Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Programme Director to join us in leading the planning & construction of a new hospital for Airedale by 2030 as part of the Government's New Hospital Programme.
This is a once in a generation opportunity to be involved in a major hospital development and we are seeking a proactive, agile and collaborative individual with a passion for healthcare to join us and take forward our ambitions.
The Programme Director will be responsible for guiding the direction of both the New Hospital and RAAC schemes under one portfolio, ensuring that appropriate resources are in place and building a culture of programme excellence where colleagues & our communities have access to opportunities and are supported to thrive.
This leadership role will be pivotal in ensuring that the programme is delivered to the highest standards of governance, with clear public accountability, with distinct objectives to deliver its goals within stipulated timelines, financial envelopes, & quality benchmarks.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in delivering major projects, a comprehensive understanding of the NHS, and a passion for reducing health inequalities and driving integrated care.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust believes in putting people first and as such promotes a range of flexible and agile working opportunities as well as staff benefits and wellbeing services.
Please note: interviews for this role will be held on either 16/18 January 2024.
Main duties of the job
The Programme Director is a newly created role which will lead the delivery of a new hospital on the grounds of Airedale General Hospital. The scheme is one of the Government's 48 new hospitals and has been prioritised for completion in 2030 due to the RAAC structural challenges within existing buildings.
The key responsibilities of the role are as follows:
- Leading the day-to-day delivery of the Airedale General Hospital redevelopment programme, line managing the programme team and overseeing the planning and delivery of both the New Hospital and RAAC schemes under the Securing the Future Programme.
- Working across systems and partnerships to influence, collaborate and set ambitious yet achievable goals. This includes maintaining key relationships with the Trust Board of Directors, the New Hospital Programme, NHS England's RAAC Programme, and a wide range of partners and stakeholders to maximise opportunities to improve quality of care for patients in our population.
- Responsible for the programme budget, financial planning, monitoring expenditure and reporting in line with the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.Setting the overall strategy and direction for the programme, set programme success criteria with the SRO and monitor progress, engaging with assurance protocols, and responding to recommendations as required.
About us
There has never been a better time to join Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
Our award-winning organisation employs more than 3500 colleagues and provides both acute and community NHS services. The Trust is a leader in the fields of telemedicine and digital health and has consistently been named as one of the top 40 trusts in the UK by CHKS.
Our vision is focused on putting patients at the heart of everything we do
We work hard to ensure our staff and community are our priority with progressive services in order to meet our populations' needs. We want our people to thrive in providing great services and care, ultimately leading to healthy communities, ensuring we provide the best service possible for our population.
The Trust is currently rolling out a major Electronic Patient Record programme and has recently been accepted onto the Government's New Hospital Programme to construct a new hospital on the grounds of Airedale General Hospital.
Airedale General Hospital is ideally situated with access to the Yorkshire Dales National Park, a short train journey to the major cities of Bradford and Leeds, and award-winning towns on the doorstep including Ilkley and Skipton - both previously voted the best place to live in the UK by The Sunday Times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
The Trust is seeking an experienced Programme Director to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of the new hospital alongside the scheme to structurally support existing buildings and maintain safety on its premises.
The Programme Director is accountable to the New Hospital Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), RAAC SRO, Programme Sponsor (Chief Executive), Programme Board and will report directly to the Director of Strategy, Planning and Partnerships.
The Programme Director will lead the project on a day-to-day basis managing both the internal core team, key internal stakeholders and external specialist and technical advisors. The Programme Director will support the team in defining clear objectives via business case development and delivering against those objectives to time, cost, and quality parameters.
The Programme Director will be the key interface for engagement with the national NHS England RAAC Programme and New Hospital Programme, developing and maintaining strong working relationships for the benefit of the organisation and to minimise delays to the delivery of both schemes.
Job Purpose
The new hospital development is a once in a generation opportunity to construct acute hospital facilities that meet future population needs, with a commitment to achieving Net Zero Carbon standards and full digitalisation. The scheme will act as a catalyst for transformational change both within the organisation and across community services, our local Place and ICB and fulfilling the organisations commitments as a care provider, major employer and anchor institution.
