This is an exciting opportunity to work for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) across two Integrated Care Systems, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshireand Berks West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS) and Frimley ICS developing and implementing our approach to providercollaboration across mental health, physical health and children and all age family services.
Berkshire Healthcareis rated as an Outstanding Trust by the CQC. We pride ourselves in recruiting staff who display our values and the right behaviours and work hard to create a culture which respects all our staff for the unique contribution they make to ensuring high quality care is delivered.We are proud to have an ambitious anti-racism strategy and health inequalities strategy and are about to refresh our three-to-five-year corporate strategy. We believe that working in partnership with others is the only way to meet the challenges the NHS and Berkshire community faces.
The Programme Director for Provider Collaboratives will lead the BHFT approach to working in collaboration with other providers, primary care, local authorities, the voluntary and communitysectorand our acute partners in a collaborative approach to transforming services, addressing healthinequalitiesand embedding the approach to coproduction across our collaborative working.
Whilst this is a full-time post flexible working and working from home can be accommodated in agreement with the line manager.
• Provider CollaborativeStrategy development, including vision,ambitionsand outcomes.
• Programme governance,planningand leadership.
• Developinganevidence-basedmethodology/approach to framing our ambitions and outcomes for the provider collaboratives
• Leading onthe organisational development that ensures collaborative working becomes the norm for BHFT and its partners (inappropriate areas)
• Providingexpert advice,guidanceand support to BHFT clinical,operationaland non-clinical colleagues (for e.g. finance, IG, digital etc) supporting collaborative working
• Thepost holder will work alongside the Clinical Directorsandappropriate leads, ICB Director(s), System Senior Responsible Officers, community and acute provider leads, other potential providerssuch as social care and the place-based project teams, data quality and outcomes leads and other team members across Berkshire and the two local systems.
• Theywillbe requiredto develop andmaintainrelationships with key stakeholders across BOB and Frimley.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
1.Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification.
2.Significant experienceof working at a senior level in specialist area supported by professional development.
3.Additionalextensive experience or qualifications achieved through further study or practical experience in relevant areas, including analysis, complex report writing at a strategic level and/or project management or negotiation
4.Evidenceofrecent and ongoing professional development. Specific training/experience in application of quality improvementmethodology.Prince2 or MSP qualified.
5.Significant experienceof complex healthcare programme management.
6.Significant knowledge of communityand/or mentalhealth and social care services
8. Understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in this area
9.Experience of working with and leading a multifunctional team within a complex high-profile change programme.Significant experienceof system wide workingandworking in complex environments.
10.Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time and to budget
11.Significant experienceof system wide workingandworking in complex environments.
12.Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time and to budget.
13.Ability toidentifyrisks,anticipateissues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
14.Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
15.Extensive experience of working with multiple stakeholders.
16.Experience of implementing change through team working.
17.Experience of setting up and implementing external processes and procedures.
18.Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
19.Demonstratedcapability to plan over short, medium, and long-termtimeframesand adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
20.Awareness of NHS infrastructure, governance, and healthcare policy.
21.Experience of preparing and presenting complex information to stakeholders.
22.Ability to research and analyse numerical and written data, assess options, and drawappropriate conclusions.
23.Affective use of relevant Microsoft Office applications and relevant information systems; Advanced Keyboard skills.
24.Demonstratedcapability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
25.Demonstratedcapabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
26.Demonstratedability of continually striving to meet high quality standards.
27.Ability to embrace new challenges.
28.Resilience, emotional intelligence, and political awareness.
29.Comfortable working in an ambiguous and fast-moving environment
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’recommitted to equal opportunitiesand welcomeapplications fromall sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected inour accreditations:Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedon’thesitate to call:Kathryn MacDermott, Director of Strategic Planning, mobile:07769 363626email:Kathryn.macdermott@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.
Interview will be held on 3rd March 2025
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Feb 2025
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