Job summary
Do you have people and project management skills? Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB is committed to working together to empower people to lead their best life and we're looking for a talented individual to work on an exciting project that aims to improve health and work integration.
Through building strong relationships with senior leadership teams within the Integrated Care System (ICS), Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and Department for Social Care (DSC) to influence the direction of the Work and Health project, you will contribute to a thorough understanding of population work and health needs, including identifying provision gaps and opportunities for improvement.
As a Work and Health Partnership Co-ordinator your primary responsibility is to establish and nurture partnerships to improve work and health outcomes across the ICS. Collaborating with key stakeholders including healthcare providers, local authorities, and third sector partners you will drive initiatives to support residents with disabilities and long term health issues in the workplace. This position offers and exciting opportunity to lead operational initiatives aimed at improving work and health integration.
Main duties of the job
Establish and maintain strong networks across the ICS, engaging with NHS colleagues, Local Authority contacts and other stakeholders and to nurture networks internally and externally
Communicate effectively to a diverse range of stakeholders and to present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to these stakeholders
Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, liaising with other managers to share best practice.
To develop and manage the project from inception to completion, providing project advice, expertise and support where requested
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function
Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.
About us
If you are offered employment with us, you will have the opportunity to join a friendly, quality focused and dynamic team that is supportive and cares about your working experience and your wellbeing.
BSW ICB have adopted agile working so this means the successful applicant will predominately be working from home but may be requested to work in any one of the ICB's office bases across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire. You will also have a contractual base within the BSW ICB office where your team is based.
Benefits BSW ICB offer include:
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Generous NHS annual leave entitlements commencing at 27 days per year rising to 33 days per year, pro rata, plus bank holidays
- Flexible working
- Modern IT equipment and an in-house IT help facility
- Colleague wellbeing support through a Staff Support Service and a wealth of wellbeing guidance and offers
- Colleague engagement forums and events
- Financial wellbeing guidance and benefits (including NHS staff offers, health service discounts, cycle scheme, car lease scheme, money helper service)
- Opportunities for learning through training and continuous development
- Opportunity to buy additional annual leave
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Working Relationships
Establish and maintain strong networks across the ICS, engaging with NHS colleagues, Local Authority contacts and other stakeholders
Communicate effectively complex information to a diverse range of stakeholders in formal settings
Engage constructively on business sensitive issues with both internal and external stakeholders
Maintain and nurture networks internally and externally
Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data.
Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
To liaise with other Managers to share best practice.
3. Functional Responsibilities
3.1 Project Management
Contribute to performance improvement and providing project advice and support
Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function
Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.
3.2 Financial and Physical Resources
Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of Team budgets
Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.
3.3 Management
Take a lead in the coordination of training, development and recruitment activity across the Team
Manage colleagues, undertaking appraisals, recruitment including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues, as necessary.
3.4 Information Management
Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
3.5 Research and Development
Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and workstream success
Delegate aspects of Research and Development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
4. Operational Responsibilities
4.1 Planning and Organisation
Contribute to the strategic planning of Team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Clusters and Sector priorities.
Contribute to short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
4.2 Policy and Service Development
Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.
Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
Communication & Analytical
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
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.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB
Address
Jenner House
Avon Way, Langley Park
Chippenham
SN15 1GG