Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference to the future of our organisation?
This is an exciting time to join us as you will have the opportunity to be able to proactively influence and shape future strategy and direction of travel of our organisation and its services in conjunction with key stakeholders, including patients. The role covers a broad and diverse agenda and you will have a key part to play in delivering transformational change internally and also across the wider local health system.
We value originality and integrity in our hiring process. Please note that all applications must be entirely your own work and AI-generated content is not acceptable and will be disqualified.We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to showcase your skills and experiences authentically.
Improving
Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:
As
part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action
is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+
candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview
Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person
specification for this role.
Applicants
will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be
considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response
would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme robert.saunders1@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Please ensure you refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents as the following does not include all duties and requirements for this role.
Main duties of the job
As Head of Transformation and PMO you will
- Play a key role in the development and delivery of the Trusts key transformation and improvement programmes
- Be responsible for programme management of large scale service developments, transformation and innovation required to take forward the Trusts strategic objectives, including large scale business developments.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic, highly motivated senior manager with a demonstrable track record of successfully leading teams and transformational change within the NHS. You will have excellent programme management, communication, negotiation and influencing skills, along with the resilience and commitment to tackle and deliver multiple and complex agendas. It is essential that you have the ability to bring stakeholders together to establish common goals as well as the necessary skills to translate complex ideas into meaningful plans and actions.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic and supportive team who are passionate about having a positive impact on the work of the trust and the care we provide for patients. If you are someone who is committed to making a difference, we would love to hear from you.
Closing date 19.5.25
Provisional interview date 28.5.25
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post Title Head of Transformation and PMO
Pay Band 8c
Hours Full time -37.5 hours per week
Contract Permanent
Location / DepartmentWorcesterehire Royal Hospital/Strategy, Planning and Improvement Directorate
Accountable toDeputy Director of Strategy, Planning and Improvement
Reports to Deputy Director of Strategy, Planning and Improvement
Key Working Relationships:
Internal
Executive Directors, Non-executive Directors, Divisional and Directorate leadership teams (Divisional Directors, Directors of Operations, Divisional Nursing Directors), Corporate Directors/Deputy Directors (e.g. Finance, HR, Digital, Procurement, Deputy CMOs, CNOs & COOs, Information, Estates & Facilities etc), Clinical Directors, Clinical Leads, other clinicians, Head of Estates, Head of Communications; Head of Contracts, Head of Financial Planning).
External
NHS Regulators, including NHS England and the Care Quality Commission; Transformation and PMO Leads in partner organisations, Directors and senior managers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System (e.g. ICB, Health and Care Trust, acute trusts, Universities, County and District Councils), third party suppliers, national professional groups.
Job Purpose
The Head of PMO will play a key role in delivering the Trusts transformation and improvement agenda. Their main function will be to oversee the development and delivery of all of the Trusts strategic and major transformation programmes and projects through effective development and management of the Trusts programme management office. This includes ensuring that it provides comprehensive and well governed support and assurance across all the Trusts major programmes.
Working closely with the leadership teams of the clinical divisions, corporate services and the Executive team, they will play a crucial role in developing the maturity and visibility of the progress of programmes underpinning the Trusts strategy.
Within the directorate, working closely with the Head of Improvement, they will collaboratively pull together major programmes and manage them under a single umbrella and governance structure. They will ensure programmes are aligned and duplication is avoided, build and follow a programme approach underpinned by clear PMO and transformation principles, understand and manage interdependencies along with identifying, deriving and reporting the optimum benefits from our programmes.
A key area of focus will be supporting the Trusts financial recovery programme and ensuring the schemes that form the Trusts Cost and Productivity Improvement Programme (CPIP) follow process. The Trust is committed to developing a truly integrated programme approach where financial objectives do not sit in isolation from quality objectives.
The Head of Transformation and PMO will be responsible for managing an integrated approach to the implementation of the trusts strategy, along with driving forward collaborative working with other PMOs in the wider health economy.
