PERSON SPECIFICATION CONTINUED
Skills & Ability Essential • Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and authority to deliver advanced relationship management across multiple stakeholders • Strong people management skills, able to motivate and inspire clinical and non-clinical colleagues to enable them to deliver their best. • Ability to successfully analyse complex issues and situations, provide logical decisions, and reconcile competing interests, providing practical and creative solutions to problems through collaborative working to promote corporate vision • Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands, including an evidenced approach to robust programme management skills • A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority and robust performance management • Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships through transformation • Proven experience of highly effective written and verbal communication at the highest levels, including public speaking and preparation of complex written reports. • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills to very senior audiences, conferences and events • Evidence of outstanding inter-personal skills, with a demonstrable ability to engage positively with individuals from junior to very senior levels and to deliver solutions in conflict situations • Exceptionally high level of political awareness and sensitivity, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stakeholders, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests • Ability to understand both operational detail and wider strategic environment and to articulate these to others. This needs to include the ability to make clear rational decisions and exercise independent judgement • Ability to cope with ambiguity, perform and direct others whilst delivering through uncertainty • Resilience to effectively manage workloads despite frequent interruptions and
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