Job summary
- Main area
- admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7012280A
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Strategy Director - Securing the future Programme (Band 8d)
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
Following on from the government's announcement in January confirming the Airedale New Hopital Programme is in the NHP first wave, we have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Strategy Director to join us in developing and embedding our clinical strategies for the new hospital for Airedale.
This is a once in a generation opportunity to be involved in a major hospital development and we are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Lead to join our team and help to take our scheme forward.
The postholder will be comfortable operating in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, and be adept at fostering collaboration within the operating environment as well as demonstrating good judgement, offering guidance and support. They will role model behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, even-handedness, involvement, and impact, and encourage similar behaviours in colleagues.
The programme team is a newly developing team and will be based at Airedale General Hospital whilst offering a range of flexible and agile working opportunities. There is likely to be a small amount of off-site travel to support local events and activities as required.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Strategy Director is responsible for ensuring that clinical quality and patient care remain at the heart of the planning and delivery of both our structural works and the development of a new hospital under the Securing the Future Programme.
The postholder will be responsible for developing the clinical strategy for the programme to drive excellent clinical and operational outcomes and enable the programme team to develop hospital designs that maximise benefit and safeguard future service delivery.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Strategy Director will chair the Clinical Workstream, including all aspects of clinical engagement relating to the clinical strategy and out of hospital model of care.
Acting as the principal clinician on the programme, the Clinical Strategy Director will participate in the New Hospital Programme’s national clinical workstream, acting as the key interface with national colleagues and interpreting national guidance, policy and practice into the Airedale new hospital scheme. They will work closely with the Programme Director, Head of Transformation, Clinical Design Lead and Head of Technical to ensure strong alignment between the clinical, digital and estate design workstreams.
The postholder will work closely with the Trust’s Executive Medical Director, Chief Nurse and Head of Transformation to define the Target Operating Model for the new hospital supported by the Workforce team and will ensure it is aligned to the emerging national guidance and the Workforce Plan.
The Clinical Strategy Director will retain overall responsibility for developing and embedding an assurance framework that supports decision-making in relation to clinical quality and alignment to national standards. They will also provide clinical input and oversight into the RAAC programme as required to minimise operational impact in relation to structural works, working alongside AGH Solutions Ltd and the Trust’s Chief Operating Officer.
For a more comprehensive list of duties please refer to the attached JD and PS
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's level and equivalent experience of working at a senior clinical and operational level in relevant specialist area.
- Relevant clinical professional registration (i.e., HCPC/ NMC / GMC).
- Significant evidence of continuing professional development through short courses or postgraduate training.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level.
Desirable criteria
- Government Major Projects Leadership Programme
- Other project/programme management qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS Constitution and ‘Understanding the New NHS’
- Comprehensive understanding of the New Hospital Programme and national RAAC programme.
- Extensive understanding of patient safety, patient experience and staff experience.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Positive and proactive approach to clinical engagement and leadership.
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.
- Recognised credible clinical leader who can form and manage high performance, output driven teams.
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication, negotiation, persuasive and facilitation skills and able to demonstrate an ability to manage conflict, seek resolution and influence peers and colleagues.
- Ability to communicate in highly emotive or antagonistic environment, including to large groups in a politically aware and sensitive manner.
- Ability to clearly communicate the “bigger picture” and help others understand and deliver the vision whilst successfully navigating challenges.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Held a senior clinical leadership role in an NHS organisation and have experience of working on clinical transformation and change projects.
- Experience of employing recognised improvement methodologies.
- Experience of working in partnership and collaboration with other health and care organisations to develop care pathways.
- Experience of matrix working and demonstrable experience in managing competing priorities.
- Experience of managing contentious and challenging conversations with multiple stakeholder groups to achieve organisational or programme goals.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical leadership in a major works project.
- Involvement in hospital design and responsibility for operational readiness.
- Experience of major programmes and projects including leading on elements of transformational change at pace.
- Success in moving hospital sites / decant planning.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Rebecca Whitehouse
- Job title
- Head of Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535652511
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