Deputy Director of Transformation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Our transformation programme supports better care for patients, better experience of staff, and better use of resources.

This role will lead on the implementation of complex transformational service changes across our organisation. You will lead our clinical productivity programme, including improvements to pathways to achieve best practice GIRFT standards, partnership with other acute organisations to align best practices across NWL, and supporting service redesign, capital investment, and service configuration projects.

As Deputy Director for Transformation, you will deputise for the Director of Strategy and Transformation as required, representing the team in board, executive, and operational meetings.

Main duties of the job

• Lead on the delivery of a trust-wide portfolio of transformation programmes to build high quality, sustainable services, including new clinical pathways or models of care.
• Hold responsibility for transformational input into service reconfiguration and transfers in the context of large-scale improvement programmes across the Trust and beyond into the wider health and social care sector.
• With the Director of Strategy and Transformation and Executive Directors, develop a long-term strategy for improving the delivery of financial and operational sustainability through transformational service change.
• Lead on the integration of the national Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme into the transformation programme, enabling divisional delivery of best clinical practice.
• Work with the divisions on large strategic business cases related to transformational service change, ensuring that the costs, benefits, risks, and income and expenditure of such schemes are fully understood and prepared for presentation to the relevant committee for approval. Where developments encompass services provided by more than one division, the post holder will be expected to lead the whole development.
• Work closely with the Director of Strategy and Transformation and other senior leaders in the Transformation team to create a high-performing, supportive, and service-focused team culture. Line manage, coach, mentor, and support the professional development of team members.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as a 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Education

• Educated to Masters level in a relevant area or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.

Knowledge and experience

• At least ten years' experience in health or social care.
• Experience of developing large scale trust-wide savings plans and supporting the delivery of these.
• Experience in delivering transformational change at a large scale.
• Experience of developing and leading improvement projects that span across multiple NHS organisations.

Skills, abilities and attributes

• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious concepts to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement, and dealing effectively with hostile or emotional responses.
• The ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources internal and external.
• Ability to act with minimal guidance and set goals and standards for others.
• Ability to offer expert opinion and judgement of a range of digital transformation opportunities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.