The Programme Director role will play a key role in shaping the future, ensuring that the right people are engaged and involved in the planning and construction of the new hospital, aligned to the requirements of the NHPs Hospital 2.0 design, while providing the platform for a refreshed strategic vision and the alignment of the estate with future clinical need.
In doing so, the Programme Director will also oversee the RAAC scheme, which is crucial to ensuring the safety of our patients and people between now and the opening of the new hospital. They will be a key facilitator in securing future funding for this work, and for the strategic planning and delivery of structural and other works, ensuring there is clear alignment between the two schemes.
The Programme reports to the Trust Board of Directors via a Board Committee and Programme Board. The postholder is accountable to the Chief Executive and reports to the Director of Strategy, Planning and Partnerships.
Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the role are as follows:
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of the Airedale General Hospital redevelopment programme, line managing the programme team and overseeing the planning and delivery of both the New Hospital and RAAC schemes under the Securing the Future Programme.
- Making key decisions in relation to the delivery of the programme and its projects, in line with the agreed governance, risk and compliance framework.
- Ensure the Programme is delivered in line with statutory duties to financial management, procurement, and public consultation as defined in the Health and Care Act 2022.
- Responsible for the programme budget, financial planning, monitoring expenditure and reporting in line with the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions.
- Setting the overall strategy and direction for the programme, set programme success criteria with the SRO and monitor progress, engaging with assurance protocols, and responding to recommendations as required.
- Represent the Trust at local., regional and national level, developing and maintaining key relationships with the national New Hospital Programme and national RAAC programme, and lead on the ongoing negotiations required to deliver the Trust schemes.
- Further define and develop the delivery structure responsible for day-to-day working across the programme, encompassing and keeping informed both internal and external stakeholders.
- Accountable for ensuring the delivery structure is supported by clear governance, oversight, and assurance functions and monitor and update these functions on a regular basis.
- Lead all aspects of the programme controls and approvals process including reviewing and approving Requests for Information (RFI) and holding accountability for the consistency and accuracy of information reporting.
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of the project, ensuring business case benefits and outcomes are clearly defined and achieved within time, cost, and quantity constraints.
- Lead the development of the business case, aligning senior stakeholders and obtaining the required approvals, using and managing select external advisory support where required to ensure strict timescales are achieved.
- Work with the SRO to engage senior stakeholders to understand needs, build consensus and ensure buy-in, and manage interdependencies and business change. This must involve working with clinicians to ensure clinical design of the new Hospital aligns to the Trusts Clinical Strategy.
- Working with the Estates Director and Clinical Director to ensure alignment across the Clinical, Digital and Design workstreams.
- Manage the commercial and legal aspects of the project and the programme's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses. Approval expenditure up to limits defined by the Trusts Scheme of Delegation.
- To consult with colleagues to agree quality standards and systems for management of clinical risk and maintenance of all relevant statutory, regulatory and quality assurance standards.
- Identify skill requirements at all stages of the programme and build and develop a strong delivery-focused programme within budget constraints, identifying need for external resource requirement.
- Ensure an effective and appropriate benefits realisation strategy is in place and that benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked, and owned successfully.
- Ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are managed and reported effectively, enrolling senior stakeholders and specialists in mitigations where needed.
- Set programme success criteria with the SRO and monitor progress, engaging with assurance protocols, and responding to recommendations as required. The Programme Director should establish excellent communication links with NHP and RAAC representatives, foster proactive and collaborative approaches and devise clear strategies for communicating issues, negotiating and navigating challenges.
- Ensure that principles of codesign with relevant stakeholders, including service users are incorporated into programme delivery at all stages
- Ensure a culture of effective and open programme/project management is deployed within the team, and that outputs are consistently aligned to the clinical strategy and ensure projects are always co-produced.
