Improvement & Transformation Programme Manager

Barts Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

IMPROVEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME MANAGER (Band 8C)

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. We are entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in northeast London and beyond.

The Improvement and Transformation team is a corporate team established to support delivery of the Trust's vision. The team provides leadership, management, and direction for improvement and transformation programmes, using Quality Improvement methodology to enable delivery.

Main duties of the job

We are now seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and capable Programme Managers to drive forward the Trust's exciting improvement and transformation agenda. The Programme Managers will lead a team to support a variety of major programmes which are clinically led and currently include outpatients, unplanned care, elective recovery, and patient safety. These programmes work across the group and with the different Trust hospitals.

If you have significant experience in leadership in the delivery of improvement and transformation programmes in a large, complex organisation, we would like to hear from you. Candidates will have leadership skills, the ability to work flexibly and to tight timescales across multiple teams. Working with minimal supervision and within a matrix management structure postholders will work within the Improvement and Transformation Programme Team, and with senior operational and clinical teams across the Trust.

Travel to different hospital sites within the Barts Health Group and to other partner organisation will be necessary.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.We are happy to consider applications from those seeking flexible and part time roles.

Date posted

22 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£78,163 to £88,884 a year per annum inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

259-5679775GSS

Job locations

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information please contact Sara Davenport, Deputy Director Improvement sara.davenport4@nhs.net or Jen Leonard, Director- QI Programme jen.leonard@nhs.net.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information please contact Sara Davenport, Deputy Director Improvement sara.davenport4@nhs.net or Jen Leonard, Director- QI Programme jen.leonard@nhs.net.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience

Experience

Essential

Significant leadership experience in delivery of transformation programmes in a large, complex organisation
Recent and relevant experience of working in the NHS
A track record of delivering successful projects to time and managing large budgets

Skills

Essential

Highly developed influencing and negotiation skills which need to overcome significant barriers to acceptance.
To manage workload effectively in light of competing priorities and tight deadlines
Team leadership skills

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience

Experience

Essential

Significant leadership experience in delivery of transformation programmes in a large, complex organisation
Recent and relevant experience of working in the NHS
A track record of delivering successful projects to time and managing large budgets

Skills

Essential

Highly developed influencing and negotiation skills which need to overcome significant barriers to acceptance.
To manage workload effectively in light of competing priorities and tight deadlines
Team leadership skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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