Job summary
An exciting role has arisen on a two year fixed term contract for an INW Programme Manager located within the newly formed Programme Delivery Team in the Planning and Partnerships Directorate. The post holder will work closely with key stakeholders across each South Notts and Mid. Notts Place Based Partnership and wider ICS to develop positive relationships across organisational boundaries in order to maximise influence and support.
Secondment opportunity for two years would also be considered. Candidates should seek agreement with their employing organisations if applying for a secondment.
Main duties of the job
To create and manage an over-arching Strategic Programme Delivery Plan using standardised reporting methodology and tools across the Trust / ICS / ICB, with responsibility for tracking, monitoring and supporting programme and project leads to deliver.
To provide comprehensive project and programme advice, guidance, information and support to local Programme and Service Transformation/PCN Development Managers and colleagues within both the South and Mid Notts Place Based Partnerships.
To prepare and present project and programme related reports as part of building the Integrated Neighbourhood Working model and Teams which includes documentation on a range of issues relevant to the success of the programme. This will include, working with colleagues in the Community Services Transformation Team / Organisational Development Leads team to support the Local Design Teams, Steering Groups, Financial Management groups, communication and engagement events and workshops in each Place Based Partnership where necessary.
About us
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project and Programme Delivery
- Create and manage an INW/T Strategic Programme Delivery Plan.
- Undertake regular project and programme plan assessments with the relevant Project / Service Transformation Manager/PCN Development Managers
- Provide accurate, timely and appropriate monitoring reports, briefings, and presentations
- Develop and implement an agreed common set of programme and project management tools
- Identify and analyse risks, issues and interdependencies between projects and programmes and recommend actions to overcome these, ensuring relevant logs are kept updated
- Critically review projects and provide expertise in project and programme management
- Analyse highly complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options and recommendations
Support managers directly with interactions between healthcare providers. Be familiar with the commissioning, delivery and maintenance of small and intermediate scale health care interventions
Business Relationships
- Be an influential member of the Programme Delivery Team.
- Develop and maintain communications with Service Transformation Managers/PCN Development Managers and other stakeholders
- Cultivate excellent links working across divisional and organisational boundaries
- Present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups
- Build dependency management into the programme governance cycle and undertake analysis to identify interdependencies
Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times and that data belonging to the Trust is protected
Management of Resources
- Ensure programme resource achieves maximum beneficial effect by developing an agreed work plan with Local Delivery Teams
- Line management of resources in the Planning and Partnerships Programme Delivery Team, including the review of performance against the agreed work plan and standards.
- Develop the skills and competence of staff to meet current and future demands and support their personal development through the annual PDR process.
- Have oversight of the contractual needs of different projects and understand the cost effectiveness of health care interventions providing challenge and support as necessary for the delivery of integrated neighbourhood working / teams.
Personal / Professional Development
- Use all reasonable opportunities to maintain and improve your professional knowledge and competence.
Participate in personal objective setting and review, including the creation of a personal development plan and the Trusts appraisal process
Other Responsibilities
- Deputise for the Deputy Locality Director at internal and external meetings as required.
- Demonstrate continuing professional development, through development of knowledge, skills and keeping up to date with professional practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project and Programme Delivery
- Create and manage an INW/T Strategic Programme Delivery Plan.
- Undertake regular project and programme plan assessments with the relevant Project / Service Transformation Manager/PCN Development Managers
- Provide accurate, timely and appropriate monitoring reports, briefings, and presentations
- Develop and implement an agreed common set of programme and project management tools
- Identify and analyse risks, issues and interdependencies between projects and programmes and recommend actions to overcome these, ensuring relevant logs are kept updated
- Critically review projects and provide expertise in project and programme management
- Analyse highly complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options and recommendations
Support managers directly with interactions between healthcare providers. Be familiar with the commissioning, delivery and maintenance of small and intermediate scale health care interventions
Business Relationships
- Be an influential member of the Programme Delivery Team.
- Develop and maintain communications with Service Transformation Managers/PCN Development Managers and other stakeholders
- Cultivate excellent links working across divisional and organisational boundaries
- Present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups
- Build dependency management into the programme governance cycle and undertake analysis to identify interdependencies
Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times and that data belonging to the Trust is protected
Management of Resources
- Ensure programme resource achieves maximum beneficial effect by developing an agreed work plan with Local Delivery Teams
- Line management of resources in the Planning and Partnerships Programme Delivery Team, including the review of performance against the agreed work plan and standards.
- Develop the skills and competence of staff to meet current and future demands and support their personal development through the annual PDR process.
- Have oversight of the contractual needs of different projects and understand the cost effectiveness of health care interventions providing challenge and support as necessary for the delivery of integrated neighbourhood working / teams.
Personal / Professional Development
- Use all reasonable opportunities to maintain and improve your professional knowledge and competence.
