Director of Planning and Partnerships

The Director of Planning and Partnerships is responsible for leading the Health Boards complex planning function, including the development of strategic plans to meet the UHBs objectives and the continuing transformation of services delivered in a large and complex organisation and where effective collaboration with partners is essential to the delivery of the UHBs vision. As a member of the Board, the Director will hold corporate responsibility jointly with other Board members for the strategic direction, corporate policymaking and development and delivery of UHB objectives and plans, including plans to achieve financial and service sustainability The Director will play a key role in leading the development and implementation of a series of aligned programmes and plans that will realise the Health Boards vision and strategic objectives in a timely way in order to achieve improved health and healthcare for the populations served. The Director will provide strategic planning advice to the Board and will also provide expert advice in key areas such as emergency preparedness, partnership and collaborative planning and delivery and service and capital planning. Crucially the role will translate the strategy into the Health Boards Integrated Medium Term Plan (IMTP) and will develop detailed operational plans within this overarching 3-year plan to demonstrate granular delivery of improvement across the UHB on performance delivery, quality improvement and financial sustainability. The post holder will take a lead in designing and implementing strong, effective programmes for ensuring delivery of the Health Boards strategy and three year plans, and enable effective performance and programme management to ensure service transformation remains on track. Looking at a timeframe of 1-5 years, the Director of Planning and Strategy will ensure that the UHB takes account of internal and external strategic opportunities to accelerate the pace of change required to transform services, achieved through building partnerships with neighbouring and partner health boards, local authorities, third sector and University partners, and by making best use of our assets to enable the delivery of our vision. The post holder will have a key responsibility for establishing and sustaining relationships with partners, particularly local government and the third sector in relation to the acceleration of integrated health and social care, ensuring that the Regional Partnership Board is driving forward a programme of service improvement and development, bringing services closer together in the community based around the needs of citizens and communities. The Director of Planning and Partnerships will be the lead director for commissioning an extensive range of services, including collaborative commissioning as part of the Joint Commissioning Committee arrangements, joint commissioning with neighbouring health boards and with local authorities. The Director of Planning and Partnerships will also be the Executive Director with responsibility for ensuring service and capital planning is aligned and that there is a long term capital programme to support the continuous improvement and transformation of services. Key responsibilities will be to: Be the Health Board lead for the development of its three-year plan, which will include detailed operation plans with key milestone delivery and benefits realisation integral to its construct, ensuring the alignment of service, financial and workforce planning, including a process for prioritising delivery actions within the plan With the Chief Operating Officer, ensure detailed annual deliver plans are in place across all key service areas which include key milestones and measures for the year, which will form part of the detailed plan submission to Welsh Government as part of the annual planning cycle. Lead and develop the planning system and processes across the Health Board and planning partnerships, building planning capacity and capability across service groups and embedding a planning culture to ensure alignment of all strategic and operation plans to the 3 year integrated plan and the Health Boards long term goals. Lead collaborative and partnership planning for specialised and tertiary services which are provided for the population of South West Wales, South Wales and South West England this includes highly specialised mental health services, cardiac and thoracic service, specialist HPB services and the South Wales and South West England Burns and Plastics service. The Director will take a lead role in the Regional Specialist and Tertiary Services Partnership with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, and the regional partnership with Hywel Dda University Health Board. Create the clarity, coherence and realism necessary for the development of services which improve health and well-being and reduce health inequities and inequalities; are of a demonstrably high standard in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, safety, timeliness and the patient experience; secure the maximum benefit from resources; and are sustainable over the long term. Promote rigorous analysis of needs, and a careful search for appropriate responses that are innovative in their design and implementation, and are not constrained by traditional boundaries to ensure that strategic service change plans are evidence-based or test new innovative models that are evaluated to assess impact. Promote continuous evaluation of existing services and development of alternatives that offer greater benefits as part of the ongoing review and develop of service improvement plans, working closely with the Chief Operating Officer. Align organisational plans to the strategic direction of the Welsh Government, in accordance with the NHS Wales strategic vision, Together for Health and the developing planning framework. Support and promote joint working with partners and other agencies. Ensure timely, high quality advice on strategic planning, service developments, capital investments and estates strategy are made available to the Board. Coordinate a coherent revenue, capital, and workforce plan to deliver the objectives of the organisation within available resources. The postholder will be the lead for capital, estates and health and safety. Be the designated executive, accountable to the Board, with responsibility for Estates within the Health Board. Accountable to the Board for Health and Safety (including fire safety), ensuring appropriate Board level review, including risk assessments and planning of remedial action as necessary and ensuring the organisation meets its statutory duties in that regard. Ensure robust performance monitoring and reporting to transparently reflect the delivery of the plan and the extant requirements of any Welsh Government escalation level alongside Ministerial Priorities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents .

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