• Lead the development of the Strategic Plan which encapsulates all the services in scope and future plans for sustaining care within the Integration Authority.
• Responsible for the efficient and effective delivery of Planning, Performance management and Transformation and Change functions.
• Responsible for the establishment of performance management arrangements which inform the strategic plan and underpin the delivery plans of the Partnership’s portfolios.
• The post holder will develop strategic commissioning plans which support the Director who has a lead role for Strategic Planning. As part of the NHS Fife Board planning framework and network, the post holder will lead on the contribution to and delivery of health and social care strategic plans.
• As part of the Senior Leadership Team within Health and Social Care, the post holder will ensure effective co-ordination and optimisation of available resources and technologies.
• Lead the establishment of an effective demand, capacity and queue (DCAQ) framework to underpin service delivery within Health and Social Care.
• In partnership with the Heads of Service the post holder will lead and deliver a portfolio of service transformation that supports improved care and health outcomes, pathways of care and better coordination of services across health and social care.
• Lead co-ordinate and make linkages between service development, capacity and commissioning plans for Fife’s Integrated Health and Social Care arrangements and NHS Fife to ensure delivery of national and local priorities which improve patient care and meet national and local standards and targets and deliver clinical and capacity action plans.The role has responsibility for leading key programmes of change which create efficient use of Fife wide resources to respond to new challenges in health and social care and the main themes of the national quality strategy, national health and social care integration policy and associated local strategies.

• Responsible for Strategic Planning, Performance and Transformation and Change for the HSCP.
• The HSCP Integration Authority provides care to a population of 377,468.
• Health and Social Care is provided through purpose-built integrated care facilities, across the network of Primary Care providers, in people’s own homes and residential settings. The HSCP manages care pathways with Acute Sector Partners in NHS Fife and NHS Tayside.
• The HSCP budget - £683 million
• The Commissioned service budget - £100m
• HSCP workforce – circa 7,000 staff
• The post holder carries management responsibility for approximately 22 FTE staff across management, professional and support roles.

• The post holder is responsible for the development of the Health & Social Care Partnership Strategic Commissioning Plan.
• The post holder works at a Strategic Level within the Health & Social Care Partnership to redesign, plan and coordinate the integration of Health and Social Care Services in line with the Strategic Commissioning Plan.
• Ensuring that the 20:20 Vision and Changing Lives agendas are reflected in developments in commissioning, workforce development and the personalisation of services.
• Work with Scottish Government, Care and Health Inspectorate on the development of National frameworks for strategic planning the development of clinical and care standards.
• Lead for multi-agency service planning, requiring significant leadership skills and sound knowledge of planning processes.
• The post involves working across NHS Board boundaries, ensuring that Strategic plans take into account the impact on the plans in other Health & Social Care Partnerships.
• The post has operational responsibility for a number of teams within the service to deliver the Planning, Performance and Transformational Change functions required.
• As part of a Fife wide approach to Strategic Planning, lead on the development of Strategic Plans for Care at Home, and Intermediate Care.
• Working as part of the Senior Leadership Team to develop a strategy to manage the following key risks for each division: -
  • Ensuring delivery of local and national outcomes through a strategic commissioning approach.
  • Focussing on the health of the population and preventative approaches and ensuring this is incorporated in service and corporate plans.
  • Ensuring the responsibilities surrounding adult support and protection are met.
  • Achieving employee and community influence, engagement and ownership.
  • Promoting, delivering and integrating the Health & Social Care Partnerships key objectives; specifically in relation to the Community Plan, Shared Commitments, Single Outcome Agreement and Best Value.
  • Ensuring that services meet the assessed need of the individual and communities within the resources available.
• Ensuring that all appropriate clinical and care governance standards are built into the planning and performance framework of the Partnership.
• Lead arrangements for promoting and valuing the diversity of staff and people and communities served by the Partnership to ensure equality of access and treatment in employment and service delivery.
• Lead arrangements for the strategic plans for community capacity building within the Partnership, as part of the approach to develop good foundations for Health.
• Providing effective leadership, actively modelling desired behaviours ensuring the efficient management of resources, workforce planning, capacity building, harnessing technologies which demonstrate transparent Best Value.
• Setting, monitoring and ensuring compliance with quality and performance standards.  Pursuing continuous improvement and best value, the effective management and monitoring of budgets to ensure it discharges its statutory obligations and duties, taking action to assess and manage major risks.
• Coordinate the Health & Social Care Partnership plans in response to the implications of legislation and government policy relevant to the performance of managed functions.
• Establish a culture of customer/patient/client focus, quality and performance delivery to demonstrate a record of achievement across managed functions.
• Managing the allocated budgets for the functions ensuring there is appropriate financial monitoring information, budgetary control, risk management and business continuity planning to enable the Partnership to comply with requirements.
• Providing advice to the Director and Senior Leadership Team of the Health & Social Care Partnership, Boards and Committees of Fife Council and NHS Fife, on all aspects of the role and its functions.

