Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior leader to join the Northern Care Alliance (NCA) as Programme Director for the RAAC Programme. This new role is central to delivering our Trust-wide response to Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and ensuring the long-term safety, resilience and sustainability of our estate.
The Trust is part of the national RAAC Programme and the NCA has been prioritised for full RAAC replacement by 2035, recognising the significant structural and safety challenges associated with RAAC in our existing buildings. You will lead this ambitious, complex programme, ensuring safe RAAC removal while maintaining service continuity. The programme is a key enabler of our Clinical, Estates, Digital and Green strategies.
You will provide strategic, operational and programme leadership across one of our largest capital transformation portfolios. You will shape the programme vision, drive performance, manage risk and foster a positive culture within the programme team. Working closely with clinical, operational and estates colleagues, you will ensure the programme delivers improved patient care, enhanced environments and long-term organisational benefits.
As a senior member of the Capital, Estates and Facilities leadership team, you will be accountable for the RAAC decant strategy, programme delivery and stakeholder engagement. This is a role of significant scale, influence and purpose.
Main duties of the job
You will lead the Trust's RAAC Programme, driving the day-to-day delivery of a major and complex redevelopment that enhances safety, sustainability and long-term resilience across our estate. Central to this role is setting the programme's direction and pace, establishing clear priorities, defining success measures and ensuring strong governance so that all elements are delivered to the required time, cost and quality standards.
You will manage, motivate and develop the RAAC Programme Team, creating a collaborative, high-performing environment where innovation, proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement thrive. Working closely with colleagues across the Trust, NHS England's RAAC Programme, local system partners and external advisors, you will build strong and productive relationships that maximise opportunities and ensure alignment across all stakeholders.
A key part of the role is providing senior leadership, assurance and expert insight to the Trust Board and Executive Team. You will deliver clear, confident programme updates, identify emerging issues, and recommend evidence-based actions to maintain progress. You will also oversee the programme's finances, ensuring accurate planning, forecasting, reporting and compliance with Standing Financial Instructions, while championing high-quality delivery through effective risk management, assurance processes and data-led decision-making.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
To be considered for this exciting role, please upload your CV and a covering letter via the 'Supporting Information' section of the application form.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
To be considered for this exciting role, please upload your CV and a covering letter via the 'Supporting Information' section of the application form.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification
- Educated to a minimum of Master's degree level, or equivalent post graduate qualification
- Evidence of management development through Continuous Professional Development and/or formal management course
Desirable
- Qualifications in construction
- Specialist training in areas such as: 1) Programme and Project Management; 2) Construction; 3)Estates Management; 4)Risk Management
Professional Registration
Desirable
- Relevant professional body registration
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in delivering major estates or capital programme/projects
- Experience of developing successful business cases to enable service transformation to time, quality and budget
- Experience and knowledge of the HM Treasury Green Book business case development
- Knowledge of all functional aspects of a programme including commercial operations and procurement, planning, resource management and asset allocation, scheduling activity, change and risk management.
- Experience of delivering successful business cases at OBC and FBC stages for significant strategic developments.
- Recognised credible leader who can form and manage high performance, output driven teams
- Experience of preparing and presenting reports of complex, sensitive or contentious information at senior forums
- Experienced in developing and leading new teams
- Relationship builder in a complex environment - comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments
- Resilient and tenacious in a fast paced and challenging environment
Desirable
- Significant knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the political, strategic and operational environment in which it operates
- Knowledge of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) programme
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates significant level of communication skills
- Ability to work to agreed goals, in a self-directed and professional manner
- Organisation and time management skills to manage and deliver a range of multiple tasks and projects to tight deadlines
- Ability to engage and influence and persuade a broad range of individuals and professional groups at all levels of seniority in highly emotive or antagonistic environments, including large groups in a politically aware and sensitive manner
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach to identifying and taking forward opportunities, shaping new ideas and partnerships
- Ability to respond, prioritise and manage unexpected demands and priorities
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing and competing deadlines
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification
- Educated to a minimum of Master's degree level, or equivalent post graduate qualification
- Evidence of management development through Continuous Professional Development and/or formal management course
Desirable
- Qualifications in construction
- Specialist training in areas such as: 1) Programme and Project Management; 2) Construction; 3)Estates Management; 4)Risk Management
Professional Registration
Desirable
- Relevant professional body registration
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in delivering major estates or capital programme/projects
- Experience of developing successful business cases to enable service transformation to time, quality and budget
- Experience and knowledge of the HM Treasury Green Book business case development
- Knowledge of all functional aspects of a programme including commercial operations and procurement, planning, resource management and asset allocation, scheduling activity, change and risk management.
- Experience of delivering successful business cases at OBC and FBC stages for significant strategic developments.
- Recognised credible leader who can form and manage high performance, output driven teams
- Experience of preparing and presenting reports of complex, sensitive or contentious information at senior forums
- Experienced in developing and leading new teams
- Relationship builder in a complex environment - comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments
- Resilient and tenacious in a fast paced and challenging environment
Desirable
- Significant knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the political, strategic and operational environment in which it operates
- Knowledge of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) programme
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates significant level of communication skills
- Ability to work to agreed goals, in a self-directed and professional manner
- Organisation and time management skills to manage and deliver a range of multiple tasks and projects to tight deadlines
- Ability to engage and influence and persuade a broad range of individuals and professional groups at all levels of seniority in highly emotive or antagonistic environments, including large groups in a politically aware and sensitive manner
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach to identifying and taking forward opportunities, shaping new ideas and partnerships
- Ability to respond, prioritise and manage unexpected demands and priorities
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing and competing deadlines
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
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).