Programme Manager
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Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Supportive team environment
- Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job overview
NHS North East North Cumbria ICB is a key part of the NHS in our region, working to improve the health of our local population, and ensure that all patients can easily access the care they need quickly and easily when they need it.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will strive for a robust approach to the delivery of health and care integration within North East and North Cumbria. The post holder will take support delivery of transformation projects aligned with directorate priorities determined by ICB 5 year plan across the NENC footprint.This is a challenging commissioning portfolio including local strategic objectives and initiatives to deliver local ambitions and national targets. The post holder will deliver long term solutions to improve health outcomes, improve services and tackle areas of underperformance.
The post holder will need to take a whole systems approach working across organisations in NENC. North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board Job Description and Person Specification. The post holder has managerial responsibility for the identification of service improvement opportunities and development of service and pathway redesign projects aligned to the delivery plan ensuring that inter-dependencies with Secondary Care, Mental Health, Maternity, Community Services, Urgent Care, Ageing Well and Children and Young Peoples transformation programmes are understood and meet the needs of the local populations.
Working for our organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas.These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Programme Manager key responsibilities include:
- Leading business improvement projects, transformational change programmes, contract and business process reviews and dental procurements.
- Supporting the ICB to improve health outcomes for residents through the development and implementation of health and care strategies that address both national and local ambitions and priorities.
- Coordinating, developing, and driving the delivery of core national priorities ensuring strong relationships.
- Ensuring effective management and delivery underpins leadership of the transformation portfolio and delivery of priority areas, work streams and management of resource and performance.
- Monitoring, interpreting and quality assuring progress against deliverables adopting a PMO approach.
- Overall management responsibility for designated programmes.
- Acting as a key interface between multiple organisations and stakeholders engaged in transformational change.
- Ensuring a positive and supportive team culture that encourages partnership, collaboration and integration across health and social care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
- Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
- A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
- A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of, areas and services with specific insight into commissioning
- A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
- A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of, areas and services with specific insight into commissioning.
- A wide range of improvement tools and approaches.
- Whole systems management
- Project management qualification e.g. Prince 2
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant health care experience is essential with a demonstrable track record of success in NHS organisation.
- Experience in the management of multi-project programmes of work
- Experience of effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level
- Experience in developing programme or project plans across multiple partners and stakeholders, achieving consensus and managing successful delivery
- Experience in performance management approaches including analysis of data and performance reporting.
- Knowledge and experience of staff line management.
- Experience of managing relationships with stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of working within financial budgets.
- Experience of commissioning and oversight and assurance / regulatory organisations
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.