Job summary
The Innovation Agency (Academic Health Science Network for the North west Coast) is looking for a resourceful and talented Senior Programme Manager with strong quality improvement and project management experience in health and care to support the delivery of our national and locally commissioned programmes across the North West Coast.
The Innovation Agency works across a range of Programmes including Mental Health, Medicines Optimisation, Cardiovascular Disease, Respiratory Disease, Deterioration and Maternity and in a range of environments, including primary care, secondary care, care homes, mental health trusts and community settings.
This is an opportunity to join our Patient Safety and Care Improvement Team at the centre of an agile organisation working with partners in businesses, the NHS, other public sector organisations, charities and social enterprises.
We want to hear from individuals who share our passion for helping others to find new, improved ways of working that benefit patients, health and care services and the population. We pride ourselves on a caring, collaborative culture and you will work with local and national partners to identify innovative solutions that deliver to local needs. The role also offers opportunities to work with colleagues across the national AHSN Network, and our ICS partners.
This is a 12-month fixed term or secondment opportunity reporting to the Innovation Agencys Head of Programmes.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Programme Manager will manage a portfolio of programmes within the Patient Safety Care Improvement Team with a focus on CVD. They will have operational responsibility for leading and delivering programmes of work, across the whole of the geographic region, working in partnership with all stakeholders and aligned to locally agreed work with our Integrated Care Boards (ICB) Medical Directors.
The post holder will be comfortable working in an evolving health and care landscape and with managing uncertainty. They will have the ability to manage a rolling programme of work, responding to changes in programmes while working to a high standard. As such, the role requires a high degree of personal initiative, confidence and flexibility, coupled with excellent management, analytic, communication and programme delivery skills.
Much of our work is collaborative and delivered with and through partners, as such, the ability to establish and lead networks or partnerships focused on specific outcomes is a key requirement of the role.
About us
The Innovation Agency is part of the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).
The AHSN Network is the collective voice of the 15 local Academic Health Science Networks. AHSNs operate simultaneously as a single AHSN Network and as fifteen locally embedded and integrated organisations with strong partnerships at place and Integrated Care System level. Their strength comes from the ability to work at local, regional and national levels, and the interplay between them.
The AHSN Network exists to transform the way the NHS identifies, adopts and spreads innovation and is driven by three imperatives: improving health; improving productivity; and generating economic growth.
This is achieved by accelerating access to innovation, transforming patient experience and health outcomes, driving down the cost of care, supporting safer systems of care, and enabling economic growth through AHSNs unique support for the life sciences sector.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Innovation Agency
The Innovation Agency is one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) established by the NHS in England to accelerate the spread of innovations. The Innovation Agency website contains more details about the organisation and its area of cover (www.innovationagencynwc.nhs.uk) which includes Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The work of the Innovation Agency progresses the Innovation, Health and Wealth agenda and has been established to ensure that innovations benefit the health of individuals, communities, regions and the nation.
AHSNs are a critical structure for aligning the NHS, academia and industry, and work as system integrators across these domains. The Innovation Agency has three strategic goals, these are:
1.Develop cultures that promote equity and allow innovation to thrive
2.Stimulate economic growth and create jobs in the health and life sciences sector
3.Increase the spread and adoption of innovations through collaboration.
Our people are central to the success of the organisation and are valued as such. This is demonstrated objectively in the achievement of the Investors in People (IIP) Gold award.
Our core values drive both how we work together and how we work with our stakeholders, these are:
Making a difference
Honesty and integrity
Collaborative and creative
Caring
Embracing diversity.
The Innovation Agency supports staff in their ongoing development and achievement of personal goals that are aligned to the organisations objectives.
JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Programme Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes to manage a portfolio of programmes within the PSCI Team with a focus on CVD. They will have operational responsibility for leading and delivering programmes of work, across the whole of the geographic region, working in partnership with all stakeholders and aligned to locally agreed work with our Integrated Care Boards (ICB) Medical Directors.
The post holder will report to the Head of Programmes and will support the delivery of the teams business plan which will typically consist of a number of programmes and projects working both internally within the AHSN and externally with a wide variety of NHS and care system colleagues aligned to the systems needs, priorities and plans.
The role requires a high degree of personal initiative, curiosity and flexibility, coupled with excellent analytic, communication and programme delivery skills. Much of our work is collaborative and delivered with and through partners. As such, the ability to establish and lead networks and partnerships is a key requirement of the role whilst being able to demonstrate the ability to cut through the complexity of going to scale, understand engagement methods, delivery and barriers to success, ensuring that innovation is embedded into transformational redesign across the region.
The post-holder will be required to ensure that the programmes they are responsible for are able to demonstrate impact, identifying risks to delivery and mitigating as appropriate. Given the geography of the Innovation Agency and collaboration with the national network and other partners, the post-holder will be required to travel as required by the post.
The post holder will be comfortable working in an evolving landscape and managing uncertainty. You will have the ability to manage a rolling programme of work, work flexibly on behalf of the Innovation Agency and regional partners responding to changing programmes of work whilst still delivering work to a high standard.
Please see attached Job Description for main duties and responsibilities of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Innovation Agency
The Innovation Agency is one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) established by the NHS in England to accelerate the spread of innovations. The Innovation Agency website contains more details about the organisation and its area of cover (www.innovationagencynwc.nhs.uk) which includes Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The work of the Innovation Agency progresses the Innovation, Health and Wealth agenda and has been established to ensure that innovations benefit the health of individuals, communities, regions and the nation.
