Strategy and Implementation Units Strategy and Delivery Advisor

In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.

The Department of Health and Social Care Implementation and Strategy Units support Ministers to deliver their top priorities for the health and social care system. They are central teams that sit within the Department's Ministers, Accountability and Strategy Directorate. They play a key role in forming and delivering the Department's strategic objectives across all aspects of health and care.

Would you like to work at the heart of the Department of Health and Social Care, thinking about the big strategy and delivery challenges facing the health and social care system now and in the future? We are recruiting to the Strategy Unit and the Implementation Units which both play key roles in developing and delivering the Department's top priorities.

The Strategy Unit works on the big strategic questions and challenges facing the health and social care system. We work jointly with policy teams on key strategic policy development and conduct our own projects in areas of ministerial priority. We also act as an "incubator" for new ideas and are externally focused maintaining close links with wider stakeholder groups, including think-tanks, the health and care sector and academics.

The Implementation Unit ensures delivery of the Secretary of State's top priorities by investigating and intervening where problems emerge, and by making recommendations to Ministers on how to improve system performance. We work closely with policy teams to track and challenge delivery and with No10 and the Cabinet Office to deliver joined up solutions. We gather and analyse performance data and conduct our own deep dives to understand and unblock tough challenges, including by speaking directly with frontline staff.

Successful candidates for both teams will benefit from a wide overview of the Department's work, proximity to Ministers and the senior leadership team of the Department, and direct involvement in the top priorities of the day. They will have the opportunity to learn and deploy a range of strategic, problem solving and delivery tools and techniques.