Job Description

A new opportunity has opened for a talented individual to join the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Transformation Team as a Programme Manager.



If you are looking for an opportunity to use your project and improvement experience to really make a difference to the care and services we provide to our local population in Essex, then we would love to hear from you.



We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, individual who has a passion for improvement and change management, are able to build strong relationships and be able to enthuse staff at all levels to participate in change. You will also act as a champion and promote the use of improvement science across the organisation as a way of improving the safety and quality of the services we deliver.



Working on specific projects and programmes; sometimes alone or with other members of the Improvement team dependant on complexity. You will work with teams throughout the lifecycle of projects/programmes to ensure that there are clears aims, key metrics identified and measured, adequate benefits tracking and realisation in place.



Be key in ensuring that detailed implementation plans are in place and managed, risks identified and mitigated and that business cases are completed, where required. It is also crucial that the postholder is used to using and analysing complex datasets to inform decision making on ideas such as service model design and sustainable staffing models as well as identifying the root causes to the problems being addressed.



You will have the opportunity to work across services and teams including digital services, procurement, clinical and non-clinical staff, senior managers, suppliers, other trusts and the Mid and South Essex system.



The Trust has three acute hospital sites in the Essex locality (Basildon, Broomfield and Southend), and the postholder will be expected to work flexibly across all three sites, however, you will have a main base in which to undertake your normal duties.



Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.



We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.



From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.



We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.



Are you looking for an exciting Programme Manager Transformation Team role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.



For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.



We look forward to your application.