Person Specification

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• Educated to degree level or equivalent by experience. We value diverse educational backgrounds and encourage candidates with non-traditional paths to apply
• Substantial knowledge of the Health and Social care sector including the provision of community based services
• Understanding of commissioning within a health and social care environment
• Understanding of recent changes in health and social care policy
• The government, statutory and voluntary sectors in health and social care

•  Higher degree in management or relevant field

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• Ability to develop and communicate a compelling strategic vision of the role and impact of British Red Cross
• Collaborative and able to foster strong and effective alliances and networks to support effective partnerships to benefit the communities we work with
• Developing strategic documents and board-level papers
• Ability to engage with diverse communities and understand the intersection of culture, health, and social care needs

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• Senior leadership experience in health, social care, or community-led support services with operational and strategic oversight
• Experience influencing senior leadership or board-level decision-making in any organisational context
• Managing complex stakeholder requirements
• Liaison and networking at a senior level with external partners
• Strategy and business case development at department level

• Working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Managing teams through change
• Management of significant budgets, financial planning
• Leadership approaches to identify and share good practice

• Creates people in crisis focused strategies and makes strategic decisions with people in crisis in mind
• Acts as a role model for engaging, empowering and acting with integrity towards people in crisis, communities and advocate

Creates and Maintains a Diverse Range of Long Standing, Strategic, Mutually Beneficial Partnerships

• Builds wide-reaching, diverse connections with a shared understanding of needs and goals
• Creates collective commitments to goals across a wide range of different partners
• Helps create joined-up collaborative solutions across partners
• Builds a shared and compelling sense of purpose across a range of partners

Takes Multiple Steps to Communicate and Influence

• Influences others using compelling, well thought through arguments to build support and engagement

Makes/Conducts Complex Plans to Generate Exceptional Results

• Delivers successful solutions to complex situations

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• Uphold the Fundamental Principles and act with integrity, in accordance with the Society’s obligations and values (inclusive, compassionate, courageous, and dynamic)
• Ensure anti-discriminatory practice and promote diversity
• Ability to work and travel in the UK and at times overseas