Job summary
NNUH has a vacancy for a highly motivated, senior programme professional to join the Trust's Major Projects Team.
This is a demanding role leading large and complex programmes in line with corporate strategy and capital programme. You will work with senior users and stakeholders to agree programme objectives, appraise delivery options, and prepare Green Book compliant business cases. In addition, experience of programme and project delivery and closure is desirable.
The ideal candidate will have strong commercial skills and significant healthcare infrastructure and facilities programme and project experience. You should be able to evidence significant achievements and be comfortable in working in a large and complex organisation.
In return we can offer you a role with a great deal of variety, autonomy and personal support and the chance to work on a range of exciting programmes that will make a real difference to patients.
You will be expected to champion the NNUH PRIDE values.
This is an integral role to the successful delivery of the Trust's future ambitions, so if you have the relevant experience, ability and knowledge, we would love to hear from you.
For an informal chat to find out more about the role, please contact Julia Kazimierczak, NNUH Head of Major Projects and N&W DAC Programme Director email: julia.kazimierczak@nnuh.nhs.uk
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Interview date: 22nd May 2024
Main duties of the job
Programmes of work for this role range from business case development and delivery of major managed service contracts to large internal estates reconfigurations.
Until its completion in February 2025, a key area of focus for this role will be the N&W Diagnostic Assessment Centres delivery as part of the Community Diagnostic Centres programme, across Norfolk and Waveney. Working in conjunction with the neighbouring Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn and James Paget University Hospitals in Great Yarmouth as a senior member of the Programme Management Office the post holder will be required to manage and monitor the associated projects and workstreams, reporting as defined to internal and external stakeholders.
This role offers the opportunity to work on a nationally recognised £85.9m transformation programme, the largest capital investment in the N&W ICS in the last 20 years.
The opportunity to work across a Programme and influence and support delivery of this major scheme across three trusts.
Be a key member of a team, influencing, supporting and reporting decision-making on a high-profile programme.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead the development of strategic business cases, working closely with internal and external advisors, delivering innovative and transformational programmes of work at NNUH and across N&W Trusts.
Lead large and complex programmes in line with corporate strategy, standards and ethos, working with senior users and stakeholders to agree and specify the project objectives and deliverables, from Business case through to programme and project delivery and closure.
Deliver efficient, high-quality, strategic programmes and projects, capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the Trust and wider N&W ICS. Develop best practice for organisational change with clear accountability and governance arrangements, in line with the Trusts and NHS standards.
Continue to develop the ICS partnership by creating innovative solutions to the N&W Trusts key constraint issues of capacity and service delivery across the region. Liaising closely with N&W Trusts and external agencies to ensure their requirements are fully understood throughout all programmes of work.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUHs PRIDE values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead the development of strategic business cases, working closely with internal and external advisors, delivering innovative and transformational programmes of work at NNUH and across N&W Trusts.
Lead large and complex programmes in line with corporate strategy, standards and ethos, working with senior users and stakeholders to agree and specify the project objectives and deliverables, from Business case through to programme and project delivery and closure.
Deliver efficient, high-quality, strategic programmes and projects, capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the Trust and wider N&W ICS. Develop best practice for organisational change with clear accountability and governance arrangements, in line with the Trusts and NHS standards.
Continue to develop the ICS partnership by creating innovative solutions to the N&W Trusts key constraint issues of capacity and service delivery across the region. Liaising closely with N&W Trusts and external agencies to ensure their requirements are fully understood throughout all programmes of work.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUHs PRIDE values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's or professional qualification e.g. Procurement or finance or equivalent experience
- 'Managing Successful Programmes' Practitioner level
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of financial procedures including budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience in process development including Change, Risk Management, Governance and Assurance
Experience
Essential
- workload, appropriately direct others and adjust plans as required both in the short and long term
Attitude & Aptitude
Essential
- Effective leadership skills with a strong drive for service improvement.
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's or professional qualification e.g. Procurement or finance or equivalent experience
- 'Managing Successful Programmes' Practitioner level
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of financial procedures including budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience in process development including Change, Risk Management, Governance and Assurance
Experience
Essential
- workload, appropriately direct others and adjust plans as required both in the short and long term
Attitude & Aptitude
Essential
- Effective leadership skills with a strong drive for service improvement.
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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).