Management and Strategy
South Central and West (SCW) is a leading provider of transformation and consultancy services across health and social care at a national, regional, and local level. The Transformation team provides high quality, expert support to NHS organisations and partners to manage, analyse and improve performance, to transform the way services are provided for local populations.
Our customers include NHS England, ICSs/ICBs, provider trusts, general practices, and numerous social care, community care, and voluntary sector organisations.
If you are passionate about transforming health and care and have the desire to become part of our team, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us.
The primary aim of the Solutions Architect is to provide technical leadership to solutions architecture projects/assignments for one or more clients, or a single more complex area. The Solutions Architect will build relationships with senior stakeholders, be proactive in identifying opportunities, support multiple architecture projects or programmes and find emerging technologies and approaches.
This role can be delivered in a flexible hybrid way with any travel, site visits or meetings arranged by agreement on a very occasional basis
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where highly developed negotiating and influencing skills are required
- Able to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change with a range of stakeholders
- Able to give formal presentations to large groups of stakeholders using a range of presentation tools
- Able to manage stakeholder expectations and host, or mediate discussions about risk, complexities and programme/project constraints
- Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels. Creatively combining formal and informal communication channels in order to achieve the desired results
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills to support evidence based change including being able to systematically follow, review and analyse data
- An innovative and strategic thinker, able to define and identify required data to support successful implementation of business change activities
- Advanced IT and keyboard skills on a range of systems including e.g., MS Office and other software systems
- Ability to make decisions autonomously on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Able to plan and prioritise own work effectively across a range of complex activities and direct the activities of others, changing plans as required
This role sits within the Transformation Directorate, which has approximately 250 people working across a range of professional disciplines within the transformation and consultancy space. The post holder will be allocated a Career Development Manager to support them pastorally and to support them on their career journey and they will report into an Assignment Manager for each project they are assigned to.
The post holder will play an essential part in the effective delivery of impactful projects and consultancy assignments across health and care. We are an inclusive and diverse team and collaboration is at the heart of how we work. The team has grown rapidly over the last couple of years in response to increasing customer demand and due to the committed and hard-working nature of the team, for which personal development is important.
The post holder will share the ethos and values of SCW and will be able to bring the skills, experience, and subject matter expertise they have developed in their career, to support the team to deliver quality services.
This role will involve travel across the South of England and potentially further afield.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Applicants should be aware that you may not be eligible for skilled worker sponsorship if you apply for this post. If you require sponsorship, please ensure you have checked your eligibility viahttps://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job or alternatively, please contact us via email on scw.peopleresourceinternal@nhs.net to confirm the requirements of sponsorship can be met.