Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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?
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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***
Job description
Job 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***
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential
- 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
- ITIL Foundation qualification Relevant/significant leadership experience in the delivery of large scale configuration management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Specialist in at least one of Lean Thinking; Six Sigma; BPR; or Systems Thinking
Personal style and behaviour
Essential
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential
- 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
- ITIL Foundation qualification Relevant/significant leadership experience in the delivery of large scale configuration management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Specialist in at least one of Lean Thinking; Six Sigma; BPR; or Systems Thinking
Personal style and behaviour
Essential
- 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
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).
