Help with interview presentation

[WhatWouldHopperDo]

Can anyone help me - my brain has gummed up! I have an interview next week for an internal position in a different department to mine but with links to my current role. (I work in health care strategy).

I have got to give a presentation on how I would use a set budget to provide support services for a specific part of the population with a specific need. It says present on what you would do from the money being allocated to implementation of the service.

The thing is, what I would actually do is go out to consultation with advocacy groups and experts by experience and proceed according to what they felt the need was. In this case, should I pick a project and just present that? I need to make it clear that consultation and coproduction are key but how can I do that if I just come up with one idea and show how I would implement it?

It's the allocation to implementation bit that has thrown me. I have got 2 good ideas (I think) for possible services.

Am I over thinking? Sorry if this isn't clear - I've been off MN for a while, I wasn't really expecting to get an interview and I have talked myself into thinking I can't do it!!

I'm not in healthcare strategy myself, I work in HR but sounds like you're along the right lines with your consultation/co-production thoughts to me, from the sounds of the question it sounds more as though they want you to show you understand the process rather than simply having good ideas - how long have you got to present? It probably needs to go something along the lines of:

-Step 1: money allocated - understand the who/what/when/where/why - how much money, to do what (what are the aims/success criteria), what is the problem we are trying to solve or what are we trying to achieve? What are the timescales, is this a specific capital/one-off investment or an ongoing increase to operating costs? How will you understand the specific needs of the specific group? How will you prioritize if not all needs can be met within budget? What other factors/priorities might come in (and you can show here you are aware of current fashionable ideas like digital transformation, sustainability, equality and inclusion?)? How and by when will return on investment need to be measured?

Step 2: generate options, ideas - informed by what data/information? Is it purely down to you to think of ideas and options or will you open it up to stakeholders? (Here's where you can include your existing ideas but also show how you will go about gaining more)

Step 3: go out to consultation - how, with who?

Step 4: decision making - it's one thing to say you'd let the stakeholders decide but presumably there are usually conflicting views or competing priorities. Would it then purely be your decision as to how to spend the money or would you have to take it through some kind of governance route? is a business case required (show you know how to build one?)?

Step 4: implementation - show you understand what has to happen to implement service changes, are there implications on budget management/workforce planning, will you have to implement staff training or community engagement, is procurement required and do you understand the regs for that and so on...

Yes I think they want to see you have an understanding of the process and the general considerations rather than coming up with a specific idea re the service.

In terms of setting out the presentation, look up the pyramid principle.

Are you doing a slide deck for your presentation? The points above and your explanation of the process would look good in a timeline

Ah thanks for your replies - that has helped me clarify things. Laying out the steps of a project rather than an actual project is how I think I will do it with some subject and area specific detail.