Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands. We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in peoples homes and in over 200 hospitals, health centres and clinics. We provide services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.
Key details
Location
Site: Priestley Wharf
Town: Birmingham
Postcode: B7 4BN
Major / Minor Region: Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
* Full time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 8a
Specialty
Main area: Partnerships and Projects
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the role of ‘Service Improvement & Development Partner’. Working within the Strategy and Partnerships Team, as a senior leader, you will work across the Trust and divisional priorities and objectives to support the integration and delivery of services to help achieve the Trust’s strategic objectives.
Reporting to the Head of Programme Delivery and Assurance, the post holder will be pivotal in providing leadership to the delivery of a range of high priority service improvement and transformation projects and business development programmes across the organisation, all linked to the delivery of the Trust’s Strategic Objectives.
We are looking for an individual with knowledge, experience, passion and interest for service development and improvement. Your range of experience may include clinical, project management, service improvement and development skills.
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Your role will encompass fulfilling priorities and objectives within the Trust/Divisional annual plans, with a particular focus on project management, quality improvement, business and service development and reporting. You will manage a suite of projects across its workstreams, including through enabling programmes and collaboration with programme colleagues. You will ensure projects are effectively reported into relevant programme governance, and key stakeholders as required. To do this, you will have to develop strong and effective relationships with colleagues across the Trust, and externally. You will ensure the projects you are responsible for are connected and aligned to programme objectives and principles. You will need to ensure that stakeholder engagement, liaison and co-production are a key part of delivery.
In partnership with Trust and Divisional colleagues, to constantly review and improve the service(s), taking into account local and national guidelines and guidance from professional leads.
To ensure that effective strategies are in place for the Services and that key elements of the service are joined up within Divisional/Trust annual plans.
You will be expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for divisional issues outside your immediate sphere of responsibility.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person specification document.
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much as possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees
* Flexible working where possible
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
* Degree level education or equivalent experience
* Project/Programme Management qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of continuous personal development including project and programme management
Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive experience in process-mapping and leading service improvement/ development
* Significant experience in project and or programme management roles
* Experience of preparing Board level reports
* Experience of line management
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
* Ability to interpret complex data from multiple sources
* Ability to develop strong relationships and work collaboratively with executive level stakeholders, clinicians and other operational leads
* Excellent written communication skills; able to write clearly and concisely, producing reports, bid responses and business cases
* Excellent oral communication, presentation and negotiating skills and is confident presenting to large groups and is able to handle challenge from senior specialist professionals
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
* Self-motivated with the ability to motivate others
* Excellent organisation skills, ability to work under own initiative without frequent supervision
* Strong interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Pritam Pal
Job title: Head of Programme Delivery and Assurance
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07596889704
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