Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Bachelor's degree level of relevant healthcare setting or equivalent level in experience and further training. Experience of working within and/or with multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable

• Health Economics
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Healthcare Innovation & Transformation

Knowledge

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of and experience with the national NHS benefits approach including HM Treasury's Green Book, the five-case model and the "Better Business Cases" framework
• Able to take personal responsibility for operational objectives and learn and develop from success and failure.

Training and Experience

Essential

• Experience of evidencing benefits realisation of health and care initiatives and undertaking health economic modelling, specifically costbenefit analysis.
• Experience of working on understanding and documenting healthcare pathways including analysis of impact. Experience of systems that harness new technology and innovations.
• Experience of supporting the production of Business Cases with recommendations and costings.
• Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA), return on investment (ROI) and evaluation.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Some experience of using data and conducting analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings, including experience of using analytical software and managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and interpret national strategies and policies to influence local practice. Evidence of advance analytic and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage a complex workload under pressure to deliver outcomes to fixed deadlines.
• Advance keyboard skills and requirement for accuracy is very high. Inaccuracy in complex projects such as these will lead to poor use of resources and impact.
• The post holder must be an excellent listener and a clear and consistent communicator. Energetic and determined with a positive 'can do' sense of confidence and high degree of personal integrity and emotional selfawareness. Independent, flexible and entrepreneurial thinker, capable of working with ambiguity, results focused and resilient in the face of resistance.
• Works on own initiative, work is managed rather than supervision, within clearly defined policies/procedures. Complies with the Trust Information Governance requirements.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Bachelor's degree level of relevant healthcare setting or equivalent level in experience and further training. Experience of working within and/or with multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable

• Health Economics
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Healthcare Innovation & Transformation

Knowledge

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of and experience with the national NHS benefits approach including HM Treasury's Green Book, the five-case model and the "Better Business Cases" framework
• Able to take personal responsibility for operational objectives and learn and develop from success and failure.

Training and Experience

Essential

• Experience of evidencing benefits realisation of health and care initiatives and undertaking health economic modelling, specifically costbenefit analysis.
• Experience of working on understanding and documenting healthcare pathways including analysis of impact. Experience of systems that harness new technology and innovations.
• Experience of supporting the production of Business Cases with recommendations and costings.
• Experience of applying techniques from specialist analytical disciplines in healthcare settings such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA), return on investment (ROI) and evaluation.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Some experience of using data and conducting analysis and an ability to apply this to healthcare settings, including experience of using analytical software and managing the communication of the results of complex analysis.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and interpret national strategies and policies to influence local practice. Evidence of advance analytic and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage a complex workload under pressure to deliver outcomes to fixed deadlines.
• Advance keyboard skills and requirement for accuracy is very high. Inaccuracy in complex projects such as these will lead to poor use of resources and impact.
• The post holder must be an excellent listener and a clear and consistent communicator. Energetic and determined with a positive 'can do' sense of confidence and high degree of personal integrity and emotional selfawareness. Independent, flexible and entrepreneurial thinker, capable of working with ambiguity, results focused and resilient in the face of resistance.
• Works on own initiative, work is managed rather than supervision, within clearly defined policies/procedures. Complies with the Trust Information Governance requirements.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Citylabs 1

Nelson Street

Manchester

M13 9NQ

Employer's website

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)