Reason for Secondment/Loan: To lead on the planning, implementation and co-ordination of the Scottish Government's Framework for Chronic Pain Management.

Applications are invited from: NHS / Health and Social Care Partnership employees, people employed within the independent sector

Main Duties

This is a great opportunity to work on the implementation and co-ordination of Scotland’s first Framework for Pain Management that aims to drive improvement in the care, treatment and support available to people living with chronic pain, and their carers. You will join during the draft Framework public consultation and therefore have the chance to review consultation responses/ contribute to refining the final Framework.

This is a challenging time in the health system, as it continues to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but with it comes the exciting prospect of re-designing services to improve person-centred outcomes. To ensure successful delivery of the commitments set out in the Pain Management Framework, you will:

• Cross government and partners collaboration – build relationships with a wide range of policy, implementation, analytical and clinical colleagues (including within Healthcare Improvement Scotland, NHS 24, Public Health Scotland and the Centre for Sustainable Delivery based at the Golden Jubilee) to lead development and agreement of an implementation plan that sets out clear actions, accountability, metrics and timescales – taking into account activities already underway.
• Drive change – liaise with NHS Boards and Health and Social Care Partnership management to influence the pace and scale of change as part of wider operational and recovery planning and programmes, including addressing health inequalities.
• External stakeholder engagement - work with advisers to involve stakeholders in shaping delivery and reviewing progress including people with lived experience, healthcare professionals and third sector organisations.
• Programme planning and risk management – use change and improvement methodologies to manage and monitor delivery including project resources, to keep activities on track – mitigating against risks and problem solving to address issues.

Key Competencies

Leading others:

• Actively manages environment, making connections across boundaries to build strong networks and partnerships.
• Contributes to and develops clear, creative and detailed policy communication strategies to achieve outcomes.

Communications and Engagement:

• Manages internal and external relationships, creating positive networks and maintaining trust and credibility.

Analysis and Use of Evidence:

• Uses relevant evidence, recognising validity and limitations, in evaluations & assessment of risks against desired outcomes, engaging analytical specialists appropriately.

Improving performance:

• Set targets to improve the value achieved from resources, utilising financial data in business cases for change and monitors outcomes using performance measures.
• Uses relevant tools, techniques and skills development to facilitate continuous improvement.

Essential Criteria

1. Highly developed communication skills with the ability to manage and influence a range of internal and external relationships including at senior levels, promoting collaborative working - building consensus for vision and buy-in for changes/ action, within the context of competing priorities.
2. Proven ability in working well under pressure, expressing clear logical thinking and creative problem solving in the face of challenging opposition by articulating persuasive arguments to overcome issues.
3. A robust working knowledge of the health and social care system in Scotland, its structures and governance and a history of managing complex change programmes to achieve improved outcomes - using experience of programme and project management principles/ improvement methodologies effectively to review and analyse progress and adjust delivery accordingly.
4. Experience in identifying, developing and using a range of outcome measures to assess performance against goals.

Further information about the Organisation:

The role is part of the Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate within the Scottish Government, led by Jason Leitch, the National Clinical Director. The Directorate seeks to achieve the best health and care outcomes for people by ensuring the provision of high quality health and social care services.

The Clinical Priorities Unit within this Directorate has responsibility for policy on national strategies for various health conditions such as Cancer, Long Covid, Diabetes, Stroke, Chronic Pain and many others. The role offers a supportive team environment, which would be beneficial to applicants where it may be their first experience of working on national programmes. Given many of the delivery challenges are similar regardless of condition, our implementation leads work closely together to achieve the best outcomes and share knowledge and experiences. The cross cutting nature of the plans also provide lots of development opportunities to influence and contribute to policy and its delivery across other Government Directorates.

The Clinical Priorities Unit is primarily based in St Andrews House Edinburgh, although home working continues to be our default position and we can accommodate candidates from other locations. We are supportive of flexible working and would encourage applications from those on flexible working patterns.

Would you like to work with a dynamic team and take a lead on care standards and practice development?

