Deputy Chief Strategy Officer - Internal Only

Job overview

**This position is open to staff working at the Trust in the ‘ECT Family’ this includes current East Cheshire NHS Trust employees, both NHSP and ECT bank staff, ISS staff and volunteers at the Trust. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications from applicants not listed within these groups. **

This new and exciting post will be part of the Trust’s senior leadership team, and provide effective and innovate leadership of the Trust’s strategic delivery from a clinical, digital and organisational perspective. The postholder is expected to work collaboratively and across organisational boundaries with a co-design and co-production approach.

Reporting into the Chief Operations, Innovation & Strategy Officer, the postholder lead on Trust strategy activity with a focus on how we improve health outcomes for the local population. This will include facilitated clinical partnership arrangements, developing new models of care across the Cheshire East place and locality, and support colleagues and leaders across the Trust by providing advice on developing clinical services and associated business plans.

This post is a secondment opportunity for up to 12months, on a part-time (22.5 / 0.6 WTE) basis.

This post is subject to the CQC Fit and Proper Person's Test.

Main duties of the job

• To lead the development and implementation of Trust strategy – clinical, digital and organisation
• To facilitate any necessary tactical clinical partnership arrangements
• To support the development of the annual planning submission
• To support the Chief Operations, Innovation & Strategy Officer (and through the COO the Chief Executive) in their strategy and partnership work across the Cheshire East place, Cheshire and Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
• To develop through co-design specific elements of the new model of care for significant areas of Cheshire East acute and community service provision taking account of co-dependencies across health and social care provision
• To ensure the continuous development of clinical service strategies and business plans to support the achievement of the Trust's organisational strategy
• Responsible for providing leadership support and advice to clinical and support teams to develop clinical service change proposals and business plans using the post holders expertise and knowledge of the system wide health and care landscape, in areas where expert opinion differs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached Applicant Pack prior to completing your application form to find out more information.

Please download a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification located under the Supporting documents heading to read more about the advertised role.

As part of making your application we encourage you to review the Trusts Careers webpage www.careersateastcheshire.nhs.uk for more information about working for East Cheshire NHS Trust.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).

Applicants are advised to apply early as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date should we receive a large number of applications.

We look forward to receiving your application.