Head Of Sustainability

Job summary Are you passionate about creating a greener, healthier future?
Hampshire Hospitals are seeking a visionary and dynamic Head of Sustainability to lead our efforts in driving the NHS's commitment to environmental, social, and financial sustainability.
This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible difference in reducing the NHS's carbon footprint while improving the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff, and community.
About you To succeed in this role, you will have: Proven experience in leading sustainability initiatives, preferably in a large, complex organisation.
A strong understanding of environmental legislation, carbon reduction strategies, and sustainable healthcare principles.
Excellent project management, analytical, and communication skills.
A collaborative approach with the ability to influence and inspire stakeholders at all levels.
A degree in a relevant field (, environmental science, sustainability, engineering) and, ideally, a recognised sustainability qualification (, IEMA, CEnv).
Main duties of the job As theHead of Sustainabilityyou will: Build and maintain a high profile for HHFT, providing leadership, development and delivery of the NHSE/I mandated Green Plan.
Provide Board assurance of HHFT's sustainability performance against all regulatory requirements, and published Green Plan.
Act as the lead specialist on sustainability within the Trust.
Lead the sustainability workstream for the new hospital programme, Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services, including identifying innovative practices and projects from national and international exemplars Ensure Executive leads and their service managers are supported to incorporate sustainability into everyday practice and processes, providing training and tools they require and to monitor their performance against this goal.
Assist the Chief Strategy & Population Health Officer with Planning, delivery and evaluation of strategic projects to deliver population and planetary health benefits.
Develop and implement HHFT Green Plan and develop any further strategies and plans to ensure achievement of 'Net Zero' targets and social and environmental objectives in line with these plans, national targets and regulatory requirements, and exploit opportunities to accelerate delivery timelines beyond national ambition.
Assist the Chief Strategy & Population Health Officer with Planning, delivery and evaluation of strategic projects to deliver population and planetary health benefits.
About us Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient.
Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally.
We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year.
As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors.
The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services.
To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor .
Job description Job responsibilities For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification Training and Qualifications Essential Educated to masters level (or equivalent qualification in a related field Sustainability) or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area Desirable Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject area Experience and Knowledge Essential Experience of working on multiple strategic projects.
Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Have a good understanding of national policy regarding sustainability and the Greener NHS agenda.
Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda.
Desirable Delivery of climate change related projects in a health or care setting Sound understanding of the Climate change agenda and the impact on the NHS and health of our populations Awareness of Climate change links to other health and care sectors.
Sound understanding of the potential for changes to the NHS to positively impact on carbon reduction.
Skills and Ability Essential Ability to spot innovative opportunities and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to develop into new projects.
Ability to accelerate the development, evaluation and deployment of innovation in a range of healthcare settings.
Ability to undertake research and benchmarking work to identify areas of best practice nationally and internationally in order to ensure continuous improvement and innovation in sustainable healthcare.
Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences.
Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success.
Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
Values and Behviours Essential Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity.
Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values Other Essential Able to travel across various sites where applicable