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Director of Performance and Transformation (and Deputy Chief Executive)
The Balfour
Band 9 £119,319 – £124,418 including Distant Islands Allowance
Full time 37 hours per week
Fixed term for 18 months
Are you a strategic and ambitious transformational leader with a passion for delivering exceptional care and services? NHS Orkney is looking for an excellent visible and compassionate individual to join our Board and help lead us into our exciting future.
NHS Orkney serves the vibrant and close-knit community of Orkney, and we have 800 staff across our community, primary and secondary care services.
We are on an exciting journey of improvement. Our Promise (vision) is: Looking after our community and providing excellent care. Our recently published Corporate Strategy - called “Delivering what matters to our community: 2024-2028" is our compass at NHS Orkney and sets out our priorities.
Recently, we launched our "Team Orkney: Improving Together" programme, a comprehensive organisation-wide improvement programme which brings together improving quality and safety, operational and financial performance and accelerating digitisation under one single programme, aimed at enhancing our care, services, and the overall experience of our patients and staff. As we continue to grow and innovate, we are committed to listening to and acting on feedback, ensuring that we evolve as a learning organisation.
The Role:
As Director of Performance & Transformation (and Deputy Chief Executive), you will be an integral part of our Executive Team, a pivotal member of the Senior Leadership Team and a member of the Board. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will play a pivotal role in leading transformation across NHS Orkney as it enters the next chapter of its exciting improvement journey. This is a fixed-term appointment for 18 months to provide additional executive capacity, and to support the Chief Executive as NHS Orkney continues its ambitious improvement journey.
You will spearhead transformation (including the delivery of NHS Orkney’s Improving Together Programme), and performance management for NHS Orkney, providing a key strategic leadership role to the wider Orkney health and care system working across organisational boundaries to support integrated care and coherence and alignment of plans. You will provide the strategic oversight, vision, and direction to lead multiple change programmes and deliver the Board’s Corporate and Clinical Strategies, Annual Delivery Plan and Orkney-wide strategies.
The Director will provide Executive leadership support to the Chief Executive in their strategic transformation role and as Deputy Chief Executive in the organisation, working in collaboration with the full range of partners and stakeholders in Orkney, across the North of Scotland and NHS Scotland.
About You:
You are an experienced change leader with a proven track record of leading with compassion, ideally at Board level within the public sector. You will bring strong influencing and negotiation skills, and you excel in building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels. You will be a very strong team player, as a member of Team Orkney, who is visible and leads with hope, energy and optimism.
NHS Orkney’s hospital and healthcare facility, The Balfour, opened in 2019 and is transforming the way healthcare is delivered. With inpatient wards, an emergency department, outpatients, diagnostic services, Dentistry, two GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service all under one roof, there are excellent opportunities for close multidisciplinary working to benefit our patients. We are now working towards further investment in our outer island facilities. These developments allow us to drive forward service improvement with confidence.
The total population of Orkney is approximately 22,000 with most people living on the Orkney Mainland. Kirkwall, the capital, with a population of 7,500, is the administrative centre of Orkney with an amazing mix of shops, supermarkets and businesses.
Orkney is truly a great place for a family. The educational system is extensive as it is excellent, from pre-school to postgraduate. We might be a small community, but we are well equipped with exceptional health, well-being and leisure facilities.
With views as far as the eyes can see, stunning beaches and miles-upon-miles of coastline, you’ll always find your own space in Orkney. With this, it is no surprise that Orkney has been voted the best place to live in Scotland for eight years running.
Orkney has several flights a day to Scotland’s largest airports, so you won’t feel isolated here. Very low crime levels and a strong sense of community make Orkney a safe and secure environment for all ages too. And the best bit is there being very little traffic anywhere – your daily commute will be almost non-existent!
To find out more about living and working in Orkney go to www.orkney.com or www.visitorkney.com Further information on NHS Orkney can be found at www.ohb.scot.nhs.uk
For an informal discussion about the post of Director of Performance & Transformation (and Deputy Chief Executive) please contact Laura Skaife-Knight, Chief Executive of NHS Orkney by email laura.skaife-knight@nhs.scot
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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.