Main area Provider Collaborative - Elective Reform Grade Band 9 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 438-PB3119-A

Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Preston Business Centre Town Fulwood Salary £109,179 - £125,637 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2025 23:59

Band 9

Job overview

Key responsibilities include driving system-wide transformation priorities, achieving national elective standards, reducing waiting lists, improving health equity, and ensuring service sustainability. You will represent LSC at meetings, ensuring stakeholders are informed of national guidance.

The role involves engaging and leading a diverse group of staff to deliver the programme, ensuring collaborative operation among stakeholders. Operating with high political awareness, you will work with various boards, providers, partnerships, regulators, patients, and carers. You will plan and establish programmes, manage team members, and ensure alignment across clinical teams.

This role requires excellent leadership, expertise in cross-organisational transformation, and programme management skills. Knowledge in elective services delivery is essential for credibility and effectiveness.

You will lead the LSC Elective Reform Programme and aligned transformation initiatives and work with the Portfolio Director (Clinical Reform) to develop and execute a combined workplan.

Applications for this role will be through our dedicated TRAC recruitment system where you will complete some key information, using the Supporting Information section to write a personal statement to support your application and also attach your CV.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a dynamic leader to oversee the Elective Reform Programme, ensuring the creation and implementation of collaborative programmes that support the achievement of reform objectives while maintaining financial and operational sustainability. The role involves establishing effective governance and assurance processes, building strong relationships with stakeholders, and fostering a collaborative culture to improve services.

Key responsibilities include developing processes to engage patients, families, and carers, producing essential programme documentation, and leading transparent decision-making processes. You will also manage cross-organisational initiatives, champion patient interests, and share best practices across various levels. Additionally, the role involves developing and implementing project management methodologies, securing funding, and prioritising projects to maximise impact. You will be accountable for authorising expenditures, managing the programme team, and ensuring evidence-based decision-making.

Working for our organisation

The five Acute and Mental Health NHS Trusts in Lancashire and South Cumbria have established a collaborative to improve health and healthcare services. The primary objectives are to reduce health inequalities, enhance services, outcomes, and patient experience through working in partnership with the Integrated Care Board to enable system recovery, transformation and long-term sustainability. Additionally, the collaborative aims to make Lancashire and South Cumbria a great place to live and work.

The Provider Collaboration Board, which leads this initiative, comprises the Chairs and Chief Executives of the five Trusts, who jointly make decisions to benefit the 1.8 million residents of the area. This collaborative effort is a key component of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System, underscoring the importance of unified healthcare delivery.

Collaborative Members:

• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead on the creation a clear framework for the Elective Reform Programme and the creation and agreement of collaborative programmes that collectively support the achievement of Elective Reform objectives, whilst driving the financial and operational sustainability of services.
• Ensure effective governance and assurance processes are in place to ensure robust oversight, insight and implementation of the programme plan. This will be done in close collaboration with the financial and operational planning for LSC.
• Through building and maintaining effective relationships with a range of stakeholders, influence and engender a collaborative culture to the improvement of services.
• Build and maintain high levels of support for the elective reform agenda and the programmes amongst all member organisations. This will require the establishment of effective and productive working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, champions and advocates.
• Develop processes, channels and structures necessary to provide opportunities for patients, families and carers to be informed, engaged, involved and consulted at every stage of the programme.
• Lead the production of key documents, such as the Elective Reform workplan and associated programme documentation, assurance and delivery reports, performance dashboards and data insights, and, where appropriate, business case development.
• Demonstrate effective and transparent decision-making, basing decisions on full option appraisals with the ability to clearly articulate the relative benefits and dis-benefits of each option. Support recommendations with a clear and concise rationale.
• Lead the development of effective governance arrangements and policies to ensure clarity of decision-making and in the role of each partner/organisation in those processes.
• Lead and deliver effective matrix working within the Elective Reform Programme and stakeholder organisations to ensure effective cross-organisational working to drive quality initiatives. Act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of the ERP. Actively ensure learning and best practice is shared across Providers, localities and also regional and nationally, to produce a lasting legacy for future transformation programmes.
• Develop and implement a project and programme management methodology ensuring that workstreams are managed with clear accountabilities including PIDS, project plans, KPIs and risk registers.
• Lead development of policies for Elective Reform and nationally where applicable.
• Lead the development and approval of funding bids and business cases, including the establishment of a compelling case of need required to support the implementation of programmes. This will also include budget analysis, modelling and projection to ensure that the programmes are clear outcomes which are delivered.
• Responsible for the effective prioritisation of projects to maximise programme impact and delivery, ensuring that there is measurable and sustainable progress.
• Accountable for authorising expenditure, commissioning and procurement processes for the programmes in line with agreed delegated authorities/decision rights.
• Line manage and supervise the programme team to deliver the programme.
• Ensure evidence and analytics are secured to support and inform programmes and support insight in the use of these to drive quality and cost improvement.
• Commission and contract for new information resources as required. Develop local implementation plans and processes relating to national mandates and policy areas.

Person specification

Qualification and Education

• Educated to Masters level or demonstrable experience of working at a senior level
• Significant experience of continued professional development towards Board level.

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience of delivering quality services within a complex acute setting.
• Understanding of programme management principles and theory and their practical application in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders and across a large geographical / population area.
• Understanding of change management and continuous improvement principles and theory and their practical application.
• Knowledge and understanding of health data and profiles and ability to interrogate and analyse this data.
• Experience of planning over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjusting plans and resources accordingly in line with national and local requirements.
• Experience of using performance management / improvement systems to drive change, including use of KPIs and translating strategic objectives into team and individual objectives.
• Experience of providing, receiving and conveying and presenting highly complex, sensitive and / or contentious information and ensuring full understanding whilst being politically astute.
• Experience of developing successful business cases / cases of need from inception to final approve stage.

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Name Jonathan Wood Job title Managing Director - Provider Collaborative Email address jonathan.wood@lthtr.nhs.uk Telephone number 07540018305