Job Description

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The opportunity

The Overview

Are you passionate about driving innovation in healthcare? Are you passionate about patient safety? Do you thrive in complex, collaborative environments? We're looking for Programme Managers to join our dynamic team - either via secondment, fixed term for 12 months or in a permanent employed capacity.

We're currently looking for passionate and experienced Programme Managers to join our team. We have roles available offering the chance to work across a variety of impactful missions that make a real difference.

In addition, we are seeking a programme manager with a special interest in patient safety to work as part of our patient safety collaborative. This position is available as either a secondment or a fixed-term contract, ideal for someone looking to take on a focused, meaningful challenge.

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to work that truly matters, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Role

As a Programme Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact programmes across our diverse portfolio.

Portfolios range from supporting the rollout of the nationally significant initiatives and cutting-edge programmes that find, test, and implement innovations in health and care across our missions, including cancer, mental health, and long term conditions.

For the secondment / fixed term role your focus will be on the National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes delivered by the Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC)specifically Martha's Rule and Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth (ABC).

You'll work closely with clinical leads, system partners, and national networks to support the delivery of our mission-based and Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) programmes. Your work will directly contribute to improving outcomes and spreading innovative practice across the health and care system.

Working in collaboration with regional partners and Health Innovation Networks across England, our work transforms lives through innovation.

All our work is grounded in the context of our region - supporting our partners to identify and spread innovation that tackles the shared challenges we face improving health across a complex mix of rural, coastal and urban communities.

The challenges facing the NHS will not be addressed by doing more of the same. They will only be met by widespread adoption of innovation including digital and diagnostic technology, and data to transform clinical pathways and empower patients.

In this, our twelfth year of operation, we have launched ambitious plans to address the key problems facing people across our peninsula.

This coincides with the relicensing of Health Innovation Networks last year for a further five years by NHS England. Never has it been a more important time for innovation in health and care.

We believe that we have a unique offer for someone who is passionate about driving the uptake of health innovation and economic growth, enabling patients to benefit from earlier diagnosis, more effective treatments, and faster recovery.

We have an ambitious board, a chief executive with a clear vision, and a team that is highly committed to putting the South West on the map in rural and coastal health. And we are based in a really great place to live and work.

If you would like to join our impact-led, improvement-focused and collaborative organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Role profile:

Key success factors

Track record in managing programmes and delivering results in complex stakeholder environments.

Proven ability to build and maintain partnerships to generate mutual benefit.

Flexible and adaptable, comfortable with change and working in uncertain environments.

An accomplished communicator with the ability to influence others to problem solve, make decisions and overcome challenges.

Responsibilities

Build deep knowledge, local networks and strong relationships within a defined area of the regional health and care system and/or discrete portfolio of projects.

Establish strong internal relationships that draw on expertise from across the programmes team and wider organisation to support the delivery of our programme aims.

Develop our methodologies to spread innovative practice.

Provide regular, accurate and detailed reporting on programme performance.

Work with our communications and engagement function to engage partners in our programmes, communicate the impact of our work and raise our profile at a regional and national level.

Work with our evaluation and learning function to define and measure the impact of our programmes.

Work with our partnerships function to identify and develop new partnership opportunities to grow our work.

Work with external contractors, associates and other clinical advisors to deliver programme aims as required.

Build strong relationships with other Health Innovation Networks and contribute to the success of the national Health Innovation Network.

Support the implementation of national policy and local clinical guidelines.

Act as a link between clinical teams and senior leaders across the healthcare system.

Support the implementation of clinical audits and quality improvement projects aligned to the programme.

Contribute to development a sharing of clinical good practice linked to the national patient safety strategy.

Demonstrate the values of the organisation in all your work as impact led, improvement focused and collaborative.

Additionally for the PSC secondment / fixed term position:

Support regional coordination and delivery of the ABC and Martha's rule programmes

Work collaboratively with Trust teams, system partners and wider national Clinical Faculty to deliver impactful outcomes across the peninsula

Support additional Health Innovation South West Patient Safety Collaborative workstreams where appropriate.

Person specification:

Experience we are looking for

Knowledge of change methodologies such as Quality Improvement (QI) frameworks, Lean or Six Sigma, and project and programme management frameworks such as PRINCE2 or Agile.

Working in or with the health and life sciences sectors - from a customer, supplier or intermediary perspective.

Experience in managing a pipeline of projects - assessing ideas for relevance and validity to identify high-value opportunities.

A track record of influencing stakeholders to change their perspectives.

Experience leading the delivery of projects and programmes.

Additionally for the PSC secondment / fixed term position:

Familiarity with national patient safety programmes

Experience of facilitating regional communities of practice and coaching clinical teams.

Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role

A good working knowledge of the health and care system, NHS commissioning and procurement.

Experience designing and delivering complex multi stakeholder social innovation projects/programmes.

Abilities and attributes

Critical thinker - creative, curious and unafraid of complexity.

Adaptable - able to appraise and re-prioritise tasks quickly and calmly.

Effective stakeholder manager - able to earn and maintain the trust of internal and external stakeholders at all levels and inspire through a shared purpose.

Effective communicator and presenter - able to engage a wide range of audiences by being compelling, credible and inspiring.

Reporting to:

Programme Director

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 32,193.39-77,437.31 per year

Expected hours: 22.5 - 37.5 per week

Benefits:

Bereavement leave Casual dress Company events Company pension Cycle to work scheme Discounted or free food Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Free flu jabs Free parking Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking Paid volunteer time Referral programme Sabbatical Sick pay Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Devon EX2 5FD

Application deadline: 11/08/2025