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Programme and Transformation Manager
Closed for applications on: 26-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 26-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Home 7, Blackpool Victoria Hospital,
- Address
- Whinney Road
- Town
- Blackpool
- Postcode
- FY3 8NR
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Programme Management
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The role will lead significant programmes of transformation.
The post holder will need to be flexible and support one or more of the Trust’s work areas within any of the Trust’s large and complex portfolios of Transformation, providing leadership and guidance to areas of service improvement, redesign projects and programmes of work, designed to deliver the Trust’s Strategy, quality and/or financial and operational targets for our people and population.
As a senior member of staff, you will be expected to represent the Transformation Team in forums such as Committees, the Executive Team Meetings, Senior Leadership Team Meetings and Programme Board meetings. You will be required to deliver persuasive presentations, influencing stakeholders during the process of change, and convey complex information in an articulate manner within papers and reports as required.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering specific programmes, using appropriate tools and techniques which facilitate the delivery and realisation of business plans, strategic objectives, and the achievement of the Trust’s strategic ambitions.
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Provide leadership, facilitation and support to business-critical projects and programmes, to achieve successful development and delivery of strategic aims.
Work areas may include (but are not limited to):
- Trust transformation and transition activities
- Initiatives for promoting quality in all areas of Trust business
- Initiatives for maximising efficiency, productivity, and value for money
Complete a programme level plan, with associated project plans, for each programme of work.
Produce highlight reports, papers and other documents associated with programme and project management, utilising a variety of tools and information resources.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will support Trust staff to be able to:
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Generate and deliver programme and project plans, achieve objectives, and realise associated benefits.
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Utilise appropriate programme methodology to focus change and improvement initiatives to meet the healthcare needs and expectations of the local population.
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Measure, monitor, report and evaluate the progress of their projects and programmes of work assuring timely delivery whilst maintaining a sustainable, safe, and effective service.
Work within programme and project management framework, such as MSP and PRINCE2.
To manage resources, people, and deadlines to deliver key milestones on time and to plan.
To manage key operational and strategic relationships with staff and external organisations.
To lead the implementation of new models of care and patient pathways within any specialty involved with the project.
To guide and lead clinical teams to deliver transformational change.
To write business cases to the required organisational standard.
To execute implementation plans as set out in business cases.
To manage and lead the realisation of benefits.
To undertake and complete clear project closure documentation.
To pro-actively identify opportunities to improve quality of care and deliver financial savings without compromising quality of care, demonstrating financial acumen to assess change programmes via cost-benefit analysis in partnership with Trust finance colleagues and assess their impact on gross contribution.
To appropriately manage operational, financial and clinical governance risks.
Communication
Ensure that change programmes have communication strategies which are enacted upon.
Communicate effectively to lead change engaging a broad range of stakeholders including execs, senior clinicians and patients. This will require presentation of complex information in a variety of formats relevant to the audience.
Create, develop and deliver materials for presentations and training workshops, aligned with the Transformation portfolio.
Effective written communication to convey key messages to the relevant audience.
Promote good working relationships between the Transformation team and stakeholders.
Embed organisational capability in programme and project management across the organisation.
To have experience in and knowledge of, or the skills to quickly identify, best clinical practice in which ever clinical service the project is aligned to.
To process map current services versus ideal future state.
To undertake and work with divisional colleagues in demand and capacity analysis of services and make recommendations on the required capacity levels and service models to deliver improvements in patient care.
Analyse and generate highly complex information, evaluate options, make decisions and develop models in order to identify best practice and pragmatic solutions which drive future direction and success of ambitious deadlines for projects and programmes. This can be contentious, will require strong negotiation skills and specialist knowledge in communicating the decision taken as opinions of key stakeholders may differ.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes) or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject area, or equivalent experience
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent Communication skills including report writing, presenting and facilitation of meetings
- Strong opportunity development (can identify areas for change and convert these to reality)
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to escalate as required.
- Excellent leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust performance expectations
- Strategic planning with ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes facing competing demands
- Relationship management developing and maintaining positive business relationships with individuals inside and outside the organisation
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to identify long term goals and produce more effective and innovative service development partnerships
- Strong opportunity development (can identify areas for change and convert these to reality)
- Financial Planning and cost benefit analysis skills
- Experience and demonstrable application of a project / programme management methodology [eg PRINCE2, MSP or an equivalent]
- Good Understanding of acute trust contracts and payment mechanisms
- A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear a vision and critical path for delivery in line with programme and project mandates
Desirable criteria
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Detailed knowledge of dynamics within Acute/Community/Primary and other key stakeholder groups such as Integrated Care Board and Third Sector partners
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent IT skills including: the ability to create and handle large documents using word processing skills producing Spreadsheets and effective analysis of data and information
- Able to produce effective presentations
- Development of strategies and outline plans
- Appreciation of clinical quality standards and pathways
- Very high standard of organisational skills
- Able to train others in: Programme and Project Management Metholodologies
- Experience of delivering workshops to large groups of stakeholders
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of, capability and capacity for large scale service transformation at a senior level in a complex environment. Successful partnership
- Experience of delivering projects and programmes for services in a complex setting, including substantial experience at senior level.
- Substantial demonstrable post-graduate experience in programme management within a large/complex organisation
- Experience of engaging, influencing, collaborating with and supporting Senior and Executive colleagues
- Successful track record of financial management and achieving efficiency Savings
- Successful performance and change management record
- Demonstrable experience of, capability and capacity for large scale service transformation at a senior level in a complex environment.
- Successful partnership working in a complex environment
- Experience and knowledge of implementing project and programme management methodologies
- Experience of implementing change in line with health and social care practices and procedures in a changing policy environment
- Experience of continuous improvement using effective methodologies within a complex environment; in particular, changing working practices which result in improved patient or staff experience and/or financial improvements
- Operational Management experience, preferably within a healthcare environment
- Implementation of continuous improvement learning
- Delivery of new pathways to improve outcomes or patient experience
- Production and delivery of reports and presentations to a wide range of audiences including executives and / or in a formal public meeting
- Development of a programme vision
- Setting up new programmes including standardised set of project and programme documentation
Desirable criteria
- Process redesign skills and experience
Documents
- Programme and Transformation Manager (PDF, 640.5KB)
- Programme and Transformation Manager (PDF, 672.5KB)
- Conditions of Service (PDF, 200.4KB)
- Candidate Booklet (PDF, 786.3KB)
- Guidance on Pre-Employment Checks (PDF, 64.2KB)
- Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 43.2KB)
- Application Guide Booklet (PDF, 511.1KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly Jackson
- Job title
- Associate Director of Strategic Planning and Business Delivery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07770367195
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