[ref. c34368424] Senior Manager | NHS England
The Greener NHS function, launched in 2020, is responsible for supporting the system’s world-leading commitment to deliver a net zero health service by 2045.
This is a senior managerial role within the Greener NHS team, designed for an individual with the capability and interest in driving and delivering a rapid transition to low-carbon healthcare across the system.
As a Senior Manager, the post holder will work flexibly in different parts of the team on a variety of portfolios. This could be with our regional colleagues on all priority areas within the greener function, on a specific project within our travel and transport or estates and facilities work or leading a strategic priority with our external partners.You will ensure alignment with NHS net zero commitments and other key NHS priorities set out in the NHS Long-Term Plan.
The team is seeking a highly organised and capable individual with leadership experience. The ideal candidate should be able to build collaborative relationships, manage complex programmes and projects with multiple interdependencies and stakeholders.
Joining a skilled, passionate, and friendly team, the post holder will work across different areas to ensure that our shared objectives are achieved.
This role would suit someone with a background of working in healthcare and climate change.
The Senior Manager will be involved in driving forward specific Greener NHS projects in a variety of different specialist areas, including but not exclusively, travel and transport, estates and facilities, regional delivery, international alliances and strategic levers. This could include:- Delivering projects using policy development, analysis and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Leading the delivery of agreed Greener NHS projects, including management of interdependencies within NHS England, and with other key stakeholders as required.
- Ownership of specific project workstreams, seeing them through from start to end including problem-definition; multi-factorial analysis; options development and selection; and delivery of an agreed project plan.
- Building productive and respectful relationships with other team members, other teams and Directorates and with external partners and stakeholders.
- Developing and managing communications content and channels with a broad range of colleagues related to Greener NHS projects.
- Facilitating group engagement to solve problems and build buy-in to solutions.
- Helping to manage and mentor more junior members of the team.
- Horizon scanning for the identification of net zero trends and innovations in health and healthcare, converting these into project proposals for the Greener NHS Programme where appropriate.
- Working flexibly across the Greener NHS portfolio in support of the wider team.
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher.You can find more information on theGovernment website.
As a Senior Manager in the Greener NHS programme, the post holder will work as part of the dynamic and evolving Greener NHS team. The essence of this role is to design, develop and deliver policy interventions and associated delivery plans to secure meaningful carbon reductions across a specific portfolio of healthcare workstreams.
This is an extremely exciting time to join the team. Following the publication of theNHS Long Term Plan, and commitment to become the world’s first carbon net zero national health system, the Greener NHS programme has responsibility to implement the commitments relating to climate change in a way that improves health and care delivery.The NHS is leading the way globally in this field, which means we need to be innovative in developing strategies and wide-ranging plans for carbon and waste reduction.
Experience of strategic and operational programme delivery in healthcare is essential for this role. The postholder must also have a high degree of personal resilience and have experience of managing a quickly changing sets of priorities.
The role will entail collaborating closely with senior stakeholders across NHS England and partner organisations
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Oct 2024