Welcome to
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Dear Applicant
Director of Organisation & People Development
NHS Ayrshire & Arran is committed to improving the health and health care needs of our local population. We provide high quality care in the community, hospitals and specialist services for our population of just under 400,000 people. We also provide services for people with mental ill health and learning disabilities. As a health economy providing the full range of primary care, acute and specialist mental health services, we spend £655 million per annum on meeting the needs of our population and employ 12,000 staff – this includes bank/temporary staff.
Organisationally, we aspire to become a world-class provider of health care and exemplar employer and it is for these reasons we need to recruit an individual driven to help us succeed in this task. Currently, our management goals and organisation structure have been specifically designed to deliver integrated patient pathways. ‘Doing the right thing’ underpins the organisation’s values and practices in making continuous improvements in our relationships with patients, families and carers that we serve. We are developing a Primary Care Strategy with our key stakeholders, implementing our Clinical Improvement Programme and strengthening leadership to tackle the financial challenges ahead. We are embedding a customer-focused and team-working culture where we ‘do with’ and not ‘do to’.
Integral to our drive to become an exemplar employer organisation, we are developing a Health and Wellbeing ‘co-operative’ for our staff. Alongside this, we have reviewed our workforce development plan and have integrated this with our whole service modernisation agenda. A key aspect of the development plan is to ensure that staff have equitable access to appropriate training and development.
Over the next three years we face very challenging organisational goals, which have to be achieved within existing resources and in partnership with internal and external key stakeholders. Improved outcomes, co-production and best value are pre-requisites to partnership working and delivering our goals.
The post of organisation and human resource development role is critical to the achievement of our ambitions. The specialist nature of this function will; challenge our status quo in a constructive way, provide advice on strategic and development directions, draw on best practices from all sectors and facilitate the development of the organisation in a supportive way.
To achieve our ambitions, as Director of Organisation & People Development there are three key aspects to your role:
- As a board member, you will design and lead the organization and people development agenda across the whole health and care system including working with internal and external partners, working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels
- As Director of Organisation & People Development, you will lead the continuing development of world class HR management and organisation development to enable NHS Ayrshire & Arran to deliver its ambitions
- As a Corporate Director, you will participate in the leadership of NHS Ayrshire & Arran to ensure that capability and capacity is being developed which matches organisational requirements for a sustainable future whilst providing assurance to the board that operational performance continuously improves so that we may achieve world class standard
To be successful, you must demonstrate successful track record of “whole organisation” development along with highly effective strategic leadership in shaping the future of your organisation.
In terms of the key qualities and experience expected, you need to provide evidence of driving through insightful organisational performance improvement and change management programmes along with a clear understanding of corporate governance together with the role of an executive director. To be effective in this role you must have gained relevant managerial experience at a senior level – preferably at board or equivalent levels, either within the NHS or other complex multi-professional private, public or voluntary sectors. I am particularly keen on receiving applications from candidates offering experience gained in a variety of settings and sectors – we seek to appoint the best person to this role irrespective of which sector they have worked within.
You must also demonstrate the ability to operate across strategic and operational boundaries to get business done, effectively managing budgets & creatively using your resources. Whether you are from within or outside the public services sectors, you must have empathy with and clear understanding of our vision and values, coupled with a track record of nurturing talent & motivating colleagues to deliver of their best.
Integral to the organisation, you will work with and alongside a wide range of clinical professional people, partners and volunteers. This will require you to use a range of different skills and influencing capabilities to provide the inspirational leadership required both internally and externally.
For the right person, this role will provide excitement, commercial, professional and intellectual challenges along with the opportunity to work across a whole health economy in a role that inspire and drive change for the benefit of our local people. I look forward to reviewing your application.
Yours sincerely
Dr Wai-yin Hatton NHS Ayrshire & Arran Chief Executive
