JOB SUMMARY AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Develop an understanding of the local assets, needs, and inequalities, to support the development of Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) strategic plans using the Ambitions Self-Assessment Framework. Provide an innovative, ambitious, and solution-focussed approach to unblocking barriers and leading the transformation of services to meet the individual needs of patients and address inequalities in care provision. Support the strategic direction of new and widened collaborative opportunities to transform and develop sustainable PEoLC services. Support delivery of Integrated Care System (ICS) priorities in line with the national priorities of PEoLC, the vision of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care.

Support the statutory core responsibility of ICB's to ensure that system wide accessible high quality, safe palliative, and end of life care, tailored to the needs of the individual (Health and Care act 2022) is available. The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager; The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation. KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Operating effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engaging with NHS staff, consultants and contractors working on a variety of topics.

Providing strategic leadership and support to statutory and non-statutory organisations in terms of PEoLC across the ICS to enable enhanced coordination of care. Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, presenting information, to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting. Having the ability to deal with resulting potentially aggressive/antagonistic situations. Committed to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.

Nurturing key relationships and maintaining system wide PEoLC networks internally and externally, including regional and national networks. Maintaining key relationships with the Macmillan Transformation National Lead and other ICS Macmillan transformation leads. Close liaison with the Communications and Stakeholder team on public relations and marketing activities. Linking with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.

Applying a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any change. Deputising as required, expanding on knowledge, skills, and experience within personal professional development. Operational Overseeing system Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) members to deliver the requirements listed above and priorities, engaging and liaising with key stakeholders, in particular: - Supporting the strategic direction and delivery of day-to-day PEoLC activities, initiatives, and projects.- Supporting the identification and sharing of best practice.- Operating in a highly political and sensitive environment.- Supporting the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend through tracking, managing, and delivering agreed benefits. Project Management Leading and coordinating the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues, and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.

Pro-actively managing stakeholders, responding to, and resolving conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms. Being responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner. Ensuring the flexibility of the project if required to meet conflicting/ changing requirements. Responsible for the planning and organisation of numerous events/meetings.

Ensuring communication tools are used to their maximum value for circulating the minutes, agenda, and presentations in a timely manner. Demonstrating effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels. Supporting other project managers as and when required. Taking into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and overseeing handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business.

Advocating the projects at senior and executive levels and ensuring active engagement and sponsorship within the NHS and partners. Ensuring that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, are actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of the NHS and partners. Financial and Physical Resources Acting in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities. Budget holder for assigned function/team, budget setting with the Assistant Director.

Being responsible for ensuring adherence to the budget, ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny. Identifying products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy-in as required. Placing orders and signing invoices, keeping mindful of budget limitations. Work with a wide range of stakeholders across the ICS to ensure that any variances to quality, performance and financial metrics are investigated and acted upon to ensure the satisfactory delivery of the programme, escalating any risks and issues as appropriate.

Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings for the Assistant Director, Steering/Reference Groups and others as required. Staff Management Directly managing the team where appropriate and responsible for day-to-day work assigned to the team. Responsible for the recruitment of team staff, chair of recruitment panels and acting as the recruiting officer. Responsible for undertaking appraisal and personal development including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.

Forging close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives. Supporting, motivating and developing staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the responsibilities of the NHS and partners. Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget. Information Management Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports.

Collating as required, qualitative and quantitative information and leading appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project outcomes. Analysing, interpreting and presenting data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making. Policy and Service Development Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines, and service level agreements (SLAs) which may impact the delivery of PEoLC. Proposing changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.

The post holder will need to maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments. This will assist in the thinking and definition of the strategy discussions for the PEoLC programme and stakeholders. Research and Development Planning, developing, and evaluating methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information. Delivering projects to comply with key performance indicators.

Co-ordinating Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate. Planning and Organisation Contributing to the strategic planning of Team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary. Contributing to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes. Contributing to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.