Group Programme Manager

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Group Programme Manager for Medicine and Emergency Care to join our existing Group leadership team at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.

This is a unique opportunity to support the programme of work to lead our Group into the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.

You will need to demonstrate extensive experience of successful project management at a senior level, knowledge of clinical services, possess strong leadership skills, and have a proven track record of delivering results.

You must have current/recent experience in managing significant projects in a large complex acute health care environment with evidence of delivering quality and safety improvement and ensuring there is a strong governance framework supporting safe clinical practice.

As well as having the relevant experience you must be resilient, with a strong work ethic and the ability to build effective working relationships with multidisciplinary clinical colleagues.

If you think that you are ready for this dynamic and challenging role, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Key tasks and responsibilities will be as follows:

Support delivery of an efficient and effective workforce.
Demand and capacity planning is accurate and informs service design.
Optimisation of services and achievement of best practice standards.
Support performance delivery against national and local targets/key performance indicators/outcome measures.
Leading/facilitating service redesign activities.
Providing coaching to enable service redesign knowledge transfer for operational managers/speciality leads in Medicine and Emergency Care alongside the development of a continuous improvement culture.
Developing a programme management approach to visually support progress and change.
Aligning projects with other corporate teams to prevent duplication and repetition.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Date posted

24 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

381-ME-5769775

Job locations

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4JH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Senior management experience of clinical services
Multi-professional working
Project management
Experience of partnership working with statutory agencies

Desirable

Experience of working with service users and public
Strategic experience

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent
Professional/Clinical qualification (e.g. RGN, Allied Health Professional)
Demonstrable expertise in the tools and techniques of service redesign and development

Desirable

Project Management e.g. Prince 2

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Senior management experience of clinical services
Multi-professional working
Project management
Experience of partnership working with statutory agencies

Desirable

Experience of working with service users and public
Strategic experience

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent
Professional/Clinical qualification (e.g. RGN, Allied Health Professional)
Demonstrable expertise in the tools and techniques of service redesign and development

Desirable

Project Management e.g. Prince 2

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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