Employer: NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Charter House
Town: Welwyn Garden City
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus fringe allowance
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59
Operational Lead System Resilience
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
East and North Hertfordshire (ENH) Place Team are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and dynamic Operational Lead to join our team. The Operational Lead will work with providers and other key stakeholders to support the day to day management of urgent and emergency care pressures across the ENH Place Team, along with an understanding of system actions and to provide assurance and escalation where additional support is required.
You will work collaboratively with various partners to ensure efficient and effective processes are in place to meet goals and objectives, alongside implementing actions that result from the daily calls to support the delivery of safe patient care and national targets. A strategic component will involve managing projects to support the achievement of both the organisational and the Urgent Care Recovery program objectives. The post holder will support the Deputy Head of System Resilience and the day to day oversight of system pressures across the Integrated Care Board footprint, deputising as required.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will support the Head of UEC and Resilience to ensure work streams are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
* Attend System Resilience meetings throughout the day and deputise (for the Deputy Head of UEC and Resilience) as required, taking, and delivering on the reporting, actions, and outcomes to support service delivery.
* Work closely with system partners to maintain day to day management of system performance and resolution of risks and issues as they arise. Facilitate resolution of clinical issues including pathway barriers and provide support for individual patient flow issues.
* Deputise for the Deputy Head of UEC and Resilience as required.
* Represent the ENH Place Operations team at various ENH Place and ICB wide system meetings with colleagues from partner organisations.
* Provide a consistent resource for day-to-day escalations from ENH Place system partners, ICB wide and for out of area escalations.
* Support the maintenance and delivery of key operational national and local priorities and standards within the system.
* Lead on the daily operational reporting requirements both internally and externally as required including NHS England using several BI tools.
* Prepare presentations and formal detailed reports on behalf of the System Resilience Team.
* Own and manage a portfolio of projects.
* Monitor and review financial spend on behalf of the department as required.
Working for our organisation
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality. The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.
It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim. So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
* Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent.
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
* High level of experience with Microsoft Office packages particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
* Clinical experience.
* Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
Communications Skills
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
* Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
Analytical
* Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Planning Skills
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, health issue or a life event, please let us know so that we can consider your application fairly and get the best out of you during the selection process.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship, so you'll need to be able to demonstrate your right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Anne Marie Fallon-Cotton, Head of UEC and Resilience:
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