Job overview
Transformation Manager (Band 8a) Permanent
Ealing Borough Based Partnership | West London NHS Trust
Help lead one of London's most ambitious neighbourhood health transformation programmes.
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated transformation professional with a track record of delivering change in complex environments. You will have strong programme and project management skills, excellent stakeholder engagement abilities and the confidence to work with senior leaders across multiple organisations. You will be skilled at bringing together diverse perspectives, turning strategy into action, navigating ambiguity and maintaining momentum to deliver measurable improvements for residents.
We encourage interested candidates to apply as early as possible. Please note that, due to the anticipated level of interest in this role, applications may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received and the application threshold is reached.
Main duties of the job
Ealing is redesigning the way health and care services are delivered. Through our Borough Based Partnership, NHS organisations, Ealing Council, primary care, voluntary and community sector partners, and local communities are working together to create a more integrated, preventative and neighbourhood-based model of care.
As Transformation Manager, you will be at the heart of this work, helping to shape and deliver programmes that improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and bring care closer to home for more than 380,000 residents.
This is an opportunity to influence some of the most significant developments in health and care across Ealing. Working across organisational boundaries, you will support the delivery of major transformation programmes including Neighbourhood Health, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, mental health transformation, children's services, frailty, community mobilisation and population health improvement.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to take part in an informal conversation with members of the team ahead of interview, providing an opportunity to learn more about the role, ask questions and gain further insight into the Ealing Borough Based Partnership and its ambitions for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge of underpinning NHS policy and guidance, with ability to apply knowledge
- Knowledge of change management, business process mapping and quality improvement approaches
- Advanced technical programme management skills with an ability to adapt the approach to a service environment
Desirable
- Knowledge of financial analysis, costing models and NHS contracts
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Educated to bachelor’s level or equivalent experience
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent experience
- PRINCE 2 practitioner, Agile or APM training
- Evidence of continued professional development specific to Project/ Programme Management
- Experience of working in the NHS in delivering change, transformation or improvement projects
- Experience of working with clinicians, practitioners, and service users and carers in delivering change
- Experience and ability to work across multiple teams and organisations in matrix structures
- Demonstrable track record of leading or playing a significant role in the delivery of change projects or programmes
Desirable
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) training or equivalent
- Experience of working in NHS England or with policy think-tanks (such as Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust, etc.)
- Experience of undertaking engagement/ outreach work (with local communities, lived experience ambassadors or voluntary sector organisations)
Skills- Planning, Technical, Physical and autonomy
Essential
- Excellent engagement skills, with the ability to drive and motivate teams of people at all levels of an organisation, and to manage conflict
- Advanced slide-making and document writing skills
- Advanced skills in planning and delivering projects to time and quality standard expectations
- Self-starter and self-disciplined, planning and organising a work programme with conflicting demands and priorities
- Proactive worker and a self-starter; demonstrable experience of working in ambiguous situations
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist project advice to the organisation, working to challenging timescales
Desirable
- Ability to analyse, interpret and present complex information and quantitative and qualitative data, to enable decision making
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