Associate Director Improvement and Personalisation

Job overview

As we continue to progress through reform organisational changes, a number of roles which have remained unfilled are now being progressed to external recruitment. This only applies where a role has been carefully considered for redeployment opportunities and where the role is deemed to be no longer required for suitable alternative employment and we have been unsuccessful in recruiting internally.

The role of Associate Director Improvement and Personalisation is an integral part of the Stockport Leadership team working alongside other senior leaders in our locality partnership.

The role leads the Transformation and Improvement team and works in a matrix way across our team and system, building on strong relationships, and developing new ways of working, to deliver the best we can for our residents, in partnership with others.

We are looking for a brilliant clinical leader with strength, resilience, forward thinking, innovative, "can-do" attitude that can handle our challenges and ambition. We have a strong track record of delivery and have many exciting things going on which will offer a breadth of opportunities for the right candidate. If your are interested in working in our ambitious locality, in this pivotal role and want to know more, have a read of the job description (it is generic so wont tell you everything you'll want to know ) and then contact me Philippa Johnson at philippa.johnson1@nhs.net or 07554438223.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide clinical leadership and strategic oversight for quality improvement and personalisation across the locality, ensuring transformation programmes embed evidence-based methodologies and person-centred care. This includes championing formal improvement approaches; National Modern Service Frameworks (MSFs) and National Structure improvement, Collaboratives (Out patients, Urgent and Emergency Care, Frailty) . The post holder will drive a comprehensive quality improvement culture, integrating learning from safeguarding, incidents, and LeDeR reviews into service redesign, and amplifying the voice of patients and communities. The role will convene clinical and civic leaders to co-design improvements, strengthen professional leadership from nursing and Allied Health Professionals, acting as a respected, clinical leadership voice across the place partnership, to modernise personalisation through proactive, preventative care models,. The postholder will ensure active engagement with the clinical community maintaining strong networks that enable workforce intelligence is embedded in transformation and clinical governance. They will act as a bridge between Greater Manchester statutory functions and clinical networks, and local delivery, driving assurance-led improvement and building workforce capability in continuous learning and quality improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead transformation and/or delivery programmes operational workstreams aligned to NHS GM strategy, the Locality Plan and national guidance.
• Deputise for Executive Directors and place partnership leads as required, representing the place partnership at internal and external meetings, including those held in public.
• Maintain oversight of risk, assurance, and governance for the defined portfolio, ensuring alignment of clinical and organisational governance across the place health and care system.
• Provide executive-level responsibility for transformation programmes, ensuring compliance with NHS statutory and legislative requirements.
• Ensure transformation is based on population health analysis and best practice, integrated into robust programme plans and models of integrated care.
• Act with diplomacy while confidently driving change and influencing without formal authority, navigating any tensions between building strong partnerships and ensuring a rigorous focus on quality, value for money and reducing health inequalities.
• Work collaboratively across the place partnership (e.g. Local Authority, politicians, primary care networks and individual providers, hospital trusts, mental health trusts and the voluntary sector) to ensure joint working, integrated models of care, and accountability for delivery of integrated outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with local government partners (e.g. adult social care, children’s services, housing and public health) to develop a shared understanding of the population and work together to reduced inequalities, improve outcomes and strengthen neighbourhood health.
• Drive the ongoing identification of underserved communities by assessing the quality, performance and productivity of provision, by integrating person-level data and insights with the biological, psychological and social drivers of risk and demand.
• Produce strategic reports and updates for executive oversight (including place and NHS GM forums) summarising performance status, appraising outcomes, monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) and evaluation plans.
• Provide strategic oversight of procurement quality by embedding robust monitoring within place based contracts, leveraging contractual mechanisms to drive continuous improvement, and proactively mitigating risks in alignment with National Quality Board standards.
• Work collaboratively across multiple places and/or across GM as required, engaging with other place partnerships and leading appropriate work across GM, or on behalf of multiple places, as required.
• Support a partnership approach between the statutory Safeguarding accountabilities of NHS GM with place arrangements , providing support, leadership and communication to ensure partnerships at place are robust and effective for adults and children

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.