Programme Director – Provider Collaboratives

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to work for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) across two Integrated Care Systems, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berks West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS) and Frimley ICS d evelop ing and implementing our approach to p rovider c ollaborati on across mental health, physical health and children and all age family services.
Berkshire Healthcare is rated as an Outstanding Trust by the CQC . We pride ourselves in recruiting staff who display our values and the right behaviours and work hard to create a culture which respects all our staff for the unique contribution they make to ensuring high quality care is delivered. We are proud to have an ambitious anti-racism strategy and health inequalities strategy and are about to refresh our three-to-five-year corporate strategy. We believe that working in partnership with others is the only way to meet the challenges the NHS and Berkshire community faces.
The Programme Director for Provider Collaboratives will lead the BHFT approach to working in collaboration with other providers, primary care, local authorities, the voluntary and community sector and our acute partners in a collaborative approach to transforming services, addressing health inequalities and embedding the approach to coproduction across our collaborative working.
Whilst this is a full-time post flexible working and working from home can be accommodated in agreement with the line manager.
Provider Collaborative Strategy development , including vision, ambitions and outcomes.
Pro gramme governance, planning and leadership.
Developing an evidence-based methodology /approach to framing our ambitions and outcomes for the provider collaboratives
Leading on the organisational development that ensures collaborative working becomes the norm for BHFT and its partners (in appropriate areas )
Providing expert advice, guidance and support to BHFT clinical, operational and non-clinical colleagues (for e.g. finance, IG, digital etc) supporting collaborative working
The post holder will work alongside the Clinical Director s and appropriate leads , ICB Director(s), System Senior Responsible Officers, community and acute provider leads, other potential providers such as social care and the place-based project teams, data quality and outcomes leads and other team members across Berkshire and the two local systems .
They will be required to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across BOB and Frimley .
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

1. Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification.
2. S ignificant experience of working at a senior level in specialist area supported by professional development.
3. Additional extensive experience or qualifications achieved through further study or practical experience in relevant areas, including analysis, complex report writing at a strategic level and/or project management or negotiation
4. E vidence of recent and ongoing professional development. Specific training/experience in application of quality improvement methodology . Prince2 or MSP qualified.
5. Significant experience of complex healthcare programme management .
6. Significant knowledge of community and/or mental health and social care services
7. U nderstand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in this area
8. Experience of working with and leading a multifunctional team within a complex high-profile change programme . Significant experience of system wide working and working in complex environments.
9. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time and to budget
10. Significant experience of system wide working and working in complex environments.
11. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time and to budget.
12. Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
13. Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
14. Extensive experience of working with multiple stakeholders.
15. Experience of implementing change through team working.
16. Experience of setting up and implementing external processes and procedures.
17. Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
18. Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
19. Awareness of NHS infrastructure, governance, and healthcare policy.
20. Experience of preparing and presenting complex information to stakeholders.
21. Ability to research and analyse numerical and written data, assess options, and draw appropriate conclusions .
22. Affective use of relevant Microsoft Office applications and relevant information systems; Advanced Keyboard skills.
23. Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
24. Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
25. Demonstrated ability of continually striving to meet high quality standards.
26. Ability to embrace new challenges.
27. Resilience, emotional intelligence, and political awareness.
28. Comfortable working in an ambiguous and fast-moving environment
    For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
    We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point - by - point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
    We’re c ommitted to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditation s: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed .
    We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Kathryn MacDermott, Director of Strategic Planning, mobile: 07769 363626 email : Kathryn.macdermott@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
    Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
    Interview will be held on 3rd March 202