Strategy Development Officer

Company: North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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Location: North East
Job Description:

UHT has developed its first group strategy underpinned by clinical transformation proposals together with proposals to transform our corporate services.

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This is an exciting role in which the post holder will play a central part in supporting the further development and implementation of the generational transformation envisaged by the UHT strategy.

The role is fundamental to ensuring the group embeds the principles of continuous improvement into the strategy by responding to new developments externally and internally and providing analysis to support decisions and communications.

The post holder will work across the UHT group, and its two statutory organisations and across a wide range of specialties including working with very senior corporate and clinical staff.

Key Supporting Activities

  1. The provision of strategic insight and analysis for the further development of the strategy
  2. The delivery of detailed and challenging engagement with internal and external partners.

The post will be hosted by North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of UHT.

Responsibility for Planning Development

  • Organises own day to day work and exercises a high level of autonomy and self-motivation while planning work around key project dates and deadlines.
  • Ensures that development meetings are arranged at appropriate intervals and at times that take into account the other responsibilities of the clinical board members.
  • Ensures that appropriate reports are circulated prior to meetings, and that minutes and action points are produced. Ensures that the group has the required agendas, information and decision options to effectively govern the project and that other relevant stakeholders are appropriately briefed about progress and issues relating to the project.
  • Responsible for challenging the senior clinical and corporate leaders appropriately, and in a timely manner, where decisions are being made which contradict the agreed plans/ output specifications of the project.
  • Identifies potential interdependency issues either within or outside the project board and uses negotiation and planning skills to resolve these, or escalates them to the triumvirate/ programme manager.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, we want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. xwzovoh

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Becky Shea Job title: Strategy Programme Manager Email address: Telephone number:

Posted: April 1st, 2026