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 NHS LPP has designed a new vision and strategy that better responds to our customers achieving maximum value and savings in the current challenging NHS landscape. The new strategy puts Sustainability and Social Value at the heart of what we do. As a result, a new Sustainability and Social Value (SSV) team have been created that includes a newly created Social Value manager posts. This role will support the New Hospital Programme (NHP). Reporting to the Assistant Business Director, the social Value manager will play a vital role in the success of NHS LPP. The postholder will lead on providing better strategic engagement and business intelligence, as well as develop existing and new opportunities for NHS LPP, meeting NHS LPP Steering Board agreed targets and objectives. This will be a multifaceted role with responsibility for the new Social Value tool which is being rolled about across London to report, monitor and track Social Value commitments made in competitive tendering processes and other agreements. The post holder will work across all NHS LPP category experts and other departments to ensure that members’ Social Value requirements are met with a strategic and a well-considered approach, in line with PPN06/20, NHSEI guidance and local priorities. The post holder will also be the NHS LPP super user for the Social Value tool Main duties of the job Co-develop training material that supports the roll out of the new tool. Support NHS LPP to become a centre of Social Value excellence within the health economy and across the wider public sector by ensuring customers and the market understand the NHS LPP value proposition in order to influence buying decisions. Lead on representing the customer voice to develop the tool to ensure it remains fit for purpose. Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing customers as well as connected stakeholders across the wider service to build NHS LPP’s social Value reputation and strategic position. Represent NHS LPP as a progressive, proactive, responsive and innovative organisation with a purpose to improve peoples’ lives through the delivery of best in class social value criteria in procurements, with an ambition to reach ‘world-class’. Working for our organisation NHS LPP develops and manages collaborative procurement projects on behalf of its members including acute, community and mental health trusts, as well as CCGs. NHS LPP has a number of customers outside of London. This postholder will lead on strategic, category-specific engagement with customers to increase existing spend across the entire NHS LPP workstreams; identify new business opportunities; provide critical intel between customers and category experts sourced from current challenges faced by customers and or competitor behaviours to improve our service offer. The organisation will continue to develop as a centre of commercial excellence that delivers significant and sustainable cost and service improvements to all stakeholders primarily in the London economy but also outside London. NHS LPP are proud to be accredited by Investors & People. Detailed job description and main responsibilities The postholder will form part of the Sustainability and Social Value team, responsible for delivering Social Value and savings for NHS LPP customers. The role will lead on a number of NHS LPP customer Social Value accounts, including managing day-to-day relationships and ensuring ongoing development and growth. The postholder will work in an integrated way with NHS LPP category experts and other departments to ensure they represent the current Social Value proposition and objectives in a relevant and strategic way. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Degree level or equivalent training and experience Desirable criteria Member of related professional body or equivalent Experience Essential criteria Demonstrable background and specific experience in developing Social Value strategies Delivering Social Value plans in a complex environment Desirable criteria Demonstrable experience of planning, managing and delivering stakeholder programmes and projects Skills Essential criteria Acts as a strong leader and is respected by key stakeholders and other senior decision makers of stakeholder organisations Desirable criteria Works collaboratively to positively influence stakeholders and embed NHS LPP value proposition 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 Remi Banjo Job title Assistant Business Director Email address [email protected] Telephone number 02071887188