Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6560397-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum (excluding HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Equipping
Band 9
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Deputy Director of Equipping is responsible for providing Equipment expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Transformation Directorate and across the whole New Hospital Programme. The post holder will be working with key stakeholders, the Trusts in the programme and team members to co-produce standards, tools and guides as well as implementing and assuring standards, to ensure safer hospitals are delivered for the NHS.
The post holder will have responsibility for supporting the strategic and operational development of the specialist knowledge within the programme. Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.
Main duties of the job
Key aspects of this role will be to: -
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Responsible for the Equipment strategy development, and delivery of it into the programme and the Trusts, ensuring it is understood by all stakeholders, and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
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Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.
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Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
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Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure adoption across the Programme, the Trusts, and the relevant teams within the wider NHSE.
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Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders.
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Develop and implement systems and processes to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate, and the wider NHS organisations as appropriate.
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Implement appropriate governance to create and manage a high performing team to help deliver a range of outputs, ensuring the necessary capacity and capability are in place. Support and mentor this team, building in a culture of ongoing reflection and improvement.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities please see attached Job Description.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Has worked within a senior position in a support team for new NHS hospital build programmes.
- Extensive knowledge and experience at a senior level within an acute hospital setting.
- Have experience of a leadership role within a new hospital build programme, guiding teams and providing expert equipment knowledge through build and commissioning.
- Demonstrate knowledge of equipping, minimising risk in the built environment.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shahina Rashid
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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