Strategy Manager

at  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

We are looking to recruit a Strategy Manager - this is an exciting opportunity to work across the Trust, with South East London partners and with patients to support the development of service-level clinical strategy, the refresh of the Trust’s Green Plan to ensure we can meet national expectations and wider strategic planning and horizon scanning.
The post holder will work as part of the Strategy team to manage and support a portfolio of partnership and strategy related work. This will include, but is not limited to, supporting the work of relevant partnerships boards, facilitating teams to deliver aspects of the Trust strategy, working with clinical leaders and management teams to develop effective strategies and leading time-limited task and finish work.
The post holder will work as part of the Strategy team to manage and support a portfolio of partnership and strategy related work. This will include, but is not limited to, supporting the work of relevant partnerships boards, facilitating teams to deliver aspects of the Trust strategy and undertaking task and finish strategy development work.
The successful candidate will need to employ highly effective communication (written and oral), negotiation and influencing skills to build networks and relationships. Experience of managing competing priorities to deliver projects within agreed timeframes will be necessary. You will need a wide range of analytical skills and you must be able to demonstrate that you are a strong team player with a flexible and adaptive approach.
You will lead the design and support the implementation of strategy that delivers evidence-based solutions to our strategic priorities. This includes proactively engaging with and facilitating wide and diverse groups of clinical and operational staff, developing and delivering programme plans, risk management, overseeing budgets and business cases, and benefits realisation plans.
You will provide updates and high level communication at a strategic level to senior leaders through governance groups and wider stakeholders. You will receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, and be able to use it to bring colleagues to resolution and agreement.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

• Working collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical teams to support the development and implementation of clinical strategy
• Support the delivery of the Trust strategy by managing processes to identify and monitor key milestones and deliverables across clinical divisions and wider Trust programmes
• Act as a key interface between clinical divisions and other corporate teams (finance, workforce, IT and estates) in developing and progressing clinical strategy
• Design and update templates for monitoring progress and work closely with divisional and corporate teams to ensure their timely submission
• With the AD of Strategy and divisional teams undertake any work required to manage and deliver cross-Trust strategic priorities. This will include receiving, analysing and presenting complex, sensitive and contentious information, bringing differing views to resolution and monitoring progress against agreed actions
• Negotiating, facilitating and successfully bringing contentious or differing views to resolution
• Develop and support communications related to the Trust’s clinical strategy including producing highly effective briefings for senior leaders to support decision-making, giving presentations to relevant groups of staff or the public and identifying further opportunities for engagement
• Support existing and new partnership boards by planning the work-programme, producing updates and following up actions
• Develop strong working relationships across the Trust, and with partners across the NHS and partner organisations
• Provide progress reports orally and in writing to a range of stakeholders.
• Lead or support task and finish strategic work or development, bringing others with you through effective, credible leadership
• Liaise with divisional and corporate teams to ensure consistency and coherence between local plans and the Trust strategy
• Provide expertise and advice to divisional or corporate teams on strategic issues and to act, and be recognised, as an expert in developing strategy
• Proactively horizon scan upcoming developments nationally or locally, and bring them to the attention of relevant teams with clear recommendations on relevant implications for the Trust

Please refer the Job description for details