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Visa Sponsorship

This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the contract.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first-class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management, and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for assisting the AACC Senior Leadership Team with leadership, implementation, and management of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing Care.

The role will require travel on occasions; access to transport is therefore necessary, be it personal or public.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area with appropriate regulatory body registration e.g. Nursing Midwifery Council for Registered Nurses, Registered Mental Health or dual Registered RN/RMN/RNLD, Allied Health Professional, Midwife, or Social Workers.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
• Evidence or experience of clinical leadership in a health or complex environment.
• Experience and knowledge of developing and implementing policy including standard operating processes.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices, and procurement.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short-, medium-, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement, and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive, and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helping us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, saving time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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