Strategy Manager

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Strategy Manager - this is an exciting opportunity to work across the Trust, with South East London partners and with patients to support the development of service-level clinical strategy, the refresh of the Trust's Green Plan to ensure we can meet national expectations and wider strategic planning and horizon scanning.

The post holder will work as part of the Strategy team to manage and support a portfolio of partnership and strategy related work. This will include, but is not limited to, supporting the work of relevant partnerships boards, facilitating teams to deliver aspects of the Trust strategy, working with clinical leaders and management teams to develop effective strategies and leading time-limited task and finish work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the Strategy team to manage and support a portfolio of partnership and strategy related work. This will include, but is not limited to, supporting the work of relevant partnerships boards, facilitating teams to deliver aspects of the Trust strategy and undertaking task and finish strategy development work.

The successful candidate will need to employ highly effective communication (written and oral), negotiation and influencing skills to build networks and relationships. Experience of managing competing priorities to deliver projects within agreed timeframes will be necessary. You will need a wide range of analytical skills and you must be able to demonstrate that you are a strong team player with a flexible and adaptive approach.

You will lead the design and support the implementation of strategy that delivers evidence-based solutions to our strategic priorities. This includes proactively engaging with and facilitating wide and diverse groups of clinical and operational staff, developing and delivering programme plans, risk management, overseeing budgets and business cases, and benefits realisation plans.

You will provide updates and high level communication at a strategic level to senior leaders through governance groups and wider stakeholders. You will receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, and be able to use it to bring colleagues to resolution and agreement.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Working collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical teams to support the development and implementation of clinical strategy

· Support the delivery of the Trust strategy by managing processes to identify and monitor key milestones and deliverables across clinical divisions and wider Trust programmes

· Act as a key interface between clinical divisions and other corporate teams (finance, workforce, IT and estates) in developing and progressing clinical strategy

· Design and update templates for monitoring progress and work closely with divisional and corporate teams to ensure their timely submission

· With the AD of Strategy and divisional teams undertake any work required to manage and deliver cross-Trust strategic priorities. This will include receiving, analysing and presenting complex, sensitive and contentious information, bringing differing views to resolution and monitoring progress against agreed actions

· Negotiating, facilitating and successfully bringing contentious or differing views to resolution

· Develop and support communications related to the Trust’s clinical strategy including producing highly effective briefings for senior leaders to support decision-making, giving presentations to relevant groups of staff or the public and identifying further opportunities for engagement

· Support existing and new partnership boards by planning the work-programme, producing updates and following up actions

· Develop strong working relationships across the Trust, and with partners across the NHS and partner organisations

· Provide progress reports orally and in writing to a range of stakeholders.

· Lead or support task and finish strategic work or development, bringing others with you through effective, credible leadership

· Liaise with divisional and corporate teams to ensure consistency and coherence between local plans and the Trust strategy

· Provide expertise and advice to divisional or corporate teams on strategic issues and to act, and be recognised, as an expert in developing strategy

· Proactively horizon scan upcoming developments nationally or locally, and bring them to the attention of relevant teams with clear recommendations on relevant implications for the Trust

Person specificationQualifications

• Master’s Degree level or equivalent professional experience
• Evidence of Leadership and Management Development
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development

Experience

• Significant management and /or professional experience in an NHS or other similar environment
• Project management and delivery experience
• Experience of building personal and professional credibility with senior management and clinical teams and staff
• Experience in leading the development of business cases to approval
• Experience in a strategic development or similar role in a similar environment
• Experience of delivering corporate plans to approval
• Experience of working with partners within and outside of the NHS
• Experience of working in or with the NHS
• Experience in developing strategic and service plans

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge both of the south east London health and social care system and how the wider healthcare system operates
• Knowledge of national strategy and policy priorities and context
• Understanding of the current challenges facing NHS service delivery

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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