To manage all of the Health and Social Care Services, in the Integration Authority:

• Providing integrated health and social care services that are planned and delivered seamlessly from the perspective of the patient, service user or carer.
• The systems for managing services should actively support such seamlessness and achieve strong local accountability through involvement of the community, people who use services, family carers and community organisations.
• This will be underpinned by a new approach to Strategic Planning which brings together all the activities involved in assessing and forecasting need and links investment to all agreed desired outcomes. The plans will consider options, the range and quality of future services.

• Provide operational and strategic management and leadership in respect of Strategic Planning, Performance and Transformational Change services on behalf of the Health & Social Care Partnership.
• Establish comprehensive and effective performance management arrangements for the Health & Social Care Partnership.
• Work with analysts, planners and Heads of Service to determine best options for the shape of future services.
• Ensure that people living in our communities are fully involved in the planning of services to ensure that the Strategic Plan is co- produced.
• Responsible for development and implementation of a range of policies and service developments for the Health and Social Care Partnership.
• Establish an effective team to ensure a transformational approach to planning and service design, and the effective overview and on-going review of the Strategic Planning Group.
• Manage services within required legislative, policy and performance frameworks, with particular reference to the NHS and Health & Social Care Partnership Standing Orders and Financial Regulations, taking appropriate corrective action as appropriate.
• Ensure that the Codes of Conduct, accountability and principles of Clinical, Corporate and Staff Governance are promoted and delivered to ensure required standards are met.
• As part of the Senior Leadership Team, ensure that the corporate image of the Health & Social Care Partnership is positive, using internal and external communications and effective public relations.
• Ensure that resources within the partnership are allocated in accordance with the Strategic Plan and working in conjunction with the Chief Finance Officer, ensure that expenditure is managed within the financial standards of both the NHS and Health & Social Care Partnership.
• Establish and implement risk management that will ensure a proactive and co-ordinated approach to both clinical and non-clinical risks.

• Reporting to the Director of Health & Social Care Partnership, and as part of the Fife wide Planning Framework, the post has an extensive level of autonomy to deliver Planning functions.  This includes strategic leadership for coordinating the development of the Strategic Plan.
• The post holder has significant authority to determine how objectives will be met and is required to use a high degree of initiative in problem solving, anticipating changing needs with a view to re-defining priorities.
• Review of performance is undertaken through the Health & Social Care Partnership’s Performance Management systems that includes individual performance review and achievement against organisational objectives.

• The post holder will have key relationships with members of the Integration Joint Board, Fife Council, NHS Fife, Local Councillors and other elected representatives, as well as Independent and Voluntary sectors, other Health & Social Care Partnerships, the Scottish Government and other stakeholders.
• Communications on a daily basis (meetings, presentations, 1:1, telephone, fax, email or written correspondence) on a wide range of complex topics requiring tact, diplomacy, assertiveness, persuasion, negotiation and influencing skills to resolve complex problems and agree acceptable ways forward.
• The postholder will be a highly skilled communicator comfortable preparing and presenting reports to the Integrated Joint Board, Committees and Management teams. They will also be required to participate in public meetings, communicating complex plans or changes to existing services which may not be well received and could present a challenging or hostile environment.

• The development of a complex Strategic Plan which must contain a robust evidence-based Commissioning component.
• Making an impact on health and social inequalities within the local population whilst engaging in a complex community planning process and engagement with a variety of agencies and organisations.
• As part of the Senior Leadership Team, manage the expectations of the public in a context of increased complex need and demographic pressures within a constrained financial context.
• Ensure the voice of service user / patient is heard through the planning of services.
• Influencing and securing agreement from a wide range of colleagues across health, local authority and voluntary sectors when priorities and governance/accountability structures are different and cultural and behavioural issues are complex.
• Driving forward change that needs the alignment of people, structures, systems and processes to secure targets/objectives/outcomes.
• Dealing with complex staff and resource issues associated with service and system change and development.

• Academic achievement to at least degree level with further professional/academic qualifications.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• A significant record of achievement in senior management post(s) with evidence of managing change at a senior level in complex environment(s)/organisation(s). This track record will demonstrate high level strategic planning and management of performance.
• The skills and experience to lead both Strategic Planning and Performance will be fundamental to the success of the post.

In line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2003, the Partnership requires you to declare all convictions defined as ‘unspent’ in terms of the Act as the post is classified as an ‘excepted post’.

Prior to any offer of appointment, the Partnership or one of the partners acting on the Partnership’s behalf will undertake either a Standard or Enhanced Disclosure check.

