About this role
Job summary
OPPORTUNITY - PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMME
Internal NHS Wales Appointment, Offered on a time-limited secondment
About the Role
The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is seeking a senior leader to be Programme Director - Financial Sustainability Programme (FSP), providing dedicated senior leadership to accelerate delivery of productivity, recurrent efficiencies and a credible operational and financial sustainability pipeline while maintaining high-quality services.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Performance and working closely with the FSP SRO and other Executive Directors, the Programme Director will:
Lead the Trust's Financial Sustainability Programme and key workstreams
Drive delivery of productivity and further improving efficiency, cost avoidance and reduction, commercial development and future planning
Integrate operational, strategic, financial and commissioning perspectives
Translate improvement activity into demonstrable financial and system value, including cash releasing, and build the future sustainability/transformation pipeline
The role spans organisational and system boundaries and requires the ability to influence, coordinate and constructively challenge at senior levels.
We are seeking a senior, credible and highly capable leader who:
Operates at Director/Deputy Director level and can lead complex, cross-organisational programmes
Brings strong strategic and analytical capability, comfortable with ambiguity and driving pace
Has excellent influencing and communication skills; and
Has a good understanding of productivity/performance/finance/transformation in NHS Wales and ideally ambulance services
About us
#RemarkablePeople
Our workforce is made up of over 4,000 remarkable people who contribute to the delivery of world-class patient care across Wales, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Whether you work in a patient-facing role or within our range of support services, the work that you do enables us to provide high quality care, wherever and whenever we're needed.
The Trust recognises the need for its workforce to represent the diversity of the population it serves across the whole of Wales and seeks to create an environment where diversity is celebrated and inclusivity matters. We are also keen to break down any barriers into the Trust, and would encourage applications from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ communities and disability groups.
Careers within the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust are diverse and varied, with opportunities arising right across the service. Whatever your skills and background, you're sure to find a career with us which is fulfilling, challenging, and rewarding.
In line with the Trust's Starting Salary Procedure, all applicants will start at the bottom of the band for the position applied for, but can apply for a higher salary if they have previous experience relevant to the position.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to:
Lead one of the Trusts most critical strategic programmes
Work closely with the Executive Team and Board, including system-level commissioning relationships
Build experience and skills relevant to future Executive Director roles
Terms and Application
Offered as a 2 year secondment colleagues are asked to complete an application via Trac. Please contact Rachel Marsh, Deputy Chief Executive, at [email protected]
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge Essential
Educated to Master's degree level in a relevant subject, or able to demonstrate equivalent advanced knowledge, skills and experience. Extensive specialist knowledge of programme delivery, financial sustainability, transformation, planning, improvement and governance within a large complex organisation. Strong understanding of financial improvement methodologies, benefits realisation, business case development and performance reporting.
Desirable
Formal qualification in programme or project management, improvement, finance, business change or a related discipline. Knowledge of NHS Wales financial planning, commissioning and organisational governance arrangements.
Experience Essential
Substantial senior experience of leading complex cross-organisational programmes or portfolios with significant strategic, financial and reputational risk. Demonstrable track record of delivering measurable improvement in productivity, efficiency, financial performance or transformation in a large complex organisation. Experience of developing business cases, option appraisals, delivery plans and benefits frameworks for complex change. Experience of operating with credibility at senior management or executive interface level, including influencing across functions, professions and governance structures.
Desirable
Experience of working in NHS Wales or another large public service organisation in a financially constrained, politically sensitive environment. Experience of leading financial sustainability, productivity or commercial development workstreams and shaping organisational approaches to delivery.
Skills and Attributes Essential
Highly developed strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex information and reach sound judgements at pace. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to senior audiences. Strong influencing, negotiation and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and secure commitment across organisational and system boundaries. Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, manage ambiguity and maintain delivery focus in a fast-moving and demanding environment. Competent user of Microsoft 365 and associated reporting and presentation tools.
Desirable
Welsh Language Skills levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Other Essential
Ability travel across Wales Ability to work flexibly to meet programme and organisational needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Welsh Ambulance NHS Trust
Address Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust
One of Three Headquarters Across Wales & / or Home Working
Across Wales
NP44 7HF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ambulance.wales.nhs.uk/en/5 (Opens in a new tab)