As a resilient, dynamic, and experienced leader with a passion for transforming services and finding new ways of working, you could be the talented individual we’re recruiting to join our Trust in the pivotal roles of Associate Director of Transformation.
We are looking for someone to drive our ambitious transformation programme forward, embedding a culture of continuous improvement that is key to supporting our Trust strategy.
You are an experienced senior leader and have the highest professional standards and expectations. You’re passionate and committed to delivering exceptional patient care with the skills, enthusiasm, and aspiration to make a difference. Patients are at the heart of all you do – they certainly are for us.
Our values are based around Proud to CARE – and we’re very proud of our most recent staff survey results where we were rated among the top acute Trusts in the country with 72% of colleagues recommending #TeamCRH as a place to work and 73% telling us they would be happy with the standard of care should a friend or relative need it.
Along with credibility and compassion, you are an inclusive leader and understand the importance of living our values. You will bring excellent communication and engagement skills to influence and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including our system and regional partners.
This role has a complex and demanding portfolio and so if your ambition matches ours, then we look forward to hearing from you.
The Associate Director of Transformation is a core member of the leadership team.
Reporting to the Director of Finance, Improvement and Transformation, you will work across the organisation and with system partners to deliver our ambitious transformation programme.
You will have evidenced experience of your leadership and your impact across a broad portfolio including strategy, planning and transformation; business, people and financial management; performance and operations management; and risk management, clinical, quality and service improvement. You will champion development of colleagues, belonging and inclusion, and will motivate and inspire colleagues by role modelling our Proud to CARE values.
We are looking for people who will ensure that we continue to deliver our vision, mission and values through our Together as One strategy and demonstrate our proud to CARE values. We have recently developed our expected leadership behaviours; our journey is one of continual improvement.
We are part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) health and care system and work collaboratively with South Yorkshire.
We have a history and place in our community, meaning we make a difference in people’s lives daily. We employ more than 5,000 colleagues across a Group Structure which involved Chesterfield Royal Hospital,Royal Primary Care and our wholly owned subsidiary,DSFS.
We value diversity and understand the strength in leveraging diverse backgrounds and experiences to create teams that are representative of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a fair and inclusive culture, where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from people who are currently underrepresented in our senior leadership team. These include people from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. This year we launched our anti-racism strategy and our approach is based on real action.
We prioritise health and wellbeing and have a free purpose-built fully-accessible Hub on-site, supporting colleagues with 24/7 gym, classes, and access to psychological support.
We are advertising for the pivotal role of Associate Director of Transformation
The post holder will support the Director of Finance, Improvement and Transformation as follows:
• To drive the Trust transformation programme in support of the Trust strategy and support and engage the organisation to improve quality, safety, performance and financial sustainability
· In co-ordinating the development and implementation of the improvement methodology
· Lead on building a culture of continuous improvement in the Trust and organisational ownership of the transformation programme
· Programme Lead for the ICS System Planned Care Improvement programme and work with other senior leaders across the system to drive system change including working across organisational boundaries
· Line manage the Royal Academy of Improvement and oversee the Programme Management Office function of the organisation including manage the resources and associated budget for those staff reporting directly to them.
· Support as Senior Responsible Officer for the System Planned Care Delivery Board.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Oct 2024
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