position for up to 12 months to cover the maternity leave of the substantive postholder.)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 190-1161-DIR

Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Northern General Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £125,476.63 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/04/2026 23:59
Interview date: 03/06/2026

Strategy and Partnerships Director

VSM

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on the role and its main responsibilities, please see the accompanying job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Undergraduate degree qualification
Educated to Master’s level in a relevant discipline or with extensive, directly relevant experience.
Evidence of ongoing personal development, particularly in leadership.

Other Factors

Essential criteria

Flexibility with working hours.

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant senior management experience gained within a large and complex healthcare organisation
Significant senior experience of working in partnership and how to progress meaningful change through partnerships
Expert knowledge and experience of strategic development and planning within a large and complex operating environment.
Delivery of complex change within challenging circumstances.
Track record of leading innovation and change to support the delivery of patient centred services across organisational boundaries
Experience of managing budgets within a complex financial regimen and delivery, especially in constrained financial circumstances.
Significant Capital Planning experience in managing strategic and complex projects across a range of different services.
Experience of leading, preparing and writing business cases for major developments and their delivery
Sound understanding of the wider NHS policy agenda and demonstrable ability to translate national and local policy into action
Evidence of contribution to a wider corporate agenda.
Experience of peer review or accreditation processes for services.
Experience of managing the HR environment of a multi-disciplinary workforce, application of organisational policies, wider employment law and practice.

Special Skills / Aptitudes

Essential criteria

Highly developed leadership and communication skills
Team player able to work across complex, multi-disciplinary matrix arrangements.
Highly developed interpersonal skills, emotional and social intelligence.
Ability to manage complex change within Directorates and at the interface with other Directorates and organisations.
Commitment to NHS values and their delivery.
Highly effective and credible personal delivery, both oral and written.
Personal resilience.
Credibility in a complex clinical environment.
Political astuteness.
Ability to coach others to succeed and deliver.
Excellent communication skills– able to put compelling propositions together and to communicate and present complex information on a formal and informal basis to large groups.

Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here.

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If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.

Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.

All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.

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