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Strategic Planning Advisor (054425)
Band 8A - £49,975 - £53,948
Permanent
Full time (37.5 hours/week)
Edinburgh or Glasgow - with remote 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 leading a programme delivering strategic planning support for 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 the role will include:
• providing practical and technical strategic planning expertise and advice to senior stakeholders
• acting as the delivery lead for a number of medium to long-term, external-facing projects (including scoping, planning, designing, delivering and evaluating).
• direct and indirect engagement with people, families and carers with lived experience and service providers as an essential element of the co-design process to influence the model of service provision.
• developing new approaches, methodologies and tools to deliver effective strategic planning support to a range of external stakeholders within the health and social care system.
You will need extensive skills and experience in strategic planning (preferably in health, social care or related discipline), identifying needs, resource analysis, data interpretation and visualisation, business case development, as well as knowledge of new models of health and social care which deliver quality and best value. You will have an engaging and authentic leadership style, strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with senior leaders.
Candidates are required to be educated to degree level and either hold a master’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent knowledge and experience in using strategic planning to improve services. Experience and knowledge in planning for one or more of integrated health and social care, mental health and substance use services, and of working at a national or regional level, is preferred but not essential.
We support flexible working and welcome applications from candidates who wish to work on a part-time basis.
Further information about the role is available from Stuart Donald, Strategic Planning Portfolio Lead, stuart.donald1@nhs.scot
Closing Date: Thursday 27 May 2021 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held on 10th June 2021 via Microsoft Teams