Job summary
We are inviting applications for the Chief Clinical Strategy Officer (CCSO) position at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and innovative clinician to lead the development of strategic partnerships within our community, shaping the future of care pathways and ensuring the best possible services for our local population.
As a senior executive, you will lead the Trust's Strategy, Planning, and Improvement Office, focusing on strategic development, clinical partnerships, and improvement methodologies. You will drive innovation and research to enhance patient care and health outcomes. Additionally, you will work as part of The Foundation Group, collaborating with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital, and South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with our Chief Medical Officer, you will help enhance services by focusing on quality and patient experience. Your leadership will foster a values-driven culture, empowering clinically led transformation. A proven track record of innovative and effective clinical leadership at or near Board level will be key to your success in this role.
We seek a visionary leader who can drive our clinical strategy, working collaboratively across systems to improve health outcomes. You will be motivated by the chance to innovate and empower our colleagues to meet the growing demands of both emergency and planned care. Your role will span professional and organisational boundaries to ensure our population's acute health needs are met, with developments rooted in the highest standards of patient care and clinical excellence.
The ideal candidate will be values-driven, a strong team player, and an inspiring leader capable of driving change and innovation. You will be dedicated to developing the talent of our medical workforce and clinical services to meet the evolving needs of our communities.
For an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Lisa Wilkes (PA to Stephen Collman), lisa.wilkes1@nhs.net.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple: Best services for local people Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients Best use of resources Best people Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
The Chief Clinical Strategy Officer (CCSO) is responsible for the overall development and leadership of the Trust Strategy, Planning and Improvement Office, with executive accountability for the Trust improvement methodology and clinical partnerships across the county, regionally and nationally.
The post holder will lead and facilitate our relationship with partners across Hereford and Worcestershire, The Foundation group and wider. With a focus on research, innovation, and improvement the post holder will influence clinical teams and services to ensure that pathways and outcomes are aligned to the health needs of our population, ensuring that services provide the best value for money and best quality outcomes.
The post holder will contribute to the leadership of a professional, inclusive and values led culture that nurtures improvement and prioritises the best health outcomes for our population.
Key Working Relationships:
The post holder will be an integral part of the Trust Board and Executive team, fostering a particularly strong working relationship with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer to ensure that our collective clinical voice is heard and well represented in external relationships.
Key relationships will include but are not limited to: Commissioners, Public Health, NHS England, Local Higher Education Institutes, Primary Care, Senior clinicians, Managers, and all other staff.
The post holder will collaborate closely with external partners to ensure that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust optimises our role as a lead provider, positively influencing the health outcomes of the local population.
Key Duties:
General Duties:
Contribute to promoting and reinforcing our vision, values and behaviours, ensuring our obligations to patients and stakeholders are understood and met.
Lead our strategic plan to realise the trust vision and mission.
Lead our annual business planning cycle and setting our corporate objectives.
Commit to a collective leadership approach in the delivery of our corporate objectives, never knowingly allowing a colleague to fail.
Lead key quality activities alongside main role objectives.
Ensure robust mitigating actions are in place to manage key strategic risks within the Board Assurance Framework, for which you are nominated Executive Director.
Adhere to the Nolan Principles, promoting the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance in line with best practice and statutory requirements.
Comply with our established health and safety policies. In particular, by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using our risk and incident reporting systems.
Practice at all times in accordance with infection control standards specified in our policies and procedures and with the Health Act 2006 code of practice for the prevention and control of health care associated infections.
To participate in the Executive on call rota.
Responsibilities specific to this post:
Directorate Leadership:
Lead the strategy, planning and improvement teams promoting the highest possible professional standards throughout the directorate.
Set high standards of performance for the organisation and involve all staff in the work of other directorate management teams to deliver the corporate objectives.
Promote multidisciplinary team-working by creating the environment and resources that enable teams to identify real issues and create innovative solutions to problems.
Ensure the training and development needs of team members identified through the annual appraisal process are met.
Utilise the Trust improvement approach in the review and development of systems and processes within the directorate to improve quality and reduce cost.
Ensure there is an effective succession plan within the directorate to maintain continuity of business.
Strategic Leadership
To lead our strategic development, advising on future strategic development opportunities and assist board members with understanding of changes in the NHS and provider landscape.
