[ref. t00195502] Assistant Director of Performance and Planning
The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
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Job overview
The Assistant Director of Performance and Planning is accountable to the Director of Performance and Planning for ensuring that accurate and timely information, analysis and interpretation is available to support the running of the Trust. The post holder is responsible for a variety of departments, all with very challenging and varying strategic goals.
Working to the Director of Performance and Planning the post-holder will act as a senior leader responsible for data, reporting, contracts information, operational activity planning, clinical coding and validation.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for delivering the Trust wide information and performance reporting solution, ensuring that all care groups and corporate departments adhere to the process. Deliver expert advice and workshops on the Trust performance reporting solution.
Corporate responsibility for delivering the Trusts information and performance systems that enable clinicians, operational and clinical managers and executives interpret Trust performance and enable decision making.
Responsible for the production of Contract activity and income proposals, ensuring that adequate levels of activity are covered in order to meet the Trust’s strategic direction. The post holder will be Trust expert on the NHS contract.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for delivering the Trust wide information and performance reporting solution, ensuring that all care groups and corporate departments adhere to the process. Deliver expert advice and workshops on the Trust performance reporting solution.
Responsible for delivering the performance scorecard system to all care groups monthly, in a timely and accurate manner.
To provide analytical support and resources to care groups in the effective and efficient management of their business.
Be the Trust’s responsible Officer for the compilation, maintenance and treatment of the Secondary Uses Data/Hospital Episode Statistics to NHSE.
Performance Management
Corporate responsibility for delivering the Trusts information and performance systems that enable clinicians, operational and clinical managers and executives interpret Trust performance and enable decision making.
Provide specialist knowledge to operational and clinical managers on performance measures covering, personnel, financial and clinical areas.
Lead on the Trust’s performance management framework, working with clinical directors, general and business managers and external benchmarking sources.
Contracts
Provide technical support to the Finance and Contracts teams in the negotiation of the Trusts contracts with ICBs (including National and Specialist Services Consortia).
Responsible for the production of Contract activity and income proposals, ensuring that adequate levels of activity are covered in order to meet the Trust’s strategic direction. The post holder will be Trust expert on the NHS contract.
Responsible for the distribution of monthly contract monitoring reports to ICBs and other Specialist Commissioners and, working with Care Group leads to respond to issues from ICBs on contract performance.
Person specification
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Essential criteria- • Educated to degree or equivalent
- • Performance management experience
- • NHS management experience
- • PbR/National Tariff knowledge
- • BI technical skills and experience
- • Leadership skills
- • Communication skills
- • NHS data model/standards experience
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