Deputy Director – Companies and Commercial Projects, DHSC


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Details

Reference number

325387

Salary

£75,000
External candidates should expect their salary upon appointment to be circa £75,000. Existing Civil Servants on promotion will be appointed in line with the Civil Service pay rules in place on the date of their appointment.
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Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DHSC – Group Operations

Type of role

Finance
Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

London or Leeds. Occasional travel between DHSC locations and NHS Trusts will be required for this role.

Job summary

Within the Capital Directorate we’ve got a wonderful mix of teams. We manage the Department’s c.£12 billion portfolio of capital investments; we set the long-term strategic direction for the NHS estate; we lead the Department’s major projects, capital delivery and investment committee functions; and we lead the Department’s work on counter fraud.

As the Deputy Director for Companies and Commercial Projects, you will also be at the heart of the Department’s work to improve health and social care outcomes with responsibility for leading our support for, and assurance of, some of our most complex financial and commercial matters.

Job description

You will have responsibility for leading our support for companies that are vital to the delivery of health and social care across the country, as well as advising on crucial financial and commercial matters that are often both sensitive and complex. As such, this role is at the heart of the Department’s work to improve health and social care outcomes.

Key Responsibilities 

  1. Co-leading a team of c.15 people in a way that is inclusive, inspiring and tailored to a team based in locations across the country. Leadership is joint with another deputy director who has a commercial law background, with each of you having your own set portfolio.
  2. Leading specialist support to the Department-owned companies – including NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships – to successfully deliver against their performance targets and budgets, resolve issues that arise (e.g. commercial disputes) and contribute positively to the wider strategic objectives and systems they operate within.
  3. Advising on complex commercial projects, such as reviewing the PPE contracts signed during the Covid-19 response and advising on the sale of a publicly owned site for wider Life Sciences sector re-generation.
  4. Contributing to the running of the overall Directorate and wider Finance Group, as a key member of the senior leadership team and through the way you engage with staff on a day to day basis.

Person specification

It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following

Essential criteria:

  • Outstanding leadership skills, with the ability to articulate an inspiring vision, and engage and motivate people to deliver in line with business objectives.
  • Proven ability to lead a team working at pace, managing multiple priorities and deadlines, in a way that protects an inclusive culture and your core values. Linked to this is an ability to work effectively in a complex and high-pressure environment.
  • Ability to lead and communicate with colleagues from non-technical backgrounds.
  • Experience of advising senior leaders or ministers on highly complex financial and/or commercial issues, with high quality communication skills and sound political judgement.
  • Ability to deliver through highly effective working relationships with key stakeholders in both central Government (e.g. the Cabinet Office) and executive level stakeholders outside Whitehall.

Qualifications

A relevant financial qualification or experience in finance, commercial finance or company management is essential, but we do not expect you to have experience across all of these areas.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department of Health and Social Care contributes
£2,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Department and wider Civil Service. It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing. As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service values and supports all its employees.

We have strong and pro-active staff networks, special leave policies for hospital appointments, reasonable adjustments put in place for those who need them, and diversity talent programmes to help everyone irrespective of background, to achieve their potential.

Pension

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package.

A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. Visit Civil Service Pension Scheme for more details.

Generous Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance

25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays.

This will be complimented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.

Staff Wellbeing

Flexible working including part-time or time- term working and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours.

Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.

Childcare benefits (policy for new employees as of 5 April 2018): The government has introduced the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme. Working parents can open an online childcare account and for every £8 they pay in, the government adds £2, up to a maximum of £2000 a year for each child or £4000 for a disabled child. Parents then use the funds to pay for registered childcare. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers, so please check how the policy would work for you here.

Onsite facilities Opportunity to use onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens (where applicable).

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application

To apply for this post please submit the following documents no later than 23:55 on Monday 11th December 2023.

  1. A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
  2. A Statement of Suitability (no more than 1000 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.

Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only has limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. 

As part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the particular characteristics, you will have the option to select ‘prefer not to say’. The information you provide when submitting your application will help us monitor our progress towards the Civil Service becoming the most inclusive employer by 2025.

Please note that we are unable to provide feedback to those candidates who are not shortlisted for interview. Written feedback will be made available (on request) to those candidates who attend interview.

If you are unable to apply online please contact scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Selection Process

A panel chaired by Patrick Carey, Director for Capital & Infrastructure, DHSC will assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit with the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the ‘Person Specification’ section. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.

Patrick will be supported by a selection panel made up of other senior stakeholders for the role, full details of this panel will be shared with shortlisted candidates.

Alongside other departments, DHSC is committed to making the Civil Service more inclusive and recognises the value of diverse interview panels. Helping candidates, particularly those from diverse backgrounds, to feel comfortable and at ease during the interview process, to reduce bias and increase the objectiveness of decisions. In line with the Civil Service’s Inclusive Board initiative we aim to ensure that, as well as being gender diverse, DHSC’s interview panels for Senior Civil Service will include at least one panellist who is from an ethnic minority background and/or who has a physical or non-physical disability (which may not be visible).

Shortlist

You will receive an acknowledgement of your application through the online process.

The panel will select a shortlist of candidates whose applications best demonstrate suitability for the role, by considering the evidence provided against the essential criteria set out in the ‘Person Specification’.

Candidates applying under the Disability Confident Scheme and A Great Place to Work for Veterans Scheme who meet the minimum selection criteria in the job specification are guaranteed an interview.

The timeline later in this pack indicates the date by which decisions are expected to be made, all candidates will be advised of the outcome as soon as possible thereafter, and we will advise on any delays.

Shortlisted candidates who attend an interview will also be offered verbal feedback from a member of the interview panel.

Assessment

If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to take part in a series of assessments which will include a staff engagement exercise. These assessments will not result in a pass or fail decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panel’s decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview.

Discussion with the Vacancy Holder  

Shortlisted candidates will have the opportunity to speak to the current incumbent prior to the final interview. This is an informal discussion to allow candidates to learn more about the role, and is not part of the assessment process.

Interview

You will be asked to attend a panel interview in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification. As part of this you will be asked to give a 5 minute presentation at the beginning (with details on the topic being provided prior to interview) and be asked a series of questions at interview around the essential criteria earlier in this pack and the following behaviours:

Behaviours: 

  1. Seeing the Big Picture
  2. Making Effective Decisions
  3. Leadership
  4. Communication and Influencing

Interviews will take place in person at 39 Victoria Street, London, full details of the interview format will be provided to shortlisted candidates prior to interview.

Feedback

Due to the anticipated volume of applications to this role, we are unable to offer feedback to those not selected for the shortlist.

Shortlisted candidates who attend an interview will be offered verbal feedback from a member of the interview panel.

A reserve list will be held for up to 12 months, which we may use to fill future suitable vacancies for candidates who are considered appointable following interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration
is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them
to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through
building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above.
This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions.
Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and
conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your
personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any
absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you
to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : SCS Recruitment Team
  • Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ. www.civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk info@csc.gov.uk

Attachments

325387 Deputy Director – Companies and Commercial Projects, DHSC Candidate Information Pack – Final Opens in new window (pdf, 589kB)
325387 Deputy Director – Companies and Commercial Projects, DHSC Accessible Pack Opens in new window (docx, 159kB)

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