Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview /We are looking for an experienced strategic leader to help us deliver our ambitious and exciting plans for women’s and children’s services across South Thames and the South East of England. The Evelina London Clinical Group is part of Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust and leads the delivery of women’s and children’s services across the Trust including across our Royal Brompton and community sites. The Clinical Group operates with autonomy both operationally and strategically but within the context of the bigger Trust. To lead the development and delivery of the strategy and vision for women’s and children’s services you will need to be able to work across multiple complex agendas developing strong partnerships across our system including with relevant ICBs, our academic partners and the Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation. As Programme Director for the Children’s Hospital Programme you will have the opportunity to lead a major capital and transformation programme helping to make our strategic ambitions for specialist children’s services a reality. You will be a senior member of the Evelina London Executive providing leadership across the Clinical Group both within your areas of responsibilities and beyond ensuring there is a focus on long term delivery and strategic service development. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing and friendly team who are committed to building clinical academic excellence across our services. Main duties of the job This Director of Strategy is a senior member of the Evelina London Executive Committee which has devolved responsibility for the operational delivery and strategic development of Evelina London Women’s & Children’s Healthcare. The post holder is a member of the Evelina London Board, and of various Trust-wide executive committees, and represents Evelina London on a range of partnership bodies. Children’s services are one of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s strategic priorities. The post leads across the Clinical Group’s strategic agenda, across a wide range of external partnerships, and across clinical and academic missions. The portfolio is wide-ranging, including clinical services strategy, , research and innovation and fundraising. In addition to leadership of their portfolio, the post holder is expected to lead on specific initiatives across the Clinical Group, as a member of the senior leadership team including the Programme Director role for the Children’s Hospital Programme. Working for our organisation Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Lead the development of Evelina London’s strategic direction & plans, ensuring that this takes due account of the Trust’s wider strategic plans, the external context, and internal strengths and capabilities, and is refreshed Ensure alignment with other Clinical Groups as appropriate. With the Evelina London Medical Director and the Directorate Management Teams, lead the development of Evelina London’s clinical and academic strategies to build upon Evelina London’s strengths to enable Evelina London to achieve its vision of becoming a world class clinical and academic Set the framework for clinical and academic strategy development within the Evelina London clinical directorates to ensure robustness and consistency, keeping planning systems and processes under review, and establishing transparent prioritisation mechanisms where Set the framework for the development of enabling strategies and plans, ensuring alignment and consistency across the Clinical Group’s functions. Provide guidance and support to functional leads as appropriate. Ensure that Evelina London plays an effective and leading role in the development of local place-based partnerships and service transformation programmes, working in collaboration with partners to establish new service, business and operating models that will deliver improved value for women, children, young people and their families and long term system sustainability and In particular to ensure that Evelina London’s input to Partnership Southwark and Lambeth Together is co-ordinated and impactful. Act as Programme Director for the Children’s Hospital Programme (CHP), a £200m capital development programme developing an OBC and associated plans for a new children’s hospital adjacent to Evelina London, working with the GSTT COO as Senior Responsible Officer and leading the CHP team. Person specification Experience Essential criteria Relevant senior management experience in a variety of health and/or social care settings with evidence of effective partnership working and multi stakeholder engagement Experience of working in a highly political environment, in which national and local imperatives are potentially in conflict and addressing different stakeholders appropriately Evidence of achievement of leading change through people and influence and securing high performance by effective collaborative partnership working and empowering others Skills Essential criteria Ability to successfully analyse complex issues and situations, provide logical decisions, and reconcile competing interests, providing practical and creative solutions to problems through collaborative working to promote corporate vision Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands, including an evidenced approach to robust programme management skills Personal style and behaviour Essential criteria Evidence of understanding of own strengths and limitations and self-impact on others Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Further details / informal visits contact Name Gubby Ayida Job title CEO, Evelina London Email address [email protected]