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Senior Strategic Planning Advisor x 2 (REF: 069886)
£50,965 - £55,016 (Band 8A)
Full time (37.5 hours/week)
1 x Fixed term contract/Secondment to October 2022
1 x Fixed term contract/Secondment to March 2024
Edinburgh or Glasgow - 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.
Two opportunities have 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.
One post will work across a range of programmes, including embedding good practice in strategic planning across the health and care system, while the other will be largely focussed on a programme of work which aims to redesign care pathways to improve quality of care, access to treatment and health outcomes for people with a dual diagnosis of mental ill health and substance use.
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.
Candidates are required to be educated to degree level and either hold a master’s degree in a relevant subject or to demonstrate 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.
The ideal candidates will have extensive skills and experience in strategic planning, change management or organisational development - preferably within health, social care or other similarly complex systems - identifying needs, resource analysis, data interpretation and visualisation, and 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 challenge and work collaboratively with a range of partners.
Further information about either role is available from Stuart Donald, Strategic Planning Portfolio Lead, stuart.donald1@nhs.scot
Closing date: Sunday 10 October 2021 at midnight.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held virtually on MS Teams 2-3 November 2021.