- Create an effective, positive, and collaborative work environment in which the programme can flourish and succeed.
- Actively encourage diversity within the programme, ensuring the creation of opportunities from a wide range of communities, those with lived experience, and those for whom traditional career pathways may not be truly accessible.
- Own and manage appointment of specialist and technical advisors, making sure the programme works in harmony and knows what they need from each other.
- Provide line management to core team members, acting as leader, mentor and facilitator to ensure the continued professional development of colleagues both within the programme and in the wider organisation.
- Responsible for all aspects of programme improvement including audit, research and the use of evidence-based improvement methodologies.
- Owning the programmes legacy strategy for ensuring that skills and opportunities developed throughout the life of the programme are transferred for the wider benefit of the organisation.
- Owns the programme risks and is responsible for ensuring that risks are escalated through the appropriate channels at the earliest opportunity and that any personal concerns regarding the delivery of the Programme, or any individuals employed or involved therein, are escalated or shared via the Trusts Freedom to Speak Up Guardian.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
The Trust is seeking an experienced Programme Director to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of the new hospital alongside the scheme to structurally support existing buildings and maintain safety on its premises.
The Programme Director is accountable to the New Hospital Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), RAAC SRO, Programme Sponsor (Chief Executive), Programme Board and will report directly to the Director of Strategy, Planning and Partnerships.
The Programme Director will lead the project on a day-to-day basis managing both the internal core team, key internal stakeholders and external specialist and technical advisors. The Programme Director will support the team in defining clear objectives via business case development and delivering against those objectives to time, cost, and quality parameters.
The Programme Director will be the key interface for engagement with the national NHS England RAAC Programme and New Hospital Programme, developing and maintaining strong working relationships for the benefit of the organisation and to minimise delays to the delivery of both schemes.
Job Purpose
The new hospital development is a once in a generation opportunity to construct acute hospital facilities that meet future population needs, with a commitment to achieving Net Zero Carbon standards and full digitalisation. The scheme will act as a catalyst for transformational change both within the organisation and across community services, our local Place and ICB and fulfilling the organisations commitments as a care provider, major employer and anchor institution.
The Programme Director role will play a key role in shaping the future, ensuring that the right people are engaged and involved in the planning and construction of the new hospital, aligned to the requirements of the NHPs Hospital 2.0 design, while providing the platform for a refreshed strategic vision and the alignment of the estate with future clinical need.
In doing so, the Programme Director will also oversee the RAAC scheme, which is crucial to ensuring the safety of our patients and people between now and the opening of the new hospital. They will be a key facilitator in securing future funding for this work, and for the strategic planning and delivery of structural and other works, ensuring there is clear alignment between the two schemes.
The Programme reports to the Trust Board of Directors via a Board Committee and Programme Board. The postholder is accountable to the Chief Executive and reports to the Director of Strategy, Planning and Partnerships.
Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the role are as follows:
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of the Airedale General Hospital redevelopment programme, line managing the programme team and overseeing the planning and delivery of both the New Hospital and RAAC schemes under the Securing the Future Programme.
- Making key decisions in relation to the delivery of the programme and its projects, in line with the agreed governance, risk and compliance framework.
- Ensure the Programme is delivered in line with statutory duties to financial management, procurement, and public consultation as defined in the Health and Care Act 2022.
- Responsible for the programme budget, financial planning, monitoring expenditure and reporting in line with the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions.
- Setting the overall strategy and direction for the programme, set programme success criteria with the SRO and monitor progress, engaging with assurance protocols, and responding to recommendations as required.
- Represent the Trust at local., regional and national level, developing and maintaining key relationships with the national New Hospital Programme and national RAAC programme, and lead on the ongoing negotiations required to deliver the Trust schemes.
- Further define and develop the delivery structure responsible for day-to-day working across the programme, encompassing and keeping informed both internal and external stakeholders.
- Accountable for ensuring the delivery structure is supported by clear governance, oversight, and assurance functions and monitor and update these functions on a regular basis.
