The Financial Recovery Programme works across the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System to identify opportunities for savings or efficiencies, to develop these initiatives into robust, evidence-based delivery plans and to oversee the realisation of identified benefits.
The Financial Recovery Programme Management Office (PMO) provides support to the Senior Responsible Officers and workstream leads for these initiatives by providing expertise to develop, monitor and track projects to ensure effective and timely delivery of the financial benefits. The team is critical to enabling the ICB and System partners to achieve Financial Recovery during 2024/25 and into 2025/26, and to ensure value for money, working at pace in a complex environment.
The role is required to work flexibly, at pace in a complex environment, as well as the need for team members to be able to naturally support, challenge and drive other senior colleagues from the ICB and across the system on a regular basis
The role of the Associate Director, Financial Recovery PMO is to lead and ensure the effective delivery of the Financial Recovery Programme Team and programme.

Specifically, the post holder will be responsible for;

• Leading an evidenced based approach to identifying new productivity opportunities
• Using knowledge of transformation and delivery of productivity initiatives to proactively support teams across the system to deliver CIP targets and stretch targets when required.
• Working with SROs and other key stakeholders to build effective relationships and ensure engagement across portfolios
• Supporting matrix working across the Directorate, with other ICB Directorates and the wider system.
• Supporting Workstream Leads through providing strategic problem solving, using excellent influencing and negotiating skills, preparing content and documentation for discussion at leadership levels; escalating issues as necessary through the Financial Recovery Touchpoint meeting.
• Supporting the Finance Team in initiating routine budget reviews and identifying areas for internal (ICB) savings opportunities
• Working as team leader and line managing PMO Leads and Officers
• Horizon scanning nationally to identify any other ideas for opportunities.
• Set up, co-ordination and drive of the Improvement Room approach, with the aim to identify data-based challenges and opportunities for 2025/26 (and financial years going forward) to develop cash releasing plans accordingly

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
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• Leading an evidenced based approach to identifying new productivity opportunities
• Using knowledge of transformation and delivery of productivity initiatives to proactively support teams across the system to deliver CIP targets and stretch targets when required.
• Working with SROs and other key stakeholders to build effective relationships and ensure engagement across portfolios
• Supporting matrix working across the Directorate, with other ICB Directorates and the wider system.
• Supporting Workstream Leads through providing strategic problem solving, using excellent influencing and negotiating skills, preparing content and documentation for discussion at leadership levels; escalating issues as necessary through the Financial Recovery Touchpoint meeting.
• Supporting the Finance Team in initiating routine budget reviews and identifying areas for internal (ICB) savings opportunities
• Working as team leader and line managing PMO Leads and Officers
• Horizon scanning nationally to identify any other ideas for opportunities.
• Set up, co-ordination and drive of the Improvement Room approach, with the aim to identify data-based challenges and opportunities for 2025/26 (and financial years going forward) to develop cash releasing plans accordingl