Job summary
Our Improvement Team supports North Mid to achieve it strategic objectives and priorities through the delivery of programmes designed to support financial sustainability. We are looking for a motivated individualwilling to provide energy and enthusiasm to support our improvement journey. The Programme Managers are responsible for delivery of service and cost improvement initiatives. We are seeking an individual with costimprovement experience who is able to work with clinical and corporate teams in an acute hospital.
Main duties of the job
The Programme Manager will work with the Associate Director of Improvement and the senior leadership group to:
- Ensure the development and management of quality & cost improvement; programme plans, resources and assets, including finances, people and data to enable the delivery of the overall aims and objectives.
- Work proactively across the Trust to ensure operational buy-in to the improvement, including adoption of agreed targets by area, and timely completion of PIDs / quality-impact assessments.
- Ensure appropriate systems and processes are in place to enable tracking of improvement programs.
- Build clear links between the improvement programme and operational and clinical management, for effective implementation of the various strands of the improvement programme whilst avoiding the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Provide leadership, decision making, progress updates and articulate key-risks/issues in executive led workstream meetings.
*Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
About us
The Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and selection procedures and to providing a workplace where all staff are treated with respect and feel included. It is the aim of the Trust to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexualorientation.
The aim of the hospital is to provide patients and clients with the best possible care and services. In order to meet this aim, all our staff are required at all times to put the patient and client first and do their utmost tomeet their requests and needs courteously and efficiently. In order that staff understand the principles of customer care and the effects on their particular post and service, full training will be given.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to graduate level or equivalent experience, with substantial management experience
- Confidence and proficiency in use of MS Office software
Desirable
- PRINCE2 or a Programme management recognised qualification and experience in service transfoirmation or management consulting
- Operational or financial management experience, particularly in acute healthcare settings
Experience
Essential
- Understanding through work experience of acute healthcare
- Experience of delivering improvement, CIPS and Synergies
- Track record in designing, initiating and managing an improvement, CIPs programme and ability to demonstrate sustained delivery of targets
- Experience of programme management of CIPs delivery - preparing, implementing and delivering targets to time and budget
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Organisational skills - able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe to achieve results
- Presentation - presentation skills (verbal and written) to a high standard in a range of settings and at a range of levels
- Managing interaction - involves others and is able to work in co- operative teams in which group members feel valued and empowered and have shared goals
- Communication - relates and communicates with all levels and with different professions
- Analytical - ability to analyse, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative project information to a range of audiences, including use of project management tools, spreadsheets & databases.
Experience
Essential
- Ability to evaluate the impact and outcomes of improvement and CIPs schemes including ensuring that the business engages meaningfully in the quality impact assessment process
- Experience of measurement systems and understanding of the role of measurement in improvement
- Knowledge and experience of strategies for disseminating best practice and learning related to improvement, CIPs and synergies
- Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed goals
- Ability to set up tools and processes to evaluate the impact and outcomes of improvement initiatives
- Ability to learn from best practice
Desirable
- Knowledge of leading change in a clinical setting
- Experience of ensuring active patient and carer participation within development work
- Experience of using recognised quality improvement Methodology
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to graduate level or equivalent experience, with substantial management experience
- Confidence and proficiency in use of MS Office software
Desirable
- PRINCE2 or a Programme management recognised qualification and experience in service transfoirmation or management consulting
- Operational or financial management experience, particularly in acute healthcare settings
Experience
Essential
- Understanding through work experience of acute healthcare
- Experience of delivering improvement, CIPS and Synergies
- Track record in designing, initiating and managing an improvement, CIPs programme and ability to demonstrate sustained delivery of targets
- Experience of programme management of CIPs delivery - preparing, implementing and delivering targets to time and budget
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Organisational skills - able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe to achieve results
- Presentation - presentation skills (verbal and written) to a high standard in a range of settings and at a range of levels
- Managing interaction - involves others and is able to work in co- operative teams in which group members feel valued and empowered and have shared goals
- Communication - relates and communicates with all levels and with different professions
- Analytical - ability to analyse, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative project information to a range of audiences, including use of project management tools, spreadsheets & databases.
Experience
Essential
- Ability to evaluate the impact and outcomes of improvement and CIPs schemes including ensuring that the business engages meaningfully in the quality impact assessment process
- Experience of measurement systems and understanding of the role of measurement in improvement
- Knowledge and experience of strategies for disseminating best practice and learning related to improvement, CIPs and synergies
- Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve agreed goals
- Ability to set up tools and processes to evaluate the impact and outcomes of improvement initiatives
- Ability to learn from best practice
Desirable
- Knowledge of leading change in a clinical setting
- Experience of ensuring active patient and carer participation within development work
- Experience of using recognised quality improvement Methodology
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).
