# Head of Strategy Delivery **Company**: Barts Health **Location**: London **Experience**: senior **Salary**: £85,641 to £114,951 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9259-26-1848?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_adc57d24-ec4 ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior, strategic and system-minded individual to join the Whipps Cross Redevelopment Programme team as Head of Strategy Delivery, connecting the development of the new Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs with the wider transformation of health and care across north east London. The role will involve working closely with the Strategy Delivery Director, the Deputy Director of Neighbourhood Transformation, senior clinical and operational colleagues and partners across the local health and care system. A Centre of Excellence is only as good as the community and system around it and in this role you will be the connection between the development of the Centre of Excellence for frailty and complex needs - the next phase of the Whipps Cross redevelopment - and the wider transformation of health and care across the system, ensuring the Centre is designed hand-in-hand with neighbourhood health, research and education, and estates and facilities partners, and takes its place as a genuine community asset. You will lead work to align the programme with system transformation priorities, broker relationships with partners across primary, community and social care, and make sure that what is planned for the Centre strengthens - and is strengthened by - the care being built around it in people's homes and neighbourhoods. Operating at senior level in a high-profile programme moving across all business case phases through to opening of the Centre of Excellence, you will need the credibility to work across organisational boundaries and the strategic judgement to turn a complex landscape into clear, deliverable plans. **Job Responsibilities:** - Significant experience of managing or supporting system wide change programmes within the public sector - Proven track record of successful and sustained management in an NHS Trust or similar public sector organisation - In-depth knowledge in a number of management disciplines acquired through training and experience to degree level or equivalent - Evidence of a track record in change management and working with different corporate and service-level functions within a public sector organisation - Significant complex programme management experience - Experience of procuring and managing the outputs of external advisors - Experience in delivering a programme involving major business and systems change in a multi stakeholder environment across multiple locations - Experience of partnership working across organisational boundaries, building alignment between acute, community and wider system partners - Experience of managing teams and subject matter experts - Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers - Experience of contract management **Person Specification:** - Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage different internal and external stakeholders and public engagement - Strong planning and coordination skills in a complex and rapidly changing environment - Well-developed communication skills - both verbal and written - with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels - Able to clarify key points from diverse and complex sets of information - Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions - The ability to grasp critical issues and distil them into clear and manageable priorities, weighing both costs and benefits - Uses a range of influencing strategies to bring about change and modernisation of services - Builds and uses networks of influence - Strives to ensure that local people, staff and other agencies are involved in shaping the health modernisation agenda - Takes time to build critical mass or support for a position, with the aim of getting results by working in partnership **Benefits:** - Competitive salary: £85,641 to £114,951 a year - Permanent contract - Full-time, flexible working pattern **Other Requirements:** - Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience - Ability to articulate and persuade others up, down and across the NHS organisations and represent/act as an ambassador to the Trust and of the Programme - Is clearly focused on the goal of service improvement - Invests sustained effort in making a significant impact on improvement within the organisation and across the whole healthcare community - Works in such a way as to leave a legacy of improved services - Demonstrates a real commitment to working with, involving and consulting patients and other stakeholders in decisions about service delivery and improvement ## Skills ### Required - change management - programme management - strategic planning - stakeholder engagement - communication skills - influencing strategies - partnership working - contract management ### Nice to have - neighbourhood health - place-based transformation programmes - procurement regulations --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9259-26-1848?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)