Head of DMO

As a highly visible leader and member of the Trust's Senior Leadership Team, the Head of Delivery Management Office (DMO) will oversee and have responsibility for the development, delivery and reporting of the organisation's Cost Improvement Programme (CIP), providing the necessary assurance to the Executive Team, Trust Board and all requisite external stakeholders as to the ongoing performance of this vital financial efficiency programme., Reporting to the Chief Finance Office, the Head of DMO will lead the DMO Team in pursuit of the identification of a suitable portfolio of financial efficiency and improvement schemes that will deliver the Trust's mandated CIP target each year. This will be achieved by supporting all Trust divisions and corporate services in transforming the way we deliver services to realise recurrent financial savings. The Head of DMO will be the lead architect in the development of the Trust's CIP programme and will be responsible for overseeing and supporting its delivery and formal reporting in line with Trust SOPs, achieving excellent results for patients as well as ensuring financial sustainability for the Trust going forward, via growing and maintaining close working relationships with the Clinical Divisions and other corporate directorates across the organisation and PLACE/ICS partners., 1. Be responsible for co-ordinating, managing and leading the end-to-end delivery of the Trust's CIP programme, ensuring its alignment to Trust, ICS, and national priorities.

2. To lead on identifying key programmes of work to deliver improvement capability and cultural change across the entire organisation, with regard to continuous financial improvement.

3. To lead on identifying key workstreams, investigation areas, projects and programmes of work to deliver specific financial improvements, requiring the analysis of all of the Trust's key data sets, including granular patient level and up to Trust-wide data, and the creation of suitable evidence bases to support the identification of specific projects and programmes of work with senior Trust leadership teams.

4. To ensure robust and effective governance and reporting systems are in place to provide assurance to the Trust Board and Executive Team that the CIP is delivering.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.