To lead effective collaborative working with external stakeholders (health and social care), within the integrated care system to ensure coherence in strategic and service improvement planning across the population we serve.
To establish productive strategic relationships with existing and prospective stakeholders, Commissioners, Specialist commissioners, GPs and primary care networks, local authorities, regulators, patients, and representative groups, in order to identify new strategic and improvement opportunities.
To lead the development of highly effective strategic partnerships with tertiary and quaternary provider organisations to ensure the Worcestershire population is well served by specialist services.
Lead with Chief Digital Information Officer and Chief Medical Officer the development of digital services in the Trust aligned to the clinical priorities and opportunities.
To provide strategic and professional advice to the Trust Management Executive on opportunities to gain potential s106 capital contributions, responding and contributing to local development plans and development programmes under consultation by local planning authorities.
To lead specific strategic projects and programmes of work as allocated.
Integrated Partnership Working
As one of the most outward facing executive officers, lead and develop relationships with the local health and social care partners and regulators.
Lead the relationship, supported by the Chief Medical Officer, with the ICB, Primary care liaison forum, LMC and University.
Work closely with system partners to ensure the Trust annual plans align to health priorities and are driven by improvements to clinical pathways, supporting reductions in acute and secondary care demand.
Support the development of research across Hereford and Worcestershire, forging close alliances with university colleagues and partners exploring opportunities for advancing teaching and research.
Clinical Services Strategy
Lead the development and implementation of our Clinical Services Plans, ensuring that they are reviewed within clinical teams and continue to be responsive to business and operational drivers.
Lead the Trust in development of strategies for the ICB, partner organisations and Foundation group.
Work with the Chief Operating Officer to oversee activity and capacity modelling to support business planning processes corporately and locally; working closely with colleagues from clinical teams, operational management and the information and finance departments.
Provide executive leadership to the development of services and associated business case development, prioritising strategic goals and related health outcomes.
Develop constructive partnerships with a wide range of business, academic and third sector partners to establish WAHT at the heart of the county.
Ensure that other important enabling strategies and plans e.g. Estates and Workforce are aligned with and support delivery of the Trust overarching strategy.
Work with the Director of Communications and Engagement to implement a highly effective internal and external stakeholder engagement plan.
Regularly refine and update the Clinical Services Strategy in response to service demand and emerging health priorities.
Planning
Work closely with the Chief Finance Officer to lead the annual business planning process, ensuring it meets required standards and has sufficient opportunity for internal and non-executive scrutiny.
Lead a partnership approach to the development of annual plans, ensuring they are developed with a pragmatic and authentic approach to engagement and are aligned to outcomes.
Work with the Chief Operating Officer to agree the improvement trajectories for any underperforming NHS constitutional standards or service lines.
Use market research, networks and strategic alliances to scan the horizon and forward plan to identify business opportunities arising from national and local policy changes, ensuring that we are in the best possible position to respond.
Evaluate and risk-assess emerging service options in the context of our strategy.
Set and maintain the standard for business case development and approval process.
Programme Management Office (PMO)
Executive responsibility for a transformation focused programme management office that provides the appropriate rigour and assurance around the delivery of Trust change programmes, strategic projects and cost/efficiency improvement plans.
Lead the PMO project management team to ensure their resource is best organised to support Divisional Management Teams.
Optimise the capability within the PMO to analyse Model Hospital and other credible benchmarking, to best identify efficiency improvement opportunities.
Work closely with colleagues across the Executive team to ensure that the PMO office provides priority support to programmes that align with the Trust's strategic priorities.
Business Development
Work with the Chief Finance Officer to develop an effective network and proactive approach to identifying new opportunities. This includes leading responses to formal tendering opportunities and maximising informal opportunities to negotiate additional services or beneficial changes in delivery with commissioners.
Develop and maintain constructive dialogue and networks with current and prospective stakeholders (e.g. local authorities) and work in collaboration with partners in other agencies.
Ensure our processes for business development are robust and responsive. This will include close alignment with the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer to ensure business development opportunities are delivered and aligned with financial plans.
Lead, with the Chief Medical Officer, the innovation to improve service delivery.
*Full Job Description can be found in the Supporting Documents.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application. The full Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section. Qualifications
Essential
Registered Medical Practitioner with a licence to practice with evidence of extensive experience of working in complex health organisations. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see. #J-18808-Ljbffr
We are inviting applications for the Chief Clinical Strategy Officer (CCSO) position at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and innovative clinician to lead the development of strategic partnerships within our community, shaping the future of care pathways and ensuring the best possible services for our local population.
