Transformation Director - L&SC Provider Collaborative inPreston inPreston PUBLISHED WED 27 NOV 2024

We are seeking to recruit a Transformation Director for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a forward-thinking provider collaborative dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes through increased collaboration across the Northwest region.

We are seeking a candidate who demonstrates:

• Proven Leadership: Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams across multiple organisations.
• Strategic Insight: Strong programme management capabilities to manage complex and large-scale initiatives.
• Influence and Collaboration: Superior interpersonal and influencing skills to work seamlessly with partner Trusts and system-wide stakeholders.
• Transformational Capability: A robust track record of delivering substantial improvements in healthcare services and patient outcomes.

This role presents a unique opportunity to join an advanced Provider Collaborative committed to healthcare excellence. If you possess the leadership acumen, strategic vision, and collaborative spirit required for this role, we invite you to apply and contribute to the future of healthcare in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

If you wish to have an informal conversation with the Managing Director please contact Meg Fraser (details below). Please apply by submitting a covering letter detailing your motivation to apply for this role and how you meet the criteria along with your CV to:

Meg Fraser, Business Support Officer /

The Transformation Director will be instrumental in supporting the delivery of large-scale transformation, particularly with the clinical reset programme, with and through the Provider Collaborative team and broader partners across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The role demands strong leadership, exceptional programme management skills, and the ability to influence and work across various partner Trusts and system partners. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing the clinical reset infrastructure, governance arrangements and administrative support, including the operation of an effective programme management function.

• Working alongside the Provider Trusts and ICB colleagues to ensure the PCB workstreams and cross-partner programmes are delivering effectively.

• Intelligence gathering, analysis and formulation of materials, including joint policy development, tactical planning and strategic development.

• Working across a wide and diverse stakeholder group to build commitment to a shared vision for the Provider Collaborative and aligned areas of focus and ensuring the contribution of the Provider Collaborative within ICB plans for Lancashire and South Cumbria.

• Work with key stakeholders to establish and evolve mechanisms to support the development and delivery of the clinical blueprint. Using skills of diplomacy, tact and performance management to foster collaboration and enhanced system working.

About us

Working with the Managing Director for PCB, the Transformation Director is responsible for leading the Provider Collaboratives Clinical Portfolios to deliver the following:

Change Management and Delivery

• Develop and drive the delivery of key programmes of change and improvement, in partnership with clinical teams to deliver patient benefit and financial sustainability.
• Work with the System Planning Lead on oversight of the operational planning cycle across the Provider Collaborative, ensuring key linkages between changes to leadership arrangements to financial ,workforce and activity are in place; closely aligning to the NHS Long Term Plan.
• Responsible for ensuring the plans of the Clinical Portfolios align to NHSE strategic aims, and have actions in place to deliver the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes sought; and that complexity / uncertainty is understood and mitigated.
• Proactively support the working relationships between the Trusts at CEO, Executive and Professional Lead level; providing fair and transparent brokerage focused on achieving the outcomes agreed.

Strategy and Planning

• Lead the development and implementation of clinical strategic plans for the clinical portfolios, aligning national, regional and ICB strategic aims with the Provider Collaborative context facilitating engagement at all levels.
• Ensure the workplans from the Portfolios are understood by all stakeholders and are delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.

Leadership and Management

• Be an influential leader across the Provider Collaborative and wider system to support collaboration that will improve outcomes for the local population and beyond.
• Provide visible leadership that models exemplary behaviours of personal integrity and inspires and empowers staff to deliver on the Provider Collaborative strategy and objectives.
• Work with the Managing Director, CEOs and members of the Executive Teams to build on successes to date and further develop the required structures and processes in order to deliver on Provider Collaborative priorities.
• Work with the wider system to ensure that the Provider Collaborative continuously develops in order to remain fully effective in the context of a changing NHS and wider health care environment.
• Support a culture which promotes collaboration, inclusion, openness, accountability, and equality of opportunity at all levels.
• Lead and develop the clinical portfolios teams in developing and achieving the Provider Collaborative strategic vision and objectives.

Governance and Compliance

• Work closely with leadership teams and clinical leads to ensure strong delivery in the realisation of anticipated benefits, smooth and prompt identification of issues and resolution/escalation to oversight board and identification of common themes or issues across the Provider Collaborative.
• Ensure that the clinical portfolios implement and operates a robust governance structure which is designed to both sustain shared business operations and shape and develop new opportunities.
• Work closely with clinicians and executive teams across the five providers, to ensure that workstreams are agreed, and to drive delivery.

Partnership working and Stakeholder Management

• Lead development of effective working relationship across the Collaborative and wider system to enable collaborative working across organisational boundaries.
• Foster collaboration, leveraging the expertise of partner organisations and wider stakeholder groups.
• Work with system stakeholders to ensure the Trusts priorities are reflective of system priorities and to ensure an effective contribution to system plans in collaboration with commissioners and partner providers.
• Develop strong working relationships with wider system partners to develop the integration and collaboration of services.
• In collaboration with the Provider communications team, ensure internal and external stakeholders are involved in the development of plans and are well briefed on change programmes.

If you wish to have an informal conversation with the Managing Director please contact Meg Fraser (details below). Please apply by submitting a covering letter detailing your motivation to apply for this role and also a covering letter showing how you meet the criteria along with your CV to:

Meg Fraser, Business Support Officer or