Strategic Business Partner - Strategic Development

at  Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

The Strategic Business Partner (Strategic Development) will be responsible for providing strong capable leadership and day-to-day direction to the strategic development, framework and planning function, and for supporting colleagues across the organisation and the wider health and care system.
The post holder will provide leadership to the directorate as part of an integrated leadership team with shared objectives and accountability for delivery of the directorate’s core business and for delivery of the FBI strategy.
The postholder is responsible to act as a role model for leadership, living and promoting the LCHS Way. It is an expectation that this role will support and encourage others to reach their full potential by creating an environment of empowerment through adopting a culture of ‘freedom coupled with accountability’.
The Strategic Business Partner (Strategic Development) will have shared responsibility with operations and corporate colleagues for ensuring high quality, sustainable service delivery including financial sustainability, effective performance, positive organisational reputation, and ensuring continuous improvements in the delivery of services across LCHS. They will do this through maintaining a focus on systems, processes, culture, performance and behaviours.
The postholder will work strategically and tactically across care divisions, corporate services, and FBI Operational Delivery and Business Partnering functions to manage the function of Strategic Development.
This is a highly complex role requiring the postholder to keep abreast of a wide range of national and local health and social care policy developments and ensure these are reflected in the delivery of the trust’s services Strategic Developments. The Strategic Business Partner (Strategic Development) will:
Support the Trust in new ways of working with regard to strategic business development, frameworks and planning, ensuring that developments enable LCHS to play a leading role in a number of strategic alliances and partnerships and that contracting and partnership frameworks enable the trust to achieve its strategic objectives.
The role will ensure that the Trust is able to respond effectively to the strategic direction of the organisation, Lincolnshire health system, and the changing wider health and care environment.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Day to day management of the business planning processes, which takes initiatives from the initiation of a proposal through delivery and controlled closure and understanding the benefits realisation and sustainability of the change.
The mobilisation of projects will sit within the Transformation Team, however not all initiatives require project management support therefore this role will provide strategic business support to the generation of scoping documents, business cases, options appraisals, funding applications and investment panel support.
Maintaining a log of all initiatives; coordinating how ideas are assessed; quality assuring business cases before they are reviewed by the required governance framework and the Executive Leadership Team; managing the flow of documentation for all scheme proposals and ensuring that the appropriate documents are produced and submitted in line with the agreed process.
Assist Strategic Business Managers and Partners in planning, frameworks and business development, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate, working within a matrix structure.
Support the Strategic Business Manager - Strategic Development in the development of the future strategy.
Provide the process for quality assurance of business cases, ensuring that all progressing through the FBI are robust, and provide the appropriate level of information for informed business decisions to be made.
Track and maintain progress information, monitoring performance information and communicate to stakeholders the progress and identify where performance targets have not been met in relation to progress on plans and projects.
Support the dependencies and the interfaces between plans and projects and influencing decisions on a range of complex issues where there is more than one course of action.
Ensure that the delivery of new services from plans and projects that the post holder leads, is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the project plan.
Ensure that the risks to a plan or project’s successful outcome are reported and managed.
Undertake research and development activities related to a plan or project, such as complex audits.
Initiate extra activities wherever gaps in plan or projects are identified.
Coordinate arrangements for meetings of the strategic development / planning group and associated plan/project and/or task and finish groups; chairing relevant meetings.
Reporting progress of the plans, projects / programmes at regular intervals to the Strategic Business Manager, Deputy Director Strategy and Partnership, Executive Leadership Team and Board committees.
Ensure that the benefits of plan/project activities are identified and measured and tracked.
Ensure that the planning process is followed by all staff undertaking relevant projects, from initiation to closure and benefits realisation.
Support other partners/managers with post plan/project review.
Provide training and support to staff in planning, and promote the use of planning / business development across the organisation

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