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Strategic Planning Advisor (Ref: 142321)
£46,244 - £53,789 (Band 7)
Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Fixed-term/Secondment until March 2024
Edinburgh or Glasgow – hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future
Do you enjoy planning outside of traditional boundaries, working with others on how health and care may look in the future? Are you driven by curiosity, and confident in employing a range of approaches to help others to connect the dots and plan for a future health and care landscape that isn’t about ‘more of the same’?
If supporting a programme of transformational redesign in health and social care excites you, then this is the opportunity for you.
An opportunity has arisen to join the Transformational Redesign Unit (TRU), which forms part of the Improvement Hub (ihub) within Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The ihub supports Health and Social Care Partnerships with complex, system-wide change in order to improve outcomes for the people of Scotland. The Strategic Planning Portfolio (within TRU) aims to take a person-centred, collaborative approach to better understand and align population need with available resources across all sectors of health and social care.
Responsibilities in this role will include:
- support the delivery of a complex, long-term programme of work across health and social care organisations.
- assist health and social care organisations to understand complex systems and interfaces between them and how potential changes can best be co-designed.
- support the implementation of new ways of working in health and social care organisations and across the health and social care sector, facilitating workshops with leadership teams, senior managers, and frontline staff for co-design and collaboration.
- apply existing frameworks, strategic planning approaches, methodologies and tools (e.g. interconnected systems mapping, good practice frameworks) to deliver effective strategic planning support and advice.
Candidates are required to be educated to degree level, or to demonstrate relevant experience of supporting strategic planning in health and social care. The ideal candidate will have skills and experience in strategic planning, change management or organisational development - preferably within health, social care or other similarly complex systems. You will have an engaging and authentic leadership style, strong interpersonal skills and ability to challenge and work collaboratively with a range of partners.
This position is for a Strategic Planning Advisor who will be working in our Mental Health and Substance Use programme as well as supporting other mental health programmes as appropriate. The aim of our Mental Health and Substance Use programme is to redesign the way we support mental health and substance use in a more integrated way. The post holder will bring Strategic Planning expertise to improvement of our response to mental health and substance use within wider strategic planning for health and social care.
For further information about the role, please contact Clare Hammond, Senior Strategic Planning Advisor on clare.hammond@nhs.scot.
Closing Date: Thursday 20 April 2023 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in person on 3 May 2023