Associate Director - Transformation & Improvement

The Associate Director - Transformation & Improvement will be responsible for a diverse range of quality, transformation, service improvement and business development priorities which support the BCPC Managing Director, CMO and Clinical Leads to drive delivery of an agreed programme of priorities that contribute to the delivery of the BCPC annual workplan, working at scale across the ICS with its four partner Trusts., Support the BCPC Managing Director with the following range of general business duties:

Developing and establishing the BCPC annual workplan and supporting resource requirements.

Establish performance monitoring processes for the delivery of the identified and agreed priorities.

Develop and manage key clinical service business cases to support service change and transformation activities.

Work with the BCPC Executive Finance Lead and other appropriate colleagues to support the delivery of the BCPC contribution of the system Financial Recovery Plan.

Coordinate and consolidate key contributions from team members that promotes the work of the BCPC through effective communications such as the Annual Report, Newsletters, Clinical Summits, ICS workshops, and monthly JPC briefings.

There is no direct line management or budget ownership responsibility expected as part of this role, but this role will support the BCPC Managing Director, and there will be some management supervision of team members from time to time.

Support the CMO in managing the agenda and programme of monthly Clinical Leads Group (CLG) meetings. In so doing, review and manage the detailed reports and presentations for the CLG meetings highlighting any key areas of risk or concern along with proposing actions to resolve those identified as well as any potential problems expected.

The postholder is expected to be an experienced competent self-starter, a capable and credible individual, ideally with recent diverse management experiences of both commissioning and provider segments of healthcare.

Provider collaboratives are partnerships that bring together two or more NHS trusts to work together at scale to benefit their populations. These partnerships are being established across England as part of a national policy, entitled "Working together at scale: Guidance on Provider Collaboratives", that requires all trusts providing acute and mental health services to be part of one or more provider collaboratives by April 2022.

The Black Country Provider Collaborative (BCPC) is made up of four partner trusts:

Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Together, they work collaboratively to deliver effective, accessible, and sustainable care services across the Black Country, reaching a total population of around 1.3million people.