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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Programme Manager - Apollo
Closed for applications on: 12-Jun-2023 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Jun-2023 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's & St Thomas' Trust
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £78,163 - £88,884 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Electronic Health Record - Programme Deployment
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Get ready to propel your career to new heights as the Apollo Programme Manager for one of the Clinical Outpatient Workstreams! You're not just stepping into a job; you're stepping into a pivotal role within an ambitious and progressive EHR deployment team.
In this dynamic and challenging role, you'll be spearheading a diverse and robust portfolio, managing large-scale, intricate projects that could change the landscape of healthcare forever. The integration of complex Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, enhancing the way we deliver outpatient care, improving patient experiences, and ultimately, transforming lives.
As the Apollo Programme Manager, you're at the helm, leading the charge. You will drive strategic decision-making and tactical execution, working tirelessly to navigate the terrain of intricate healthcare technology. You'll interface with stakeholders at all levels, aligning team objectives with broader internal goals, fostering collaboration, and championing innovation at every turn.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will require resilience, agility, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. But as you chart a course through unexplored territories, know this: your work will be pioneering the future of healthcare, redefining the very meaning of patient-centric care.
This is not just another project management role; this is the chance to be part of something bigger, something meaningful, something that will leave an indelible mark on the world.
Advert
As Apollo Programme Manager, you'll showcase your skills in NHS program management and exhibit strong leadership. You'll oversee an extensive outpatient portfolio, including community care, dental, optometry, transplant, renal, and other outpatient services, ensuring all projects are delivered timely and successfully.
Your duties involve liaising with stakeholders for a coordinated delivery of services, maintaining NHS compliance, and promoting continuous improvement within your team. You'll manage potential risks, utilising your expertise to ensure program success. Regular reports on program progress will be expected, maintaining transparency and trust with stakeholders.
In this role, your leadership will drive improvements in outpatient care, marking a lasting impact on the future of healthcare. Are you ready for this challenge?
Working for our organisation
The Apollo Epic Project is a monumental healthcare initiative focused on overhauling and improving the existing healthcare information systems within a GSTt and KCH. The project's primary goal is to implement Epic, a state-of-the-art Electronic Health Records (EHR) system, to replace the existing legacy systems.
Epic is a unified and patient-centered database that brings together all of a patient's information from various departments, ensuring seamless data flow, improved patient care, and efficient operations across the healthcare spectrum. It enables healthcare professionals to have instant access to a patient's medical history, prescriptions, test results, and more, facilitating swift and accurate decision-making.
The Apollo Epic Project covers a wide range of processes from data migration and integration to staff training and support. As the name "Apollo" suggests, it's a project of significant magnitude and importance, with a mission to revolutionise the way healthcare is delivered, much like the Apollo moon missions aimed to reshape our understanding of space.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Deployment Workstream will have the exciting challenge of reflecting our future state workflows in the configuration of the system. You will be accountable for the Programme and take responsibility for the delivery against the plan and management of the Programme budget.
You will be required to provide clear direction and confident leadership and managing team progress against milestones. You will provide assurance to the Programme board that the team conforms to the design integrity of the modules.
This leadership role is pivotal to the success of the overall programme. It requires programme management experience and leadership skills.
Success in the role will require the post holder to develop credibility in the trust influence and affect change at executive, clinical and administrative levels. This will also require the post holder to be resilient and adaptable in order to deliver the programme of work successfully.
You will be required to act as an ambassador for the Trust in situations which may be sensitive and political. Importantly we are looking for people whose genuine enthusiasm in this programme which will be passed on to the rest of the staff base.
***Please see attached job description for more details***
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- Project management qualifications: PRINCE2© Practitioner MSP© Practitioner or Certificate in PPM; or APM Certificated Project Manager or PMI Project (PMP) or PMI Programme Professional (PgMP)
- Masters Degree or equivalent professional, vocational qualification and good knowledge of programme management practice supported by evidence of relevant Continuous Profession Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
- ITIL Foundation qualification Relevant/significant leadership experience in the delivery of large scale configuration management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable/ significant experience of successful Programme delivery across a large number of Programmes/Projects
- Extensive programme or complex project management experience of which 5 years were leading complex programmes involving: interrelated work streams, several companies or organisation units, a number of disciplines and the application of various project management methods.
- Extensive/proven experience of developing long term strategic plans which involves cross organisation impact using appropriate methodologies eg PRINCE2©
- Experience of successful direct and matrix management of several staff from own and supplier departments or organisations, including appraisal, coaching and the application of related personnel policies
- Demonstrable experience of making significant judgements involving highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis and interpretation from a range of options
Desirable criteria
- Good knowledge of an Acute / Primary Care Trusts clinical and corporate administrative systems
- Experience of delivering projects within in a major programme framework (like NPfIT)
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to make clear rational decisions, exercising independent judgement in a profession and competent manner
- Confident, robust and resilient and with the drive to complete Ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to manage differing views in order to achieve change and improvement
- Well organised with a professional approach Capable of independent judgement
- Ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project team
- Ability to plan and schedule complex resourcing models
Desirable criteria
- Specialist in at least one of Lean Thinking; Six Sigma; BPR; or Systems Thinking
Personal style and behaviour
Essential criteria
- Has the gravitas/ credibility to work with all levels of Trust management.
- Credible opinion former with strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Thrives on the pressure of delivery
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Harger
- Job title
- Head of Programmes (Outpatients)
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Yasamin Omary
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