Deputy Director of Transformation

Job overview

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an innovative and dynamic leader to provide leadership to the transformation agenda to generate improvements and to ensure resilience and coherence across our services.

The Deputy Director of Transformation and their team will work in partnership with clinical, operational and corporate teams to achieve positive project and programme outcomes that make a contribution to the sustainable provision of health services within the Trust, across the local health economy and beyond.

They will be responsible for raising the profile of the Transformation Team within the Trust and work with colleagues to build project management capability and capacity. They will advocate and act consistently as a role model by championing the Trust's leadership behaviours, vision and values, ensuring that advice, guidance, and support provided by their team are values-based and role-modelled within the team themselves.

The successful candidate will have significant experience of delivering measurable transformation, continuous improvement and change management at a senior level and will be able to work effectively to deliver a complex programme across multiple sites.

This role will be based at County Hall, Norwich with travel to Trust sites across Norfolk and Suffolk when required.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a senior member of the Clinical Transformation Directorate, responsible for providing expert input and facilitation in terms of service development, redesign, transformation and programme delivery for prioritised initiatives. You will have individual responsibility for high priority development programmes within the Trust, many of  which in partnership with other organisations, thereby enabling the modernisation of services.  You'll play a key role, working with clinical and service leads and other members of the senior management team, in identifying opportunities for service development and design, developing a programme approach to implementation of improvement and transformation and ensuring that benefits realised can be clearly articulated and evidenced. The postholder will play a key role with others in the team including the Chief Transformation Officer in shaping the methodology and approach to service development and transformation and ensuring effective working and delivery of those direct reports managed.  The post holder will work in partnership with staff at all levels of the organisation and within both the Norfolk and Waveney and Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Systems.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information and a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Interviews for this role will take place between 13th and 27th January 2025.