Head of Planning & Programmes

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Band 8c

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Trust as our future Head of Planning & Programmes. Reporting to the Deputy Director of Planning & Strategy, you will play a key role in ensuring that appropriate frameworks and processes are in place to manage annual operational and business planning processes, as well as agreeing strategic priorities. This crucial leadership role will provide support to our clinical divisions and corporate services departments in developing their operational and business plans, with a view to making the Trusts delivery of services to patients as strong as possible.

At Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we recognise the importance of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We want everyone to feel welcomed, respected, and accepted for who they are. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a high-calibre professional to lead our Planning and Programmes function. You will bring a depth of experience across planning, programmes, operations and analysis in a complex organisation. You will be highly numerate and naturally use your analytical skills to move quickly to the heart of problems and help PHU to improve the care it provides to patients. This role offers the opportunity to work with clinical teams, have regular contact with executive directors and provide input to a range of complex challenges and improvement opportunities across the organisation. You will therefore need to be sophisticated in your communication and comfortable describing complex problems in straightforward ways to senior audiences and will be known for delivering results in the face of a demanding agenda.

About us

The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Title: Head of Planning and Programmes

Band: 8C

Staff Group: Admin & Clerical

Reports to: Deputy Director of Planning and Strategy

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Person Specification

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

Significant experience of leadership at a senior managerial level in operational and strategic management, including exposure to Board.
Significant experience of delivering change programmes
Significant experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
Demonstrable successful delivery of project outputs to required time, quality and cost

Desirable

Experience of working successfully with clinical and managerial leads in service redesign
Demonstrable experience gained in a healthcare environment

Respect & Dignity

Essential

Actively promote a culture where by patients, staff, visitors and colleagues are treated with respect and dignity; lead by example

Desirable

Experience of encouraging diversity of thinking as a means to promote positive change and fostering commonality

Quality of Care

Essential

Ability to keep the improvement of the quality of care to all programmes, often managing conflicting priorities and objectives

Desirable

Experience of working with Quality Impact Assessment processes

Experience

Essential

Problem solving: having the capacity to analyse problems in a logical and structured way using qualitative and quantitative information, supporting the generation of innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes
Performance management: able to effectively manage performance by holding self and others to account for delivering required standards and outcomes
Presentation: being articulate and skilled in presenting ideas to others. Able to prepare and produce concise and insightful reports for a broad range of audiences
Analytical: able to use and interpret complex information to make robust recommendations for evidence-based practice and decision-making
Prioritisation: able to manage work of self and others to accommodate competing priorities and meet demands
High level of computer-literacy: including creation and use of spread sheets, databases, charts, reports and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision-making, working with a high degree of accuracy
Motivating: ability to inspire confidence in staff across the organisation and to influence and negotiate at a senior level. Ability to motivate self and others and work autonomously as well as working effectively as part of the team
Business planning and change knowledge and skills
The ability to work constructively with clinicians and divisional management teams

Desirable

People Management skills: including staff management, staff development and teambuilding.
Experience of using NHS information, benchmarking data and hospital information systems
Able to facilitate workshops, meetings and engagement sessions

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent relevant senior management experience
Educated to Post Graduate level in relevant area or significant experience of working at an equivalent level
Prince2 practitioner or relevant experience
Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up to date knowledge of patients services and evidence of CPD

Desirable

Trained in service improvement methodologies with significant experience of application of learning in practice
Detailed understanding of NHS Trust regulatory requirements and performance expectations

If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our executive search partner Finn McNulty at Hunter Healthcare on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com or 07966 006091.

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Timeline

Date	Event
October 16	Job closes