Job summary
We are looking for an experienced programme manager with service management experience to lead a portfolio of projects to improve services for people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in Greater Manchester and across the wider north of England. Funded through NHS England's National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, these will support digitally enabled individualised care plans, an innovative hyper acute pathway for patient in vaso occlusive crisis and enhanced community provision to enable early discharge and improved after-care.
Main duties of the job
The role will be responsible for:
- Establishment of programme governance
- Ensuring production and maintenance of project plans for elements of the programme
- Coordination of delivery of the projects within the programme
- Collation of monthly reports to the national SCD project team
- Provision of the agreed minimum data set for the NHIIP funded hyper acute unit pilot in GM and an additional anticipated pilot
- Evidence of KPIs for development and delivery of digital platform(s) for NW
- Ensuring uploading of SCD care plans by the specialist haemoglobinopathy teams (SHTs) in North West and North East & Yorkshire HCCs
It will involve building effective working relationships with clinical, operational, strategy and informatics colleagues, both within Manchester University NHSFT as the lead organisation and with partner trusts and ICBs in Greater Manchester and the wider north of England, together with the national team at NHS England and fellow sickle cell improvement programmes elsewhere in the country.
The role is part time, to be worked flexibly, and for up to 2 years. It is expected that the initial commitment will be up to 2 to 3 days per week, to establish the programme structure and relationships, tailing down to one day per week as earlier components are delivered.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oEducated to Master's degree level or has equitable work based experience
- oRecognised professional project man-agement qualification e.g., Managing Successful Programs (MSP) and/or PRINCE 2 or has equitable work-based experience
- oManagement/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- oEvidence of continued profes-sional development
- oSuccessful delivery and implementation of large-scale complex programmes and pro-jects across the health or social care sector
- oSignificant experience of Project and Programme Management using an established project management Methodology
- oHigh level of knowledge of clinical services with the ability to quickly understand and ap-ply innovations
- oExcellent technical and organisational skills with the ability to manage complex work-loads and multi-task in complex and sensitive environments
- oHigh level of analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to analyse highly technical & high complex data & sensitive information and make high level judge-ments including ability to responding time-ly manner to planned and unexpected de-mands
- oHighly organised with strong ability to lead and direct others adjusting plans as re-quired both in the short and long term
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oEducated to Master's degree level or has equitable work based experience
- oRecognised professional project man-agement qualification e.g., Managing Successful Programs (MSP) and/or PRINCE 2 or has equitable work-based experience
- oManagement/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- oEvidence of continued profes-sional development
- oSuccessful delivery and implementation of large-scale complex programmes and pro-jects across the health or social care sector
- oSignificant experience of Project and Programme Management using an established project management Methodology
- oHigh level of knowledge of clinical services with the ability to quickly understand and ap-ply innovations
- oExcellent technical and organisational skills with the ability to manage complex work-loads and multi-task in complex and sensitive environments
- oHigh level of analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to analyse highly technical & high complex data & sensitive information and make high level judge-ments including ability to responding time-ly manner to planned and unexpected de-mands
- oHighly organised with strong ability to lead and direct others adjusting plans as re-quired both in the short and long term
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).
