Job Description

Your World Healthcare is a leading specialist healthcare recruitment agency, placing a range of healthcare professionals including Non-Clinical and Clinical positions.

Programme Manager

Location: St Ives, Cambridgeshire

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Until end of December 2023 and maybe longer

Proposed start date: ASAP

Sector: Healthcare

Working environment: Head Office will be the base and meetings at the Hospitals.

Band: 8A

Pay Rates:

\xc2\xa323.00 - \xc2\xa326.00 paye per hour

\xc2\xa325.00 - \xc2\xa329.50 paye inclusive of holiday per hour

\xc2\xa329.00 - \xc2\xa333.50 umbrella per hour

Working Days and Hours: Full time or 4 days a week minimum

Remote working option Info: Hybrid working and flexible options would be considered

Travelling for work purposes: You may be required to travel to services across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk.

Job Summary

To lead the creation of programme blueprints, planning of programmes and allocation of resources required across all projects.

To ensure that programmes and associated projects have robust governance arrangements in place with effective processes to identify and track programme benefits, track progress against milestones, risks and issues and interdependencies are identified and managed appropriately and the overall integrity and coherence of each programme is maintained.

Job Purpose:

• To lead the creation of programme blueprints, planning of programmes and allocation of resources required across all projects.
• To ensure that programmes and associated projects have robust governance arrangements in place with effective processes to identify and track programme benefits, track progress against milestones, risks and issues and interdependencies are identified and managed appropriately and the overall integrity and coherence of each programme is maintained.
• To ensure the Trust\xe2\x80\x99s continuous quality improvement methodology is consistently used across all programmes and projects. Enabling the appropriate and timely deployment of Trust corporate resources (informatics, finance, procurement, communications, clinical systems, human resources, organisational and business development) to the relevant work streams.
• To develop programme stakeholder engagement and communications plans and co-ordinate all the communication activities for programmes, including working with the communications team to update and brief staff and other key stakeholders from across the organisation, promoting success and achievements.
• To develop effective reporting mechanisms and reporting processes across the programmes and projects that will include reporting to the senior boards and forums.
• To develop and work on long term strategic plans and initiatives that will support building the Trust\xe2\x80\x99s capability for continuous improvement, including providing service improvement/project consultancy, training, coaching and supporting Trust service managers.
• To provide direction and supervision to other members of the team aligned to the programmes.
• To lead and project manage identified projects as required and to provide project/service improvement consultancy and coaching to service project leads, using continuous improvement methodologies, tools and techniques (e.g. productivity improvement, LEAN, statistical process control)
• To set, or as project consultant, support the setting of clear, deliverable and phased outcomes for projects and their work streams and where required manage their development and delivery to agreed timescales, including responsibility for budgets and quality standards.
• To produce, or as project consultant, support the production of project documentation for each area of work; identify and incorporate key critical success factors and performance indicators, timescales, benefits and risk mitigation plans.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, and Skills

• Educated to master\xe2\x80\x99s degree level or able to demonstrate management experience to this level.
• Evidence of continuing professional development/education and learning
• Evidence of management development.
• Programme / Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2, Agile, MSP)
• Experience of successfully delivering large scale and complex programmes
• Experience of using process re-design tools such as Six Sigma, Kaizen and Lean to interrogate end to end processes.
• Experience of building, maintaining and utilising successful relationships with staff at all levels in the organisation
• Experience of partnership working across organisational boundaries ensuring involvement of key stakeholders.
• Programme and Project Management
• Working knowledge of QI methodologies and application of tools and techniques including data analysis.
• Business process analysis and improvement
• Can demonstrate flexibility of approach when working with complex issues and challenging circumstances.

Questions

Do you have Programme Manager experience working in the NHS or Healthcare Sector?

Do you have experience of successfully delivering large scale and complex programmes?

Do you have Programme / Project Management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, Agile, MSP?

Do you have experience of using process re-design tools such as Six Sigma, Kaizen and Lean to interrogate end to end processes?

Do you have working knowledge of QI methodologies and application of tools and techniques including data analysis?

We are an equal opportunities employer

To discuss this opportunity in more detail, contact Craig on the Non-Clinical Recruitment team at Your World Healthcare on 0203 751 5838

Your World Healthcare