Chief Delivery Officer (Corporate)

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Employer:
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Norwich
Salary:
VSM (non-voting)
Closing date:
9am Monday 27th January 2025
Job Ref:
GSe112247.1

Recruitment timetable

Closing Date
9am Monday 27th January 2025
Preliminary Interviews (via Teams With GatenbySanderson)
w/c 10th February 2025
Final Selection Process:
Date TBC - w/c 3rd March 2025

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Description

“Improving Together for Mental Health”

 

About us

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) provides mental health and learning disability care for people across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion, delivering many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community.

 

Our Trust has a workforce of over 5,000 hardworking, committed, and dedicated staff, but we have struggled for many years to provide the quality of care that our service users and carers deserve. There is, however, much to be proud of with positive signs of improvement. Our CQC rating improved in the most recent inspection report published in February 2023, moving from Inadequate to Requires Improvement and a rating of Good for Caring overall. We are at an early stage in our improvement and transformation journey and whilst this is an indication we are able to change and improve our services, we still have much more to do. The creation of our five locality groups is a key step towards transforming the way in which we work and provide care to those who need us.

 

We believe in ‘working together for better mental health’. We’re working closely with health and care partners and voluntary sector organisations to transform mental health care to ensure the people of Norfolk and Suffolk get help and support in the right place for them, when they need it, to stay mentally and emotionally well.

 

The Opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join us as our Chief Delivery Officer. This is a newly created role, reporting to the Chief Executive and is a pivotal and crucial member of our executive team. You will ensure the Trust's corporate functions, including governance, planning and communications operate smoothly and effectively and you will be entrusted with a broad spectrum of strategic oversight and leadership responsibilities to ensure that Trust’s corporate affairs are undertaken to the highest standards of probity and according to statutory and legislative requirements.   You will provide key support to the Chief Executive in the development and delivery of our Well Led Programme and will lead our Freedom to Speak Up Programme.

 

To be successful in this role you will need to build strong relationships with the Chief Executive, Executive Directors, Chair and Non-Executive Directors to provide advice and guidance on a wide range of issues. You will also need to build relationships across our partners in the two ICS’s we work within so that as an organisation we can focus on delivering high quality services that are cost effective across the whole systems.  

 

We are looking for a leader who is experienced at working at, or close to, Board with broad experience across corporate services including; governance, planning, programme delivery and communications. As a key member of the Trust Board, you will be expected to role model our values and take shared accountability for the delivery of our work across performance, quality, workforce, finance and implementation of regional and national priorities.

 

We know that there is much to do at NSFT and we are looking for someone who is genuinely enthused by our transformation agenda wants to be part of our improvement journey. Your experience might come from the NHS, or other parts of the public sector, but you will understand being a leader in a large and complex, highly regulated people facing organisation. Crucially, you will be as passionate as we are about improving how we deliver mental health and learning disability services and will strive to achieve the very best outcomes for our service users, carers, communities and workforce.

 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We know that the best Boards are those that reflect the communities they serve, and therefore we would particularly welcome applications from those who are under-represented at Board level in the NHS.

 

For more information, please visit our recruitment microsite: https://join-nsft.co.uk/.

 

For a confidential discussion please contact:

Steven Levin, Researcher

T +44 (0) 758 670 2578

E: steven.levin@gatenbysanderson.com

 

Julia St Clare, Senior Consultant and Research Lead

E: julia.stclare@gatenbysanderson.com 

T: +44 (0) 7807 631 564

 

Melanie Shearer, Partner

E: melanie.shearer@gatenbysanderson.com

T: +44 (0) 7785 616 548

 

 

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