To support the Business Management Team and Directorate Management Team in delivering the Directorate's core business. The post holder will make use of management information to strengthen business planning and ensure delivery of strategic and service priorities.
The role includes monitoring and reporting on Trust-wide and local performance indicators, and working closely with Informatics, BI and Clinical colleagues. The post holder will lead workstreams to improve data quality and ensure accuracy in reporting.
To provide support in the co-ordination of the business planning process:
* Assist the Directorate Business Management Team during the annual planning round and in the production of the Local Delivery Plan (LDP). Including:
Ø Responsibility for collating updates of the Directorate Annual Plan with the Directorate Senior Management Team;
Ø Ensuring that the Directorate risk register remains up to date;
Ø Reporting of complex service activity to inform the business planning process.
* Provide support to the Directorate Business Management Team in the production of local business plans in line with the Directorate's service priorities.
* To draft agendas, collate papers and take minutes of project and service development meetings and follow up action as required.
* To support the Directorate Business Management Team in the development of complex project plans for service developments.
To co-ordinate and provide financial management support to the senior management team:
* To facilitate the delivery of financial information to support the management of the budget and business planning process of the Directorate. Including:
Ø Regular reporting key performance indicators.
Ø Support to the Business Management Team in developing the local response to reporting.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care
Policy:
* The post holder will be working with Informatics, Transformation, Quality and Finance colleagues to propose and implement changes impacting across these areas. Accordingly, the post holder will also have to implement changes within their own area and the team.
General
* Respond to non-routine requests for information from key stakeholders including local Commissioning Groups, senior clinical team and senior management team including the Service Director within agreed timescales.
* Deputise as required during management absence at internal and external meetings
* To assist the Business and Performance Manager with the supervision and provision of effective leadership to the business and admin staff working for the Senior Managers within the Director's office to ensure continuity of working practices across the trust
* Regularly present complex data and reports to Senior Clinical Team, Directorate Management Team, local commissioners and to Trust wide groups
* Liaise with the local authority and commissioners on key performance areas which may be commercially sensitive and contentious.
* Lead and manage the team responses to Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
* Contribute to the overall work of the Directorate as identified by the Business Management Team and support development programs and projects within the Directorate as required.
* Foster close working relationships with staff within the Directorate and across the Trust
Undertake any other duties as required that are consistent with the grade and the nature of the post