Main area Strategy and Planning
Grade Band 8a
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Cross sites)
Job ref 151-SS52
Employer Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Frimley Park Hospital
Town Camberley
Salary £55,877 - £62,626 per annum incl of HCAS
Salary period Yearly
Closing 13/04/2025 23:59
Strategy and Planning ManagerBand 8aJob overview
This is an exciting time for the Trust, as we launch our new ambitious Trust Strategy and start to plan as part of the New Hospitals Programme and Frimley Park Hospital.
We are looking for a talented individual to join our Strategy Team as the Strategy and Planning Manager reporting to the Associate Director of Strategy.
You will work alongside leaders in the coordination and publication of our new Trust Strategy and supporting strategies which will steer the trust through the next five years.
We welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds with a proven track record in strategy work/ transformation or operations, whether from a consulting firm or in-house. Healthcare/NHS experience is a plus but not essential. You might already be in a managerial role or looking to step into your first strategy position.
Main duties of the job
This role will require someone to work independently across the organisation and with our leaders and teams to ensure all our strategies and plans are aligned internally and within our System partners where applicable.
Key Skills:
- Self-starter, skilled problem solver with a can-do attitude, able to deliver at pace and in a highly pressured environment.
- Exceptional stakeholder relationship skills.
- Able to work across multi-functional teams to draw key themes.
- Experience of initiating and delivering complex cross-organisation projects.
- Experience in managing up and across.
- Strong literacy and MS PowerPoint skills ensuring large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data can be distilled and communicated in a simple, effective way.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specificationQualifications
- Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent training and experience
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Experience
- Relevant experience of working in an NHS organisation/other government organisation/ private sector organisation in a senior management position
- Experience of implementing strategy/transformation plans across a number of departments/ teams/services
- Experience of writing business cases, tenders and development plans
- Experience in working with a range of stakeholders both within and outside the organisation
- Experience of presenting information to a senior level in an organisation (senior leaders) and working closely with senior management
- Experience of building meaningful relationships, including working with complex teams / structures
- Delivery of projects against tight timescales, within financial and other constraints, and high expectations
- Experience of researching best practice (private and public sector)
Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to influence key stakeholders and work through conflict and challenging conversations.
- Demonstrate strong and credible leadership in being able to pull together people across the Trust and motivate them to deliver common aims and targets.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and conflicting deadlines by effective prioritisation.
- Ability to communicate complex information effectively to a range of stakeholders, ranging from senior leaders to ward level.
- Ability to analyse and interpret key information/ data and its relevance to the organisation.
- Evidence of advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strategic and innovative thinker
- Ability to analyse complex information from a variety of internal and external sources.
- Ability to facilitate groups and meetings and to develop win:win solutions to challenging problems.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical, business concepts and sensitive material and to express them in clear language accessibly and compellingly.
- Knowledge of current NHS strategic environment
- An understanding of marketing techniques and strategy and stakeholder management
- Knowledge of strategy/transformation development and delivery.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent verbal communication, influencing, collaboration and diplomacy
- Evident leadership skills and drive
- Able to work to own initiative
- Commitment to continuing personal development and identifying own development needs.
- Able to gather, analyse and interpret highly complex and conflicting information
- Ability to work under pressure, at a rapid pace and with an unpredictable work load
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