[ref. h88857100] Women's Health Programme Manager

Job overview

This post is open for any existing employees within Lancashire and South Cumbria Trusts.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Programme Manager to join our Women's Health team. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Delivery Manager and managing programmes aimed at improving women's health services, specifically focusing on the delivery of Women's Health Hubs.

As a member of the women, children, young people and maternity team the post-holder will be expected to work with the wider team to inform and develop the ICB's strategic approach to transformation, improving quality, patient outcomes and value for money.

The post-holder will take a lead commissioning a defined statutory portfolio and project areas for the ICB and support key transformation workstreams where agreed.

To lead on performance management and system resilience within key portfolio and project areas.

To contribute to the Women's Health agenda within the ICB and at Place.

The Post holder will be required to undertake other tasks and roles when necessary as the organisation and role develops.

The post will have direct reports dependent on the lead portfolio areas, and will take line management responsibility for staff sitting in their areas of the ICB structure.

Main duties of the job

The role will be varied and will adapt over time as the ICB develops. However, the post holder is expected to fulfil the following key functions: -

• -As a Senior Programme Manager working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way.
• -To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
• - Support the portfolio of programmes/ projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
• -Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
• -Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale transformation projects.
• -Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function and any project teams, including project documentation using recognised project management methodologies.
• -Maintaining knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending.
• -Providing project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the local women’s health services and partner organisations.

Working for our organisation

The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets a positive experience from treatment. We also oversee how money and resource is utilised to ensure that funding is spent to ensure health services are effective, consistent and of high standard.

The postholder will work within the children, young people and maternity team within the nursing directorate of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.

As part of the role and function the postholder will work closely with a range of teams internal to the ICB such as safeguarding, quality, contracting, performance, and finance, and externally with local authorities, children, young people and parents and carers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• · Ensure that the Lancashire and South Cumbria Women’s health Strategy is communicated effectively internally and externally. This will involve communicating sensitive messages requiring the use of highly developed negotiating and communication skills.
• · Conveys contentious and sensitive information around service change linked to assurance and programme management roles.
• · Deliver presentations to the Women's health committees and other external and internal audiences.
• · Manages both internal and external communications with sensitivity and ensures exclusivity.
• · Takes into account patient and public perspective at all times.

• · Analyses performance and outcome data relating to the programme and the delivery of maternity and neonatal delivery plan programme milestones, risks and inter dependencies.
• · Collates and interpret national, regional and local service data to inform change strategies, providing benchmark data and implement appropriate actions and policies to meet project objectives.
• · This will require the analysis and interpretation of information and the ability to translate strategic information to operational deliverables, linked to the delivery of the national cancer transformation strategy and funds.
• · Is able to suggest pragmatic adjustment to programme and project plans based on current performance and changing priorities

• · Responsible for supporting the SRO and Associate Director in the development, delivery and implementation of the Women's health programme.
• · Deploys the skills and resources of the team flexibly to support different work streams within the programme.
• · Provides programme management support and input to work streams as required.
• · Liaises with the local delivery systems, ICB leadership, and other cross-cutting themes to develop agreed local and regional strategies to deliver maternity and neonatal service transformation.

• Interrogate current practice and support the development of new ways of working that improve the quality and effectiveness of services.
• Ensure the Women's health board is responsive to the views of local people and promotes self-care and shared decision-making.
• Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries to secure improved outcomes for patients, local communities and the wider population and make necessary arrangements to ensure the effective commissioning of services.
• Support the development of recommissioning and pathways of care across primary, secondary, and tertiary care that deliver improvements in healthcare outcomes and efficiency.
• Ensure robust performance management of services against agreed performance targets, supporting remedial action where necessary.
• Understands commissioning risk environment including understanding of the strategies that have been adopted by the ICB to manage and mitigate these risks.
• Ensure patients and the wider public are actively involved in the design of Women's health services and that this feedback is used to enhance choice, quality, and efficient service provision.

• Facilitate appropriate clinical engagement of the Women's health agenda to develop a culture that ensures a strong clinical voice and actively engages clinicians in the development of services and pathways.
• Ensure that the interests of patients and the community remain at the heart of discussions and decisions.

• The post holder will ensure that there are systems in place to support inter- organisational quality assurance and Quality improvement.
• Working with providers to tackle variation in performance and outcomes.
• Providing evidence and information that would support the identification and mitigation of risk.

• · The post holder will have a clear understanding and experience of staff and organisational development
• · Management of HR related matters in their line management role.
• · To adhere to ICB HR policies and procedures and to ensure that all staff issues are dealt with in a timely and consistent manner
• · To implement effective communication strategies and techniques with staff to promote involvement and effective decision making
• · Establish and implement an Equality Impact Assessment for all service developments

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters Level or equivalent relevant experience
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development
• Project management qualification or equivalent experience

• Formal leadership qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

• Extensive, knowledge and experience across a range of relevant areas, including, people management and programme management.
• Experience of leading major change initiatives through to successful delivery, relating to quality, cost and timescales
• Knowledge of the Women's Health strategy

• Demonstrable knowledge of planned care/primary care
• Knowledge of the policy context relevant to the commissioning and provision of women’s health services

Skills

• Ability to prepare high quality written reports and presentations for senior internal and external audiences
• Understand (and use) different forms of decision making and management styles appropriate to context
• Ability to motivate and influence others, “take people with them,” to develop shared ownership at all levels and to respond to the needs of a wider range of stakeholders

• • Ability to translate wider NHS changes to strategy