Main area: Dental Workforce Transformation
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (31 December 2025)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 190-8429-DIR
Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Charles Clifford Dental Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 15/11/2024
Job overview
The Oral and Dental Directorate, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield are working in partnership and with other key stakeholders, including the South Yorkshire Dental Workforce Planning Group, to create a local transformational workforce plan.
The Oral and Dental Surgery community have an ambition to create a workforce plan that will deliver excellent and sustainable patient care, professional teaching and training for the future. The plan must be transformational and align to the direction in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and policy paper Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry.
The post holder will project manage the creation of a workforce plan and an outline business case for appropriate supporting facilities, including the option of a new centre for dental development in the community with a best value operating model.
Main duties of the job
1. Lead on the delivery of the Dental Workforce Transformation Programme including risk and issue management, reporting, milestone achievement, information management and reporting, comms and engagement, and benefits management.
2. Establish a robust governance and management framework for the Programme that will deliver the outputs and outcomes necessary to achieve the aims of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and the policy paper “Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS Dentistry”.
3. Manage the whole lifecycle of work packages and projects against the Programme plan to ensure deliverables within the scope of a project are defined and delivered, in order that the outcomes can be achieved, benefits realised, and lessons continually captured and managed.
4. Lead on developing strategic intelligence to facilitate the successful delivery of the Programme and to identify and formulate areas for system-wide improvements.
5. Provide the leadership to define a project or workstreams scope of work, including initiating, overseeing and developing the mobilisation and approvals of projects, alongside owning aspects of project and programme delivery.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
* Programme Management experience to post graduate level or equivalent qualification/experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Knowledge and experience of programme management tools, techniques and methodology
Experience
* Experience of applying programme management techniques at a senior level in a large complex environment
* Experience of leading and managing significant change and innovation
Skills and Knowledge
* Understanding of managing, monitoring and controlling delegated authority of budgets
* Understanding of commissioning, contracting and complex service change
* Demonstrable ability to translate policy and strategy into deliverables
* Understanding of the NHS Long Term Plan and dentistry reforms
* Ability to link core performance metrics with transformation requirements
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
* Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new opportunities
* Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
* Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
* Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
* Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise, including the assessment and management of risk
* Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstance
* Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and workforce transformation
* Skills for direct line management and job management
* Skills for delivering results through others including administrative resources and through direct line management of project support
* Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
* Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
* Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
* Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment.
* Extensive knowledge of NHS dental services and the transformation agenda
* Working knowledge of the South Yorkshire Dental Workforce Planning Group
Personal Qualities
* Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
* Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
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