Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6829409-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Healthcare Planning
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition,Ìýalthough the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
As the Head of Healthcare Planning , you will assist the Transformation Integration Director in the design and build of a team of subject matter experts, which has flexibility and relevance for the life of the programme. Together with the Transformation Integration Director, you will develop a learning culture in the team to enable iterative plan development to enhance the patient environment in the New Hospital Programme.
The post holder will oversee and contribute to a wide range of Healthcare Planning (HCP) activities, with a particular focus on demand and capacity (D&C) planning. This role requires a background in a numerate field, ideally with skills in IT or informatics to support the analytical demands of the position.
The Head of Healthcare Planning will lead Demand and Capacity initiatives with an emphasis on model development, data analytics, and technical capabilities. This includes interpreting utilization rates and modelling needs while balancing a strong understanding of clinical operations and informatics, depending on project requirements.
The post holder will play a key role in the design aspects of healthcare projects, ensuring Healthcare Planning activities integrate with overall project design. Engage in collaborative planning to align clinical and operational needs with design outcomes, enhancing project effectiveness and alignment with healthcare standards.
Main duties of the job
Healthcare Planning Leadership
As the Head of Healthcare Planning, you will oversee a broad spectrum of Healthcare Planning (HCP) activities, with a primary focus on demand and capacity (D&C) planning. Leveraging your expertise in a numerate field, ideally with IT or informatics skills, you will drive the analytical rigor required to support strategic healthcare planning and inform key decision-making processes.
Strategic Design and Development Oversight
In this role, you will lead design integration across healthcare projects, ensuring that all Healthcare Planning activities align with overarching project goals. You will spearhead collaborative planning to meet clinical and operational needs, optimizing design efficiency and compliance with healthcare standards.
Technical and Portfolio Oversight
- Provide strategic leadership across key workstreams within the NHP portfolio, ensuring projects deliver safe, patient-centered, and purpose-fit designs.
- Partner with technical assurance and EFM teams to drive design efficiencies, affordability, and adherence to project briefs.
- Coordinate with internal and external task teams, including contractors, architects, suppliers, and clinical groups, to streamline the design and approval process.
Health Planning Development and Strategic Review
- Evaluate scheme designs and layouts for adherence to best practices, including Hospital 2.0 and relevant international standards
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visitÌýhttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the .Ìý
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • A relevant degree in IT, healthcare informatics, or a related field.
- • Educated to master’s level and equivalent experience of working at a senior operational level in relevant specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience in healthcare planning and analytics, preferably within the NHS or a similar healthcare setting.
- • Experience in infrastructure and major transformation projects
- • Involvement in hospital design and responsibility for operational readiness and or cutover.
- • Extensive knowledge of quality standards including the KLOE and fundamental standards set out by the CQC and how to translate this into practice and patient environment.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Extensive Health Planning knowledge
- • Relationship builder in a complex environment – comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally
- • Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
- • Recognised credible leader who can form and manage high-performance, output-driven teams.
- • Knowledge of healthcare databases and patient activity systems.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shahina Rashid
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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