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Job overview

We are recruiting a Senior Strategy Manager to join NHS England’s Strategy Team, which sits within the Strategy Directorate.  You would join our team at a critical and exciting time as we continue to support the NHS to tackle some of its biggest complex and important issues.

At the heart of strategic development in the NHS, the team works across directorates to inform strategic decisions and shape policies. The team’s key functions fall into three broad categories:

·      Cross cutting strategy – Holding the central strategy narrative and feeding into wider NHS processes. This includes generating insight into challenges and opportunities, feeding into development of the long and medium term strategy. The team also supports the Chief Executive and the Board in strategic discussions; for example, election and spending review preparations, as well as feeding into NHSE business planning

·       Strategic reviews - Leading or supporting specific strategy projects. Recent examples include a review of the eyecare pathway, co-ordinating national, regional, system and provider stakeholders in the development and drafting of the elective recovery strategy to reduce waiting lists, a review of national Infrastructure

·       Setting and supporting strategy standards across NHS England.

Main duties of the job

Senior Strategy Managers work across a range of projects and all will include:   

·       setting direction for complex, high profile programmes  

·       managing teams, resources and relationships with senior stakeholders  

·       providing support and thought leadership to the strategy team as a whole, supporting team and corporate development activities as a member of the extended leadership team.  

You will have excellent strategic problem-solving skills, the ability to lead analysis and use data and evidence to maximum effect, combined with an excellent knowledge of the health and care sector. If you are excited by the prospect of leading teams in complex environments to solve some of the most significant challenges in the health and care system, we would like to hear from you.     

Working for our organisation

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.