Planning and Performance Lead

at  NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

Job Opportunity –Planning and Performance Lead (Band 8a)
Fixed term until 31 March 2025
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the Planning and Performance Team in this new role as part of a team of Planning and Performance Leads.
You will take a lead role within Primary Care portfolio to identify performance issues and work with system partners to meet planning requirements. This will include ensuring system plans are embedded into delivery groups, identifying areas for improvement, developing improvement plans as required and monitoring delivery of plans against key milestones.
You will need to communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information on planning, performance and assurance to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders by providing concise briefings and reports.
To excel at this role, you need to have excellent communication skills, planning and organisational skills, data analysis skills, be experienced in report writing and be able to influence, negotiate and challenge to drive improvements.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact angie.parkes@nhs.net
The Planning and Performance Lead will play a key role within the Planning and Performance Team to support the Head of Planning and Performance to deliver effective planning and performance functions.
The role will support the Head of Planning and Performance to ensure the ICB has robust plans in place to deliver key priorities and to deliver an effective performance and assurance function.
The postholder will play a key role in providing the link from their identified portfolio area into Planning and Performance activities.
About us – Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin (STW) Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Our goal as an organisation is to lead and support delivery of the four Integrated Care System (ICS) aims across STW.

• Improving outcomes in population health and care
• Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
• Enhancing productivity and value for money
• Helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.

All staff are required to model the values of the organisation detailed below, to support the ICB to successfully deliver these aims.
Be responsible for being the link from the identified portfolio area into the planning process including ensuring system planning and performance frameworks are effectively communicated, ensuring they contribute to the development of key plans and strategies as well as the annual planning round. Ensuring the plans map to commissioning intentions as well as local, regional and national priorities and that the portfolio areas plan to meet national planning targets where appropriate. Ensure the planned actions from the operational plan and the Joint Forward Plan are effectively managed and monitored through the relevant working group.
Work closely with the Performance Analysts and the Business Intelligence function to ensure that information management needs are met. Analyse, interpret and present data and information about performance from multiple sources to highlight issues, risks and support decision making. Work with complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations and comparisons on a range of options and making recommendations on the most appropriate approach. Act as the gatekeeper for BI requests for their portfolio.
Ensure systems, processes and information flows provide effective early warning of potential risks to service quality. Work with system partners to develop, implement and monitor performance improvement plans. Advocate the improvement plans across the system and ensure the plans maintain full business focus and align to the strategic priorities of the ICB.
Effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive information to stakeholders through reports, presentations, briefings etc. Prepare reports and briefings for meetings including Governing Body, Committees, and Senior Management Team meetings. Support the Head of Planning and Performance in managing corporate performance returns for service area. Demonstrate a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes.
Lead the delivery of performance related project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
Support the Senior Planning and Performance Lead in developing outcome measures for portfolio areas.
Support the local management of predicable events (e.g. winter planning) and other less predictable events

Please refer the Job description for details