Band 8C - Head of Efficiency and Clinical Productivity

Band 8C - Head of Efficiency and Clinical Productivity

The Efficiency and Clinical Productivity team supports the achievement of the Royal Free London's group-wide goals and governing objectives through the delivery of a portfolio of major programme and change activity. The team drives the group-wide efficiency and clinical productivity programme to ensure the financial sustainability of the RFL Group.

RFL Group agreed it's Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP) in January 2024 setting out it's plan to deliver financial sustainability over the next three years. The Efficiency and Clinical Productivity team supports this through a focus on improving productivity and sustainability through core activities such as FIP delivery and efficiency plans, and the successful delivery of major change programmes that will deliver multi-year productivity improvement.

The Head of Efficiency and Clinical Productivity role supports the delivery of this portfolio of work through leading a business partnering team aligned to one of the Group's Health Units and with responsibility for delivering cross cutting Group-wide programmes. The role will develop the local and strategic relationships required to enable health units to drive the integrated development of efficiency and productivity opportunities and their delivery.

Please note, this vacancy may close early if high levels of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

As Head of Efficiency and Clinical Productivity you will have a high level of autonomy, self-drive, and will be able to manage multiple priorities and provide direction to teams to achieve the plan set out. You will need to demonstrate effective leadership skills, not only in working with a range of stakeholders to deliver change, but in leading a business partnering team. As well as being technically competent in driving change and project/programme management, you will need to possess excellent interpersonal and communication so you can work effectively with multiple groups of stakeholders across the organisation.

The role requires you to drive a complex, cross-cutting agenda and provide significant challenge and support to drive forward the improving value agenda and in ensuring the Trust meets its financial and productivity goals. You will need to be an ambassador for improvement and model the integrity, patient focused and value for moneybehaviours essential to sustainable improvement.

The role will lead a team to identify and test opportunities, develop delivery plans, and provide project management for more complex skills as well as leading and supporting cross cutting group-wide programmes of work.

This post will be allocated to support the NMUH Health Unit.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top. For more information please follow link

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust

The post can close earlier if high volumes of applications are received.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Relevant Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working as a senior operational or strategic manager in a relevant field
• Quality Improvement training or qualification

Experience

• Programme management experience - experience of driving Trustwide / multi-site change programme
• Experience of managing a team to achieve delivery of planned benefits
• Evidence of the ability to involve teams in analysis of situation and solution development; persuade teams to take on new ways of working and to constructively challenge the status quo
• Experience of successfully developing collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Experience of financial recovery and turnaround, or improving financial sustainability within an organisation
• Previous NHS experience

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to create a clear programme plan and prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
• Established leadership skills - with the ability to direct, empower, motivate, challenge, and facilitate in order to deliver results
• Strong analytical skills; able to analyse and interpret complex data to identify opportunities for improvement
• Proven change management and leadership skills, able to deploy a range of approaches to influence people and drive change
• Advanced communication skills both written (complex report writing) and orally including advanced formal presentation / facilitation skills

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

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.

Royal Free Hospital with Cross site working

Deputy Director Efficiency and Productivity

£85,431 to £97,148 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern Reference number Job locations

Royal Free Hospital with Cross site working