Key Duties
The post holder will be responsible for development and delivery of a portfolio of the Trusts major strategic and transformation programmes and projects, developing the programme management approach, implementation framework, universal governance, stakeholder management and monitoring framework. Core responsibilities of the role include;
Ensuring that the Transformation and PMO function responds to the trusts strategic, clinical and operational objectives by leading, managing and supporting implementation of the Trusts transformation and improvement programmes (including integrated programmes with partners) so that they deliver their key outcomes and benefits
Developing the capacity, capability and function of the Transformation and PMO Team
CPIP development, support for delivery and reporting
Trust strategy implementation plans including supporting strategies
Development of the directorates transformation / business plans
The post holder will use specialist knowledge and proven in-depth experience in the management and supportive delivery of complex, high value programmes and projects within a highly complex and politicised healthcare setting in order to deliver the programmes benefits in full.
Full job description including additional duties attached along with Person Specification.
Improving
Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
As part of the Trust's aim
to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all
applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request
to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the
minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here
you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed
Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Post Title Head of Transformation and PMO
Pay Band 8c
Hours Full time -37.5 hours per week
Contract Permanent
Location / DepartmentWorcesterehire Royal Hospital/Strategy, Planning and Improvement Directorate
Accountable toDeputy Director of Strategy, Planning and Improvement
Reports to Deputy Director of Strategy, Planning and Improvement
Key Working Relationships:
Internal
Executive Directors, Non-executive Directors, Divisional and Directorate leadership teams (Divisional Directors, Directors of Operations, Divisional Nursing Directors), Corporate Directors/Deputy Directors (e.g. Finance, HR, Digital, Procurement, Deputy CMOs, CNOs & COOs, Information, Estates & Facilities etc), Clinical Directors, Clinical Leads, other clinicians, Head of Estates, Head of Communications; Head of Contracts, Head of Financial Planning).
External
NHS Regulators, including NHS England and the Care Quality Commission; Transformation and PMO Leads in partner organisations, Directors and senior managers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System (e.g. ICB, Health and Care Trust, acute trusts, Universities, County and District Councils), third party suppliers, national professional groups.
Job Purpose
The Head of PMO will play a key role in delivering the Trusts transformation and improvement agenda. Their main function will be to oversee the development and delivery of all of the Trusts strategic and major transformation programmes and projects through effective development and management of the Trusts programme management office. This includes ensuring that it provides comprehensive and well governed support and assurance across all the Trusts major programmes.
Working closely with the leadership teams of the clinical divisions, corporate services and the Executive team, they will play a crucial role in developing the maturity and visibility of the progress of programmes underpinning the Trusts strategy.
Within the directorate, working closely with the Head of Improvement, they will collaboratively pull together major programmes and manage them under a single umbrella and governance structure. They will ensure programmes are aligned and duplication is avoided, build and follow a programme approach underpinned by clear PMO and transformation principles, understand and manage interdependencies along with identifying, deriving and reporting the optimum benefits from our programmes.
A key area of focus will be supporting the Trusts financial recovery programme and ensuring the schemes that form the Trusts Cost and Productivity Improvement Programme (CPIP) follow process. The Trust is committed to developing a truly integrated programme approach where financial objectives do not sit in isolation from quality objectives.
The Head of Transformation and PMO will be responsible for managing an integrated approach to the implementation of the trusts strategy, along with driving forward collaborative working with other PMOs in the wider health economy.
Key Duties
The post holder will be responsible for development and delivery of a portfolio of the Trusts major strategic and transformation programmes and projects, developing the programme management approach, implementation framework, universal governance, stakeholder management and monitoring framework. Core responsibilities of the role include;
Ensuring that the Transformation and PMO function responds to the trusts strategic, clinical and operational objectives by leading, managing and supporting implementation of the Trusts transformation and improvement programmes (including integrated programmes with partners) so that they deliver their key outcomes and benefits
Developing the capacity, capability and function of the Transformation and PMO Team
CPIP development, support for delivery and reporting
Trust strategy implementation plans including supporting strategies
Development of the directorates transformation / business plans
The post holder will use specialist knowledge and proven in-depth experience in the management and supportive delivery of complex, high value programmes and projects within a highly complex and politicised healthcare setting in order to deliver the programmes benefits in full.
