Change Manager

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Change Manager to join Digital and Data Services at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting time for the Trust as we continue to deliver and mature our ambitious digital transformation programme. Over the past four years, we have made significant progress in transforming working practices and patient care through our electronic patient record and wider digital capabilities. We are now focused on building on these foundations, embedding change, realising benefits and supporting further transformation across the organisation.

The post holder will support colleagues in a wide range of roles across a dynamic and complex transformation environment. We are looking for a highly motivated, self-starting and imaginative individual with strong engagement and influencing skills, who can build commitment to complex projects and support the successful delivery of change.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex information in a clear and accessible way, working with clinical, administrative and corporate colleagues at all levels, as well as external partners and stakeholders.

If you are looking to contribute to meaningful digital transformation in one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Job description

The primary objective of the Change Manager role is to lead or support Digital and Data Services transformation projects across the Trust. Change Managers will work closely with project teams to develop, define & shape change, integrating change management and ensure successful delivery and adoption of large-scale change. The Change Manager will have a particular emphasis on: Maximising employee adoption of change. Minimising resistance to change. Promoting a digital culture across the Trust. Engagement of colleagues to shape changes. Establishing a network to communicate changes. The Change Manager will report to the Senior Change Manager and will be responsible for creating and implementing change management plans that maximise employee adoption and minimise resistance in the delivery of numerous work programmes contributing to the Trusts strategic ambitions.Change managers will work with senior managers and staff, establishing effective networks with those impacted by change using motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services through changes to practice. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership oflearning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Key Responsibilities Delivering change - The post holder will be responsible primarily for supporting the Project / Change Leads in large projects or service redesign, managing own smaller projects as directed working alongside members of the Project Team and stakeholders. This includesidentifying improvement opportunities, supporting and leading project teams to develop solutions and manage through to implementation & closure.

The Change Manager will enable others to identify new ways of working, engage teams, develop, maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders and embed learning and behaviours. Change Management Tools and Techniques The post holder must have a good knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools. Lead changemanagement activities and advocate a structured approach to change management. Network and Engagement - Responsible for developing a wide network of contacts to raise awareness of change being undertaken within the Trust, as well as to proactively understand activity outside of Digital Services & identify potential impacts. Develop Plans - Ensure all change initiatives are defined, measured, managed and documented clearly and concisely, using recognised project and change management techniques. This will include leading and developing communications, coaching plans, training plans, resistance management plans. In addition, creation of relevant policies, procedures and Business Cases as appropriate. The change manager will also supportproject teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans. Quality Assurance - Put in place appropriate quality assurance of projects. Following Quality Improvement methodologies with completed quality impact assessments. Working with Stakeholders: You will work closely with senior managers and staff to communicate the trusts approach to Change Management and support employees understanding and reinforcement of behaviours. Work with staff across the Trust to ensure that projects fully meet clinical and operational needs while delivering tangible benefits interms of efficiency, clinical risk and cost. Challenging existing working practices using persuasion and negotiation skills to achieve project outcomes. Lead project teams of different professional groups with their own views and opinions and ensuring consensus is reached in the implementation of new initiatives, resource with skills and knowledge asrequired.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level, has post graduate experience level or with equivalent experience delivering major change programmes.
• Relevant qualification, e.g. ONE of: Change Management Institute ACMF (Accredited Change Manager Foundation); MSP Practitioner; or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Desirable

• Teaching and/ or coaching qualification.
• Prince 2 Foundation level qualification or similar.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change initiatives within a project environment using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Sound analytical and judgement skills. Able to analyse / define complex problems, identify recommendations, and implement solutions by problem solving and / or evaluating new concepts and ideas.
• Experience in stakeholder management and has credibility and impact with peers and leaders; and able to gain buy-in to enable change.
• Experience working within an environment of significant & fast paced change, with demanding timelines.

Desirable

• Experience of coaching others to deliver improvements.
• Understanding of acute patient pathways and service delivery.

About the employer

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.