Assistant Director

1 month ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

An opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, innovative individual to join Leeds Teaching Hospitals on a secondment basis for maximum 12 months. We are a CQC Good rated organisation, with high levels of staff engagement, and excellent clinical outcomes.

Main duties of the job

As the Assistant Director in the Chief Executives Office working directly to the Chief Executive and closely with other members of the Executive Team you will be responsible for ensuring actions assigned to the Chief Executive are taken forward by engaging and working with teams from across the Trust and partners across the wider health and social care system and will have agreed delegated responsibilities in strategy development and policy initiatives, particularly focussed on integrated partnership working and tackling health inequities. You will also be responsible for ensuring the Chief Executive is briefed and prepared for all meetings and events with appropriate information, presentations, speeches, and background.

About us

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their ability to commit to and role model our agreed Trust wide values and behaviours, The Leeds Way, and apply our continuous improvement methodology, The Leeds Improvement Method.

For an informal chat please contact philipwood1@nhs.net

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing a high-level executive support service for the Chief Executive.

Working closely with other members of the Chief Executives Office (see structure below), the post holder will be responsible for ensuring actions assigned to the Chief Executive are taken forward by engaging and working with teams from across the Trust and partners across the wider health and social care system and will have agreed delegated responsibilities in strategy development and policy initiatives. They will also be responsible for ensuring the Chief Executive is briefed and prepared for all meetings and events with appropriate information, presentations, speeches and background.

Person Specification

Skills & Behaviours

Essential


  • Ability to build productive working relationships with colleagues at all levels of LTHT and within partner organisations
  • A high level of leadership, communications (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to make effective judgments involving highly complex and multi-stranded facts or situations which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a ran
  • Ability to quickly understand issues involving highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information and communicate them clearly and succinctly to all levels within and outside the Trust

Qualifications

Essential


  • Qualifications: Degree and post graduate diploma in relevant subject or equivalent experience
  • Holding a relevant professional business qualification Application/Certificates

Desirable


  • Holding a relevant professional business qualification

Experience

Essential


  • Understanding of the strategic context of the NHS and wider health and social care environment
  • Extensive experience of working at a senior level in a large and complex organisation
  • Experience in the preparation of general correspondence and management reports
  • Experience of engaging with colleagues without authority to effectively to deliver against priorities

Desirable


  • Understanding of project management including PRINCE 2 methodology

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

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