NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
The Financial Recovery Programme works across the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System to identify opportunities for savings or efficiencies, to develop these initiatives into robust, evidence-based delivery plans and to oversee the realisation of identified benefits.
The Financial Recovery Programme Management Office (PMO) provides support to the Senior Responsible Officers and workstream leads for these initiatives by providing expertise to develop, monitor and track projects to ensure effective and timely delivery of the financial benefits. The team is critical to enabling the ICB and System partners to achieve Financial Recovery during 2024/25 and into 2025/26, and to ensure value for money, working at pace in a complex environment.
The role is required to work flexibly, at pace in a complex environment, as well as the need for team members to be able to naturally support, challenge and drive other senior colleagues from the ICB and across the system on a regular basis.
We have 2 FTE available. 1 Permanent and 1 Fixed Term Contract for 12 months. Please state on your application which contract you are applying for.
Main duties of the job
The role of the PMO Lead is to support oversight of the effective delivery of Programmes areas within the Financial Recovery Programme (FRP). Specifically, the post holder will be responsible for:
1. Working with the programme area Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) to support delivery of their Financial Recovery plans including unblocking issues, identifying and managing interdependencies, resource planning, benefits realisation and managing risks and mitigations.
2. Supporting the Finance Team in initiating routine budget reviews and identifying areas for internal (ICB) savings opportunities.
3. Ensuring the creation of project plans with smart targets, financial trajectories and driving forward the delivery of key milestones within the FRP programme plan.
4. Supporting workstream leads through providing problem solving and using influencing and negotiating skills, escalating issues as necessary through the Financial Recovery Touchpoint meeting.
5. Working with leads across the system to identify areas for further stretch targets and supporting the delivery of priorities as required.
6. Building effective relationships and ensuring engagement across portfolios with key stakeholders.
7. Horizon scanning nationally to identify any other ideas for opportunities.
8. Setting up, coordinating and driving the Improvement Room approach, with the aim to identify data-based challenges and opportunities for 2025/26 (and financial years going forward) to develop cash releasing plans accordingly.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
* Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Experience
* Must have an understanding of the background and aims of current health and social care policy.
* Experience of leading and delivering complex programmes of work at pace.
* Working and leading programmes of work, delivering at pace with diverse, multiple stakeholders in complex public sector environments.
* Understanding of NHS and social care strategic and operational planning processes.
Attributes - Negotiation and Influence
* Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders and influence on difficult and controversial issues.
Attributes - Innovation and ability to problem solve
* Innovative and ability to identify new opportunities and problem solve, with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
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.
NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Associate Director of System Development
£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata
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