Transformation Lead

Job overview

The primary objective of the role is to lead large scale, complex transformation projects across the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust organisation and the wider health and social care system.

This will include designing and delivering projects in accordance with ESNEFT and wider system and alliance strategies in addition to providing direct support to the Senior Transformation Lead, Deputy Head and Heads of Transformation as required.

The role will be predominately based at Colchester, however, with various components requiring work across both Colchester and Ipswich Acute Hospital locations as well as Community Hospital locations. You will:

• Lead delivery of specific transformation projects across primarily Urgent & Emergency Care and Community Services, in accordance with ESNEFT organisational and wider system alliance strategies, business plans and CIP programmes.
• Support the Senior Transformation Lead in Urgent & Emergency Care for ESNEFT, to ensure that the Transformation projects are planned and managed effectively, ensuring safe and seamless integration with other existing processes and services.
• Support and enable the wider aims of ‘Making Time Matter’, the Trust’s wider change and continuous improvement programme.
• Embed the principles of transformation into clinical and service delivery

Interveiws will be held on Thursday 7th November at Colchester General Hospital

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for planning and advising on the co-production and implementation of new care pathways to achieve step changes in quality and patient experience. This will include complex audits/surveys of the emerging and current best practice, liaison with service users, monitoring of key commercial developments and close working with stakeholders to prepare the case for change and change management plans
• To deliver formal and informal presentations as needed, providing regular updates on progress, articulating various levels of technical business process information and narrative, to diverse groups e.g. Service Managers, Project Boards, Medical Staff Committee, Strategy and Governance Groups to inform and persuade stakeholders and decision makers about proposed service and business process changes including structured explanations of potentially contentious information in a palatable format
• To matrix manage project teams of different professional groups, accounting for and considering their views and opinions to ensure consensus is reached to enable the implementation of new initiatives, pathways and processes.
• Working with staff across the Trust to ensure that projects fully meet clinical and operational needs while delivering tangible benefits in terms of efficiency, clinical risk and cost in line with agreed time and quality requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.