Full job description including additional duties attached along with Person Specification.
Improving
Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
As part of the Trust's aim
to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all
applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request
to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the
minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here
you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed
Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent
- relevant senior management experience
- Advanced project management qualification such as PRINCE or the equivalent
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up to date knowledge of patients services and evidence of CPD
- Qualified in service improvement methodologies with significant experience of application of learning in practice
- Detailed understanding of NHS Trust regulatory requirements and performance expectations
Experience
Essential
- Problem solving, having the capacity to analyse complex problems in a logical and structured way using qualitative and quantitative information, leading the generation of innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes
- Significant experience of working in a successful programme management environment with the ability to effectively manage and deliver cross programme / project conflict and interdependencies
- Demonstrable experience of developing sophisticated risk management approaches within a programme environment along with experience of designing and implementing robust governance frameworks which are routinely audited for compliance.
- Supporting effective high profile programme management, able to challenge constructively within significantly challenged environments.
- Effectively manage performance by holding self and others to account for delivering required standards and programme outcomes
- People and budget management skills: including managing a team, management of individual staff, staff development and teambuilding.
- Substantial experience of developing and delivering strategic and business plans
- Presentation, being articulate and skilled in presenting ideas to others, including potentially contentious or unwelcome ideas/information in hostile environments where opinions may differ. Able to prepare and produce concise and insightful reports for a broad range of audiences, including large groups
- Analytical, able to use and interpret complex and contentious information to make robust recommendations for evidence-based practice and decision-making, including removing barriers to understanding
- Prioritisation, able to manage work of self and others to accommodate competing priorities and meet demands
- High level of computer-literacy: including creation and use of spread sheets, databases, charts, reports, presentations and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision-making, working with a high degree of accuracy
- Motivating, ability to inspire confidence in staff across the organisation and to influence and negotiate at a senior level. Ability to motivate self and others and work autonomously as well as working effectively as part of the team T
- he ability to work constructively with clinicians and divisional management teams
Desirable
- Experience of using NHS information, benchmarking data and hospital information systems
- Able to facilitate workshops, meetings and engagement sessions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent
- relevant senior management experience
- Advanced project management qualification such as PRINCE or the equivalent
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up to date knowledge of patients services and evidence of CPD
- Qualified in service improvement methodologies with significant experience of application of learning in practice
- Detailed understanding of NHS Trust regulatory requirements and performance expectations
Experience
Essential
- Problem solving, having the capacity to analyse complex problems in a logical and structured way using qualitative and quantitative information, leading the generation of innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes
- Significant experience of working in a successful programme management environment with the ability to effectively manage and deliver cross programme / project conflict and interdependencies
- Demonstrable experience of developing sophisticated risk management approaches within a programme environment along with experience of designing and implementing robust governance frameworks which are routinely audited for compliance.
- Supporting effective high profile programme management, able to challenge constructively within significantly challenged environments.
- Effectively manage performance by holding self and others to account for delivering required standards and programme outcomes
- People and budget management skills: including managing a team, management of individual staff, staff development and teambuilding.
- Substantial experience of developing and delivering strategic and business plans
- Presentation, being articulate and skilled in presenting ideas to others, including potentially contentious or unwelcome ideas/information in hostile environments where opinions may differ. Able to prepare and produce concise and insightful reports for a broad range of audiences, including large groups
- Analytical, able to use and interpret complex and contentious information to make robust recommendations for evidence-based practice and decision-making, including removing barriers to understanding
- Prioritisation, able to manage work of self and others to accommodate competing priorities and meet demands
- High level of computer-literacy: including creation and use of spread sheets, databases, charts, reports, presentations and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision-making, working with a high degree of accuracy
- Motivating, ability to inspire confidence in staff across the organisation and to influence and negotiate at a senior level. Ability to motivate self and others and work autonomously as well as working effectively as part of the team T
- he ability to work constructively with clinicians and divisional management teams
Desirable
- Experience of using NHS information, benchmarking data and hospital information systems
- Able to facilitate workshops, meetings and engagement sessions