AHSNs are a critical structure for aligning the NHS, academia and industry, and work as system integrators across these domains. The Innovation Agency has three strategic goals, these are:
1.Develop cultures that promote equity and allow innovation to thrive
2.Stimulate economic growth and create jobs in the health and life sciences sector
3.Increase the spread and adoption of innovations through collaboration.
Our people are central to the success of the organisation and are valued as such. This is demonstrated objectively in the achievement of the Investors in People (IIP) Gold award.
Our core values drive both how we work together and how we work with our stakeholders, these are:
Making a difference
Honesty and integrity
Collaborative and creative
Caring
Embracing diversity.
The Innovation Agency supports staff in their ongoing development and achievement of personal goals that are aligned to the organisations objectives.
JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Programme Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes to manage a portfolio of programmes within the PSCI Team with a focus on CVD. They will have operational responsibility for leading and delivering programmes of work, across the whole of the geographic region, working in partnership with all stakeholders and aligned to locally agreed work with our Integrated Care Boards (ICB) Medical Directors.
The post holder will report to the Head of Programmes and will support the delivery of the teams business plan which will typically consist of a number of programmes and projects working both internally within the AHSN and externally with a wide variety of NHS and care system colleagues aligned to the systems needs, priorities and plans.
The role requires a high degree of personal initiative, curiosity and flexibility, coupled with excellent analytic, communication and programme delivery skills. Much of our work is collaborative and delivered with and through partners. As such, the ability to establish and lead networks and partnerships is a key requirement of the role whilst being able to demonstrate the ability to cut through the complexity of going to scale, understand engagement methods, delivery and barriers to success, ensuring that innovation is embedded into transformational redesign across the region.
The post-holder will be required to ensure that the programmes they are responsible for are able to demonstrate impact, identifying risks to delivery and mitigating as appropriate. Given the geography of the Innovation Agency and collaboration with the national network and other partners, the post-holder will be required to travel as required by the post.
The post holder will be comfortable working in an evolving landscape and managing uncertainty. You will have the ability to manage a rolling programme of work, work flexibly on behalf of the Innovation Agency and regional partners responding to changing programmes of work whilst still delivering work to a high standard.
Please see attached Job Description for main duties and responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or appropriate professional qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline and experience in health related arena.
- Evidence of continuous personal professional development.
- MSP or Project management qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Qualification in a clinical or life science discipline.
- Improvement and measurement methodologies qualification
- Change Agent, QSIR, AIP, Silver QI, Q member
- Clinical professional
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of innovation adoption, improvement and coaching, effectiveness/related field e.g. research, audit, evidence-based practice, quality improvement.
- Excellent understanding of the NHS Long Term Plan, Operational plans, sustainability agenda and Health Inequality agenda and the implication for the Integrated Care Systems.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) pathways and programme
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in quality improvement, integrated governance, patient safety, innovation or clinical profession.
- Significant experience of managing and delivering complex projects to completion and timescales (e.g. planning, developing, resourcing, monitoring, reporting).
- Evidence of working collaboratively and influencing people from a wide range of professional backgrounds (including clinicians and patients) and being effective across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of successfully engaging with multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams to achieve successful outcomes.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Effective leadership, organisational and people management skills
- Excellent organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.
- Extensive project management skills.
- Ability to analyse, rationalise and organise complex information.
- Excellent interpersonal, teambuilding and communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences and promote discussion and agreement.
- Ability to negotiate positive outcomes involving a number of different parties and senior colleagues, managing conflict and challenge across a range of diverse situations.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working partnerships with professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and in other agencies.
Work related criteria
Essential
- Ability to comply with the travel requirements of the post and undertake work-related journeys within the NWC area (regularly), nationally (occasionally) and internationally.
- Must be able to work outside traditional office hours on occasions and work flexibly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or appropriate professional qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline and experience in health related arena.
- Evidence of continuous personal professional development.
- MSP or Project management qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Qualification in a clinical or life science discipline.
- Improvement and measurement methodologies qualification
- Change Agent, QSIR, AIP, Silver QI, Q member
- Clinical professional
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of innovation adoption, improvement and coaching, effectiveness/related field e.g. research, audit, evidence-based practice, quality improvement.
- Excellent understanding of the NHS Long Term Plan, Operational plans, sustainability agenda and Health Inequality agenda and the implication for the Integrated Care Systems.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) pathways and programme
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working at a senior level in quality improvement, integrated governance, patient safety, innovation or clinical profession.
- Significant experience of managing and delivering complex projects to completion and timescales (e.g. planning, developing, resourcing, monitoring, reporting).
- Evidence of working collaboratively and influencing people from a wide range of professional backgrounds (including clinicians and patients) and being effective across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of successfully engaging with multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams to achieve successful outcomes.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Effective leadership, organisational and people management skills
- Excellent organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.
- Extensive project management skills.
- Ability to analyse, rationalise and organise complex information.
- Excellent interpersonal, teambuilding and communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences and promote discussion and agreement.
- Ability to negotiate positive outcomes involving a number of different parties and senior colleagues, managing conflict and challenge across a range of diverse situations.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working partnerships with professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and in other agencies.
Work related criteria
Essential
- Ability to comply with the travel requirements of the post and undertake work-related journeys within the NWC area (regularly), nationally (occasionally) and internationally.
- Must be able to work outside traditional office hours on occasions and work flexibly.
