Transformation Lead inColchester inColchester PUBLISHED 14 NOV 2024

Band 8a: £53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum  FIXED TERM  GOOD SALARY 

Ensure that the urgent and emergency care projects and/or elective care projects are planned and managed effectively and ensure safe and seamless integration with other existing processes and services.

The primary objective of the role is to lead large scale, complex transformation projects across the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust organisation and the wider health and social care system.

This will include designing and delivering projects in accordance with ESNEFT and wider system and alliance strategies in addition to providing direct support to the Senior Transformation Lead, Deputy Head and Heads of Transformation as required.

The role will be predominately based at Colchester, however, with various components requiring work across both Colchester and Ipswich Acute Hospital locations as well as Community Hospital locations.You will:

  • Plan, lead and monitor specific trust urgent and emergency care projects or elective care projects, ensuring delivery of outcomes which are aligned with system-wide and organisational strategies, business plans and programmes of work
  • Ensure that the urgent and emergency care projects and/or elective care projects are planned and managed effectively and ensure safe and seamless integration with other existing processes and services
  • Engage with colleagues across all parts of the Trust and wider system, bringing together expertise, skills and ideas to maximise patient outcomes and ambitions of the urgent and emergency care programme or elective care programme

  • o Responsible for planning and advising on the co-production and implementation of new care pathways to achieve step changes in quality and patient experience. This will include complex audits/surveys of the emerging and current best practice, liaison with service users, monitoring of key commercial developments and close working with stakeholders to prepare the case for change and change management plans
  • To matrix manage project teams of different professional groups, accounting for and considering their views and opinions to ensure consensus is reached to enable the implementation of new initiatives, pathways and processes.
  • Working with staff across the Trust to ensure that projects fully meet clinical and operational needs while delivering tangible benefits in terms of efficiency, clinical risk and cost in line with agreed time and quality requirements
  • Recognise risks and issues which may impact rate of progress to the urgent and emergency care programme and produce a range of options which can be presented to the Project / Transformation Boards to mitigate this

About us


For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

The primary objective of the role is to lead large scale, complex transformation projects across the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust organisation and the wider health and social care system.

This will include designing and delivering projects in accordance with ESNEFT and wider system and alliance strategies in addition to providing direct support to the Senior Transformation Lead, Deputy Head and Heads of Transformation as required.

The role will be predominately based at Colchester, however, with various components requiring work across both Colchester and Ipswich Acute Hospital locations as well as Community Hospital locations.You will:

  • Plan, lead and monitor specific trust urgent and emergency care projects or elective care projects, ensuring delivery of outcomes which are aligned with system-wide and organisational strategies, business plans and programmes of work
  • Ensure that the urgent and emergency care projects and/or elective care projects are planned and managed effectively and ensure safe and seamless integration with other existing processes and services
  • Engage with colleagues across all parts of the Trust and wider system, bringing together expertise, skills and ideas to maximise patient outcomes and ambitions of the urgent and emergency care programme or elective care programme

  • o Responsible for planning and advising on the co-production and implementation of new care pathways to achieve step changes in quality and patient experience. This will include complex audits/surveys of the emerging and current best practice, liaison with service users, monitoring of key commercial developments and close working with stakeholders to prepare the case for change and change management plans
  • To matrix manage project teams of different professional groups, accounting for and considering their views and opinions to ensure consensus is reached to enable the implementation of new initiatives, pathways and processes.
  • Working with staff across the Trust to ensure that projects fully meet clinical and operational needs while delivering tangible benefits in terms of efficiency, clinical risk and cost in line with agreed time and quality requirements
  • Recognise risks and issues which may impact rate of progress to the urgent and emergency care programme and produce a range of options which can be presented to the Project / Transformation Boards to mitigate this

About us


For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.



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