Participate in personal objective setting and review, including the creation of a personal development plan and the Trusts appraisal process
Other Responsibilities
- Deputise for the Deputy Locality Director at internal and external meetings as required.
- Demonstrate continuing professional development, through development of knowledge, skills and keeping up to date with professional practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications - Academic/Craft/Professional
Essential
- Masters, equivalent level qualification and/or experience
- Qualification in Managing Successful Programmes or similar
Desirable
- Project Management Qualifications (eg PRINCE2 or similar)
Training
Essential
- Training in Programme Management
- Computer literacy and able to use relevant IT systems
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Able to sit or stand for substantial periods of the day, with regular moving between meeting rooms and travel to locations other than the office base
Knowledge
Essential
- An applied knowledge of programme management tools, techniques and governance, including risk management
- A good understanding of the context and challenges facing the NHS.
- A sound understanding of change management models and service transformation
- Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, underpinned by theory knowledge of specific area, plus further staff and project and programme management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience or training
Desirable
- An understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing community and mental health providers.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a key programme management role within a large organisation
- Delivering objectives to timescales within a complex and challenging environment.
- Experience of working autonomously and using initiative to drive improvements.
- Track record of developing effective working relationships with Board Directors, operational managers and partners.
- Achieving results through working with others who are not under direct management control
- Using and triangulating a range of data sources e.g benchmarking to drive opportunities for future improvements
- Analysing and reporting on current performance and identifying areas for concern.
Desirable
- Experience of programme management in the NHS
- Experience of leading strategic change programmes.
- Developing and coaching others to improve capacity and capability in programme management.
- Experience of strategic planning at an organisational and system level
- Establishing new systems and processes.
Skills
Essential
- Highly analytical and numerate, able to interpret, triangulate, summarise and present a range of different sources of complex information and data.
- Highly proficient IT skills and ability to use relevant software packages, with advanced Excel skills.
- Highly developed programme and project management skills with a demonstrable track record in the delivery of successful programmes and the coordination and prioritisation of different workstreams.
- Excellent communication skills including oral and written, able to communicate and present at all levels internally and with external partners and able to facilitate constructive dialogue
- Successful relationship management skills, able to engage at all levels and with a collaborative style that promotes effective joint working.
- Able to strike a balance between challenge and support and skilled at constructively challenging colleagues where areas are not delivering against key milestones.
- Resilient in dealing with challenging and sensitive situations and managing conflict.
- Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work at both the strategic level and with operational teams on the detail to support delivery of plans
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to all Trust sites and occasionally wider. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however where relevant, reasonable adjustments will be made in line with the Equality Act 2010
Person Specification
Qualifications - Academic/Craft/Professional
Essential
- Masters, equivalent level qualification and/or experience
- Qualification in Managing Successful Programmes or similar
Desirable
- Project Management Qualifications (eg PRINCE2 or similar)
Training
Essential
- Training in Programme Management
- Computer literacy and able to use relevant IT systems
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Able to sit or stand for substantial periods of the day, with regular moving between meeting rooms and travel to locations other than the office base
Knowledge
Essential
- An applied knowledge of programme management tools, techniques and governance, including risk management
- A good understanding of the context and challenges facing the NHS.
- A sound understanding of change management models and service transformation
- Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, underpinned by theory knowledge of specific area, plus further staff and project and programme management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience or training
Desirable
- An understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing community and mental health providers.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a key programme management role within a large organisation
- Delivering objectives to timescales within a complex and challenging environment.
- Experience of working autonomously and using initiative to drive improvements.
- Track record of developing effective working relationships with Board Directors, operational managers and partners.
- Achieving results through working with others who are not under direct management control
- Using and triangulating a range of data sources e.g benchmarking to drive opportunities for future improvements
- Analysing and reporting on current performance and identifying areas for concern.
Desirable
- Experience of programme management in the NHS
- Experience of leading strategic change programmes.
- Developing and coaching others to improve capacity and capability in programme management.
- Experience of strategic planning at an organisational and system level
- Establishing new systems and processes.
Skills
Essential
- Highly analytical and numerate, able to interpret, triangulate, summarise and present a range of different sources of complex information and data.
- Highly proficient IT skills and ability to use relevant software packages, with advanced Excel skills.
- Highly developed programme and project management skills with a demonstrable track record in the delivery of successful programmes and the coordination and prioritisation of different workstreams.
- Excellent communication skills including oral and written, able to communicate and present at all levels internally and with external partners and able to facilitate constructive dialogue
- Successful relationship management skills, able to engage at all levels and with a collaborative style that promotes effective joint working.
- Able to strike a balance between challenge and support and skilled at constructively challenging colleagues where areas are not delivering against key milestones.
- Resilient in dealing with challenging and sensitive situations and managing conflict.
- Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work at both the strategic level and with operational teams on the detail to support delivery of plans
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to all Trust sites and occasionally wider. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however where relevant, reasonable adjustments will be made in line with the Equality Act 2010
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).
