Band 9 – Director of Efficiency & Clinical Productivity

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Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

The RFL Director of Efficiency & Clinical Productivity leads and supports achievement of the Royal Free London’s group-wide goals and governing objectives through the delivery of a portfolio of major programme and change activity. The role supports the organisational wide delivery capacity, particularly around improving productivity and sustainability through core activities such as CIP delivery and efficiency plans, and the successful delivery of major change that will deliver multi-year productivity improvement. The role will provide the Director level leadership to the development and delivery of the annual Efficiency & Clinical Productivity Programme.

The role will need to build relationships and influence delivery across a range of portfolios, to include digital, technology and workforce transformation as well as a series of projects focused on successful implementation of tactical CIP and strategic service changes, this role is fundamental to creating the expert support to the Group and the Health Units to successfully deliver changes that improve services, increase value, reduce unwarranted variation in costs, and improve the delivery capability of the organisation. The delivery of this portfolio will help stabilise the Royal Free London’s underlying financial position and create a secure platform from which further and more radical transformation for future sustainability and improvements to the model of care can take place.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with leaders across the Royal Free London Group in operating highly effective and rigorous financial improvement methodologies that enables and ensures saving schemes deliver to time, quality, cost and performance.

• Role modelling and embedding deep understanding of risk and dependency management within and across the Efficiency and Clinical Productivity Programme and wider organisational and clinical transformation agenda;
• Leading, inspiring and managing specialist efficiency business partners, programme, project and PMO professionals, along with wider delivery partner resources to ensure quality delivery, build strong and effective relationships across the group and create alignment to key organisational strategies, goals and objectives;
• Championing and improving financial improvement delivery standards and driving up compliance through the development, improvement and standardisation of guidance materials, toolkits and techniques that ensure and safeguard alignment and consistency;

Working for our organisation

• Realisation of financial benefits through highly effective financial planning, forecasting, monitoring and control in accordance with the principles for effective management of public mon
• Providing high quality evidence and insight into the Efficiency and Clinical Productivity Programme performance, enabling effective action and decision making at Director, Executive Group and Board level, system / region wide and nationally.

You will be part of the senior leadership cadre for Royal Free London and accountable in this way for developing a capable, engaged, inclusive, non-discriminatory and high performing organisation that nurtures colleague wellbeing and enables all to bring and be their best.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applications are sought from individuals with extensive experience of directly delivering cost improvement in the acute sector of the NHS and leading teams in a complex environment.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 29th January 2025.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Experience of operating at a senior level in a complex NHS Trust – 8D or above
• Evidence of delivering cost improvement in the NHS acute sector
• Track record of leading high performing teams with a positive culture

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