This post is politically restricted in accordance with the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. Accordingly, in accepting this appointment, you will be disqualified from becoming or remaining a member of a local authority, the Scottish Parliament, the European Parliament or from undertaking certain political activities as defined in regulations introduced from time to time by the Secretary of State for Scotland.  A copy of Fife Council’s Policy on Politically Restricted Posts will be made available to the post holder.

The recruitment, selection, performance management and personal development processes are underpinned and managed within a competency framework of knowledge, skills and behaviours.

The job holder will be expected to evidence knowledge, skills and behaviours as described within the NHS Competency Framework and Council Behaviour Framework.

The duties and responsibilities contained within this Job Profile should be regarded as neither exclusive nor exhaustive as the job holder may be required to undertake other reasonably determined duties commensurate with the level and grade of the post without changing the general character and nature of the post.

The Job Profile may be subject to revision, depending on the future needs of the post and the organisation, following appropriate consultation.

Essential

• Extensive experience in senior management and senior leadership posts within a large, complex and publicly accountable organisation.
• Experience of translating strategic intentions into commissioning plans.
• Evidence of leading by example and personally displaying engaging and adaptive leadership behaviours.
• Proven track record of leading teams. This will include the management of a variety of specialist personnel in different teams or departments.
• Considerable senior management experience in planning and delivering professional health or social care services.
• Evidence of the development and implementation of innovative policy development to shape services and promote change.
• Evidence of leadership behaviours outlined in the National Leadership framework
• Clear appreciation and understanding of the dimensions of the post both in the public and political arena.
• Evidence of building and maintaining positive relationships, collaborative and partnership working.
• Evidence of striving for improvements and better outcomes while managing risk and business continuity.
• Track record of commitment to improving communication and harnessing technology to achieve goals.
• Delivery of objectives through robust programme and project management.
• Significant experience of managing a broad health or social care portfolio, preferably within the NHS or Public Sector.

Desirable

• Experience of representing the organisation at senior level both internally and externally.
• Record of success in managing large, complex services.
• Evidence of experience base in performance management
• Record of success in translating corporate and operational strategies into effective service delivery and best practice to required standards.

Assessment

• Application
• Psychometric Assessment
• Presentation
• Interview

Essential

• Relevant degree or equivalent
• Portfolio of evidence demonstrating significant experience, knowledge and skills of operating at a strategic level to successfully fulfil the requirements of this role.
• Evidence to demonstrate ongoing personal and professional development.

Desirable

• Management qualification or training.
• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience (Desirable)

Assessment

• Application
• Certificates

Essential

• Proven experience of planning and developing services with strong customer/patient/client focus
• Ability to engender a positive performance culture
• Evidence of effective management of resources and risk to meet Best Value and strategic plans
• Evidence of analytical skills with regard to service change and improvement.

Desirable

• Evidence of establishing a positive performance culture.
• Evidence data management experience, or of research and development experience.

Assessment

• Application
• Psychometric Assessment
• Presentation
• Interview

Essential

• Persuasive communicator enabling others to see the whole picture and to perform to the highest possible standards
• Highly skilled negotiator able to optimise partnership and collaborative working to deliver the best outcomes
• High standard of personal and professional integrity

Desirable

• Skilled in dealing with the media and press releases professionally and sensitively.

Assessment

• Psychometric Assessment
• Presentation
• Interview

Essential

• Must be prepared to work flexibly

Whole-time Service

Chief Officers will be expected to devote their whole-time service to the work of the Council and shall not engage in any other business or take up any other appointment without the express consent of the Council.

Canvassing

Canvassing of members or officials, directly or indirectly, will be a disqualification for consideration for appointment.

Restrictions on Political Activity

This post is designated as politically restricted within the terms of Section 2 of the Local Government & Housing Act 1989.

The Local Government Officers’ (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990 provide that your terms and conditions of employment be deemed to incorporate additional provisions set out in the Schedule to the Regulations. Copies are available from the Chief Legal Officer, Legal Services, Fife House, North Street, Glenrothes.

References to “the appointee” in the Schedule apply to you, and you are subject to the restrictions in parts I and II. Part III only applies to political assistants.

The principal effects of the restrictions are:

1. If you wish to stand for election as an MP, European MP, MSP or Local Authority Councillor, you must resign from this post before your intention becomes public knowledge.
2. You may not act as an election agent or sub-agent while holding the post.
3. If you are a member of a political party, you must not hold any office or be a committee member if this would involve representing the party or local branch, or engaging in its general management.
4. You may not canvass for any candidate or political party.
5. You may not speak in public, give an interview or publish any written or artistic work which supports or opposes a particular political party or the point of view identifiable as the view of a particular political party (applies to all political parties within the European Community). However, this does not prevent you displaying an election poster or similar document, nor shall it prevent you carrying out the proper duties of your post.