As a senior executive, you will lead the Trust's Strategy, Planning, and Improvement Office, focusing on strategic development, clinical partnerships, and improvement methodologies. You will drive innovation and research to enhance patient care and health outcomes. Additionally, you will work as part of The Foundation Group, collaborating with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital, and South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with our Chief Medical Officer, you will help enhance services by focusing on quality and patient experience. Your leadership will foster a values-driven culture, empowering clinically led transformation. A proven track record of innovative and effective clinical leadership at or near Board level will be key to your success in this role.
We seek a visionary leader who can drive our clinical strategy, working collaboratively across systems to improve health outcomes. You will be motivated by the chance to innovate and empower our colleagues to meet the growing demands of both emergency and planned care. Your role will span professional and organisational boundaries to ensure our population's acute health needs are met, with developments rooted in the highest standards of patient care and clinical excellence.
The ideal candidate will be values-driven, a strong team player, and an inspiring leader capable of driving change and innovation. You will be dedicated to developing the talent of our medical workforce and clinical services to meet the evolving needs of our communities.
For an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Lisa Wilkes (PA to Stephen Collman), lisa.wilkes1@nhs.net.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple: Best services for local people Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients Best use of resources Best people Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose:
The Chief Clinical Strategy Officer (CCSO) is responsible for the overall development and leadership of the Trust Strategy, Planning and Improvement Office, with executive accountability for the Trust improvement methodology and clinical partnerships across the county, regionally and nationally.
The post holder will lead and facilitate our relationship with partners across Hereford and Worcestershire, The Foundation group and wider. With a focus on research, innovation, and improvement the post holder will influence clinical teams and services to ensure that pathways and outcomes are aligned to the health needs of our population, ensuring that services provide the best value for money and best quality outcomes.
The post holder will contribute to the leadership of a professional, inclusive and values led culture that nurtures improvement and prioritises the best health outcomes for our population.
Key Working Relationships:
The post holder will be an integral part of the Trust Board and Executive team, fostering a particularly strong working relationship with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer to ensure that our collective clinical voice is heard and well represented in external relationships.
Key relationships will include but are not limited to: Commissioners, Public Health, NHS England, Local Higher Education Institutes, Primary Care, Senior clinicians, Managers, and all other staff.
The post holder will collaborate closely with external partners to ensure that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust optimises our role as a lead provider, positively influencing the health outcomes of the local population.
Key Duties:
General Duties:
Contribute to promoting and reinforcing our vision, values and behaviours, ensuring our obligations to patients and stakeholders are understood and met.
Lead our strategic plan to realise the trust vision and mission.
Lead our annual business planning cycle and setting our corporate objectives.
Commit to a collective leadership approach in the delivery of our corporate objectives, never knowingly allowing a colleague to fail.
Lead key quality activities alongside main role objectives.
Ensure robust mitigating actions are in place to manage key strategic risks within the Board Assurance Framework, for which you are nominated Executive Director.
Adhere to the Nolan Principles, promoting the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance in line with best practice and statutory requirements.
Comply with our established health and safety policies. In particular, by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using our risk and incident reporting systems.
Practice at all times in accordance with infection control standards specified in our policies and procedures and with the Health Act 2006 code of practice for the prevention and control of health care associated infections.
To participate in the Executive on call rota.
Responsibilities specific to this post:
Directorate Leadership:
Lead the strategy, planning and improvement teams promoting the highest possible professional standards throughout the directorate.
Set high standards of performance for the organisation and involve all staff in the work of other directorate management teams to deliver the corporate objectives.
Promote multidisciplinary team-working by creating the environment and resources that enable teams to identify real issues and create innovative solutions to problems.
Ensure the training and development needs of team members identified through the annual appraisal process are met.
Utilise the Trust improvement approach in the review and development of systems and processes within the directorate to improve quality and reduce cost.
Ensure there is an effective succession plan within the directorate to maintain continuity of business.
Strategic Leadership
To lead our strategic development, advising on future strategic development opportunities and assist board members with understanding of changes in the NHS and provider landscape.