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our leadership team. Working with a supportive, capable and friendly multidisciplinary team, this new clinical leadership role reports to our Medical Director and will support us to continue to strengthen and develop our service and organisational impact.

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is delivered across all WDP adult and young person service types.

As part of this clinical role, you will:

• Provide excellent leadership, line management, developmental and practice development support to senior clinical roles (excluding prescribers).
• Lead on clinical modelling and improvement against internal and external clinical standards, including CQC KLOEs and NICE guidelines.
• Focus on supporting high quality, high impact, value for money delivery, leading on specialist skills deployment.
• Oversee qualification monitoring and clinical training, including the development and delivery of clinical training and embedding of trainee, assistant and student roles.
• Lead on clinical quality assurance, risk and safeguarding.
• Work collaboratively with lead clinicians, service leads, and subject matter experts to ensure effective development and performance management of clinical staff and to support skills development across non clinical practitioners.
• Maintain high quality dialogue and public relations with partner agencies and commissioning bodies, supporting the development of effective strategic relationships.
• Be a clinician (nurse, medic) with the associated up-to-date registration in place

There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able to work across our service hubs, as well as occasional travel to our head office in London.

Why should you apply?

• You want to make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged people,
• You want be part of a high-performing team focused on achieving positive outcomes,
• You want to progress your career and increase your own knowledge and skills in a supportive and compassionate environment,
• You want a competitive salary and excellent benefits

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

INSP (International Network of Street Papers) works to alleviate poverty and build a global movement for social change, leading and supporting a network of street paper organisations in 35 countries worldwide.

The Relationship & Fundraising Manager will lead on building relationships, developing and delivering INSP’s fundraising strategy. It is a strategic and operational role, which will be critical to the sustainability and financial health of our organisation.

We are looking for a candidate with drive and creativity who is willing to work with a level of autonomy, and also able to work closely with our passionate and creative staff and board team. The candidate will lead on building a fundraising culture for INSP and will be prepared to work with us to build the systems to manage this.

This is a unique and challenging role in a dynamic organisation. The right candidate will be able to manage multiple moving parts and think strategically across different relationships, opportunities and networks. We are looking for a strategic and energetic individual who shares our commitment and vision to develop the potential from existing relationships, as well as having the ability and experience to harness and maximise the huge potential from our international community.

As an employer committed to diversity and flexible working, we will consider a range of options for the successful candidate, including part time, flexi-time, job sharing, compressed hours and remote working.

Main duties:

Relationship management:

• Identify, develop and maintain relationships with all existing and potential individual donors, including major donors.
• Devise and implement ways to connect and engage companies, individuals and trusts & foundations in the difference they’re making/could make.
• Secure meetings, face to face and virtual engagement with potential corporate partners, individual donors and trusts & foundations.
• Strategically plan events to encourage conversations with potential supporters and organise events so attendees get the best experience and impression of INSP.
• Support the Chief Executive, and other staff and trustees with relationship fundraising approaches, conversations and asks.

Planning and prospecting:

• Create an annual fundraising delivery plan with clear milestones and targets.
• Work with the Chief Executive and other staff to develop and execute INSP’s fundraising strategy and build a robust fundraising culture.
• Develop specific strategies for donor relations and cultivation, corporate sponsorships, events and communications.
• Research connections, network and identify opportunities to form new relationships with major donors, foundations and trusts and companies.
• Implement prospecting processes.

General:

• Develop an understanding of the key aspects of INSP’s work and be able to articulate the vision and impact of the organisation in a clear, passionate and confident way.
• Work with team to ensure that INSP’s external communications and online presence is optimised to encourage donor engagement.
• Act as an ambassador of INSP at public engagements and supporter events, and where necessary, deliver speeches or presentations to a wide range of audiences.

Administrative:

• Use and develop the Salesforce CRM to record, plan and analyse all major donor activity and contacts.
• Provide verbal and written reports as required and update plans where necessary.
• Adhere to the Scottish Fundraising Code of Practice and ensure that all team members are up to date with current practice.
• Ensure all data is processed within the framework of the Data Protection Act (1998) and GDPR.