Head of Performance inCambridge inCambridge PUBLISHED 9 DEC 2023

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 23rd October 2024

Interviews are due to be held on 13th November 2024

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced individual to join Cambridge University Hospitals and lead our newly established Performance Function, benefiting our patients, colleagues, organisation and local system.

The Head of Performance is a Senior Leader within CUH, reporting to the Director of Delivery and will have regular contact with the Executive Team. As the Head of Performance, you will have the opportunity to build your own team, embedding a culture of accountability and performance across the organisation. The Performance Function is critical in supporting CUH to deliver high quality, effective and efficent care.

Working closely with colleagues across Corporate and Divisional Teams, with a particularly strong relationship with the Head of Delivery, you will ensure that we are using business intelligence to drive insightful and impactful conversations about performance which lead to tangible change. You will not only have accountability for in year performance, but will also play a key role in longer term trust-wide planning and development of governance and reporting arrangements.

• We are looking for an expert leader to take forward the Trust's new central performance function.
• The team will be responsible for ensuring business intelligence is used to drive insightful and impactful conversations about performance, working with BI team to develop robust performance management systems.
• This role is critical in holding to account very senior leaders from Executives and Divisions for performance related issues, using their expert knowledge of operational best practice to provide constructive support and challenge.
• The role has responsibility for maintaining and developing the Trust's accountability framework, with a view to making the Trust's delivery of services to patients as strong as possible.
• This role will play a key role in longer-term trust-wide planning and development of governance and reporting arrangements to ensure delivery of strategic priorities. Contribute to budget setting and overall financial performance.
• This person will lead their team to drive forward the delivery against key operational targets, capacity-related operational and strategic projects as they arise.