To lead effective collaborative working with external stakeholders (health and social care), within the integrated care system to ensure coherence in strategic and service improvement planning across the population we serve.
To establish productive strategic relationships with existing and prospective stakeholders, Commissioners, Specialist commissioners, GPs and primary care networks, local authorities, regulators, patients, and representative groups, in order to identify new strategic and improvement opportunities.
To lead the development of highly effective strategic partnerships with tertiary and quaternary provider organisations to ensure the Worcestershire population is well served by specialist services.
Lead with Chief Digital Information Officer and Chief Medical Officer the development of digital services in the Trust aligned to the clinical priorities and opportunities.
To provide strategic and professional advice to the Trust Management Executive on opportunities to gain potential s106 capital contributions, responding and contributing to local development plans and development programmes under consultation by local planning authorities.
To lead specific strategic projects and programmes of work as allocated.
Integrated Partnership Working
As one of the most outward facing executive officers, lead and develop relationships with the local health and social care partners and regulators.
Lead the relationship, supported by the Chief Medical Officer, with the ICB, Primary care liaison forum, LMC and University.
Work closely with system partners to ensure the Trust annual plans align to health priorities and are driven by improvements to clinical pathways, supporting reductions in acute and secondary care demand.
Support the development of research across Hereford and Worcestershire, forging close alliances with university colleagues and partners exploring opportunities for advancing teaching and research.
Clinical Services Strategy
Lead the development and implementation of our Clinical Services Plans, ensuring that they are reviewed within clinical teams and continue to be responsive to business and operational drivers.
Lead the Trust in development of strategies for the ICB, partner organisations and Foundation group.
Work with the Chief Operating Officer to oversee activity and capacity modelling to support business planning processes corporately and locally; working closely with colleagues from clinical teams, operational management and the information and finance departments.
Provide executive leadership to the development of services and associated business case development, prioritising strategic goals and related health outcomes.
Develop constructive partnerships with a wide range of business, academic and third sector partners to establish WAHT at the heart of the county.
Ensure that other important enabling strategies and plans e.g. Estates and Workforce are aligned with and support delivery of the Trust overarching strategy.
Work with the Director of Communications and Engagement to implement a highly effective internal and external stakeholder engagement plan.
Regularly refine and update the Clinical Services Strategy in response to service demand and emerging health priorities.
Planning
Work closely with the Chief Finance Officer to lead the annual business planning process, ensuring it meets required standards and has sufficient opportunity for internal and non-executive scrutiny.
Lead a partnership approach to the development of annual plans, ensuring they are developed with a pragmatic and authentic approach to engagement and are aligned to outcomes.
Work with the Chief Operating Officer to agree the improvement trajectories for any underperforming NHS constitutional standards or service lines.
Use market research, networks and strategic alliances to scan the horizon and forward plan to identify business opportunities arising from national and local policy changes, ensuring that we are in the best possible position to respond.
Evaluate and risk-assess emerging service options in the context of our strategy.
Set and maintain the standard for business case development and approval process.
Programme Management Office (PMO)
Executive responsibility for a transformation focused programme management office that provides the appropriate rigour and assurance around the delivery of Trust change programmes, strategic projects and cost/efficiency improvement plans.
Lead the PMO project management team to ensure their resource is best organised to support Divisional Management Teams.
Optimise the capability within the PMO to analyse Model Hospital and other credible benchmarking, to best identify efficiency improvement opportunities.
Work closely with colleagues across the Executive team to ensure that the PMO office provides priority support to programmes that align with the Trust's strategic priorities.
Business Development
Work with the Chief Finance Officer to develop an effective network and proactive approach to identifying new opportunities. This includes leading responses to formal tendering opportunities and maximising informal opportunities to negotiate additional services or beneficial changes in delivery with commissioners.
Develop and maintain constructive dialogue and networks with current and prospective stakeholders (e.g. local authorities) and work in collaboration with partners in other agencies.
Ensure our processes for business development are robust and responsive. This will include close alignment with the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer to ensure business development opportunities are delivered and aligned with financial plans.
Lead, with the Chief Medical Officer, the innovation to improve service delivery.
*Full Job Description can be found in the Supporting Documents.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application. The full Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section. Qualifications
Essential
Registered Medical Practitioner with a licence to practice with evidence of extensive experience of working in complex health organisations. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see. #J-18808-Ljbffr