- Lead all aspects of the programme controls and approvals process including reviewing and approving Requests for Information (RFI) and holding accountability for the consistency and accuracy of information reporting.
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of the project, ensuring business case benefits and outcomes are clearly defined and achieved within time, cost, and quantity constraints.
- Lead the development of the business case, aligning senior stakeholders and obtaining the required approvals, using and managing select external advisory support where required to ensure strict timescales are achieved.
- Work with the SRO to engage senior stakeholders to understand needs, build consensus and ensure buy-in, and manage interdependencies and business change. This must involve working with clinicians to ensure clinical design of the new Hospital aligns to the Trusts Clinical Strategy.
- Working with the Estates Director and Clinical Director to ensure alignment across the Clinical, Digital and Design workstreams.
- Manage the commercial and legal aspects of the project and the programme's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses. Approval expenditure up to limits defined by the Trusts Scheme of Delegation.
- To consult with colleagues to agree quality standards and systems for management of clinical risk and maintenance of all relevant statutory, regulatory and quality assurance standards.
- Identify skill requirements at all stages of the programme and build and develop a strong delivery-focused programme within budget constraints, identifying need for external resource requirement.
- Ensure an effective and appropriate benefits realisation strategy is in place and that benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked, and owned successfully.
- Ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are managed and reported effectively, enrolling senior stakeholders and specialists in mitigations where needed.
- Set programme success criteria with the SRO and monitor progress, engaging with assurance protocols, and responding to recommendations as required. The Programme Director should establish excellent communication links with NHP and RAAC representatives, foster proactive and collaborative approaches and devise clear strategies for communicating issues, negotiating and navigating challenges.
- Ensure that principles of codesign with relevant stakeholders, including service users are incorporated into programme delivery at all stages
- Ensure a culture of effective and open programme/project management is deployed within the team, and that outputs are consistently aligned to the clinical strategy and ensure projects are always co-produced.
- Create an effective, positive, and collaborative work environment in which the programme can flourish and succeed.
- Actively encourage diversity within the programme, ensuring the creation of opportunities from a wide range of communities, those with lived experience, and those for whom traditional career pathways may not be truly accessible.
- Own and manage appointment of specialist and technical advisors, making sure the programme works in harmony and knows what they need from each other.
- Provide line management to core team members, acting as leader, mentor and facilitator to ensure the continued professional development of colleagues both within the programme and in the wider organisation.
- Responsible for all aspects of programme improvement including audit, research and the use of evidence-based improvement methodologies.
- Owning the programmes legacy strategy for ensuring that skills and opportunities developed throughout the life of the programme are transferred for the wider benefit of the organisation.
- Owns the programme risks and is responsible for ensuring that risks are escalated through the appropriate channels at the earliest opportunity and that any personal concerns regarding the delivery of the Programme, or any individuals employed or involved therein, are escalated or shared via the Trusts Freedom to Speak Up Guardian.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- APM Chartered Project Professional qualification
- Project or Programme Management Chartership
- Major Projects Leadership Academy membership
- Better Business Case accreditation
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in delivering major estates or capital programmes / projects
- Experience of developing successful business cases to enable service transformation to time, quality, and budget
- Experience and knowledge of HM Treasury Green Book business case development
- Experience of delivering successful business cases at OBC and FBC stages for significant and strategic developments
- Significant experience of managing multiple costs and budgets throughout project lifecycles
Desirable
- Experience of working on programmes or projects relating to Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- APM Chartered Project Professional qualification
- Project or Programme Management Chartership
- Major Projects Leadership Academy membership
- Better Business Case accreditation
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in delivering major estates or capital programmes / projects
- Experience of developing successful business cases to enable service transformation to time, quality, and budget
- Experience and knowledge of HM Treasury Green Book business case development
- Experience of delivering successful business cases at OBC and FBC stages for significant and strategic developments
- Significant experience of managing multiple costs and budgets throughout project lifecycles
Desirable
- Experience of working on programmes or projects relating to Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
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).
