Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic and experienced National Programme Manager / Head of Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to join the Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care National Programme.
The Six Goals National Programme has been established to support Health Boards and their partners to transform and improve delivery of Urgent and Emergency Care services to the people in Wales. The Six Goals, co-designed by clinical and professional leads, span the Urgent and Emergency Care pathway and reflect the priorities in the Programme for Government 2021-2026 to provide effective, high quality and sustainable healthcare as close to home as possible, and to improve service access and integration.
Main duties of the job
The National Programme Manager / Head of Portfolio Management Office (PMO) will be a key member of the Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care National Programme Team. As Head of PMO, this post will lead a team of project managers and ensure the National Programme and national transformational workstreams have excellent programme assurance. This will be achieved by ensuring a consistent and high-quality adoption of programme infrastructure and project methodologies, reporting standards, management of project lifecycles, dependencies, outcomes, risk management and benefits realisation.
Working in collaboration with Senior Leaders and Health Boards/Trusts across Wales, this post will be responsible for the successful delivery of specified programmes and workstreams within the Six Goals portfolio. There will be an emphasis on a number of critical enabling projects which currently include the delivery of a number of digital workstreams.
For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
About us
The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction - enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability and experience of leading cross-functional teams
- Experience in leading digital transformation
- Ability to build relationships at all business levels
- Well organised who lives our values of respect, compassion and responsibility
- Proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to work under own initiative
- Understanding of wider NHS and digital and data global trends and opportunities
Skills
Essential
- Possess a full understanding of wider NHS and digital and data global trends and opportunities
- Proven ability to convey technical information in lay terms both written and verbal
- Have excellent written/presentation skills
- Confident in dealing with and resolving scenarios where people's opinion may conflict
- Knowledge of Portfolio, programme and Project Management using an established project management
- High level of technical knowledge of healthcare systems with the ability to quickly understand and apply new technologies
- Excellent technical and organisational skills with the ability to manage complex workloads and multi-task in complex and sensitive Environments
- Be able to provide and receive extraordinarily complex, sensitive information and use persuasion, influencing and negotiation with individuals and groups including stakeholders
- Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the capability to analyse complex and sensitive data/information and recommend conclusions, including ability to respond to unexpected demands.
- Able to meet deadlines in a challenging environment
- Ability to build strong relations with internal and external project stakeholders
- High level of attention to detail and highly organised
- Ability to embrace, lead and drive change.
- Ability to organise, prioritise own workload, direct the work of others, and adjust plans as required both in the short and long term.
- Able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
- Able to lead and direct others to accomplish organisational goals and objectives
- Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or has equitable work based experience
- Recognised professional project management qualification e.g., Managing Successful Programs (MSP), Agile and/or PRINCE 2 or has equitable work-based experience
- Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability and experience of leading cross-functional teams
- Experience in leading digital transformation
- Ability to build relationships at all business levels
- Well organised who lives our values of respect, compassion and responsibility
- Proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to work under own initiative
- Understanding of wider NHS and digital and data global trends and opportunities
Skills
Essential
- Possess a full understanding of wider NHS and digital and data global trends and opportunities
- Proven ability to convey technical information in lay terms both written and verbal
- Have excellent written/presentation skills
- Confident in dealing with and resolving scenarios where people's opinion may conflict
- Knowledge of Portfolio, programme and Project Management using an established project management
- High level of technical knowledge of healthcare systems with the ability to quickly understand and apply new technologies
- Excellent technical and organisational skills with the ability to manage complex workloads and multi-task in complex and sensitive Environments
- Be able to provide and receive extraordinarily complex, sensitive information and use persuasion, influencing and negotiation with individuals and groups including stakeholders
- Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the capability to analyse complex and sensitive data/information and recommend conclusions, including ability to respond to unexpected demands.
- Able to meet deadlines in a challenging environment
- Ability to build strong relations with internal and external project stakeholders
- High level of attention to detail and highly organised
- Ability to embrace, lead and drive change.
- Ability to organise, prioritise own workload, direct the work of others, and adjust plans as required both in the short and long term.
- Able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
- Able to lead and direct others to accomplish organisational goals and objectives
- Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or has equitable work based experience
- Recognised professional project management qualification e.g., Managing Successful Programs (MSP), Agile and/or PRINCE 2 or has equitable work-based experience
- Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
