Job summary
We are seeking an Ageing Well Programme Lead who will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the Lincolnshire wide Ageing Well programmes including Frailty, Palliative and End of Life, and Enhanced Health in Care Home.
These programmes will deliver the objectives outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), Lincolnshire Joint Forward Plan (2023) and System plan.
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Ageing Well strategies. The purpose of which is to bring together multiple providers from across the integrated care system to enhance proactive and preventative treatment models in the community, strengthen integration and interface and through this deliver improved patient outcomes and best use of system resource. In addition, the strategies will support the delivery of the systems' operational planning targets and address issues of variation, quality and patient experience. The Ageing Well programme manager will be responsible for the coordination of individual projects managed as part of the programme to ensure delivery of the agreed outcomes and benefits.
You will lead a team of staff as well as provide a leadership role to provider staff/team/resources assigned to the programmes of work.
You will be required to develop and promote partnership working across system stakeholders from health and care.
Main duties of the job
- Provide assurance on delivery of the Ageing Well programmes and projects objectives and benefits to Board level within Lincolnshire Integrated Community Care (ICC) and ICB and regionally to NHSE.
- Lead the Programme Steering Group using the governance structure to ensure that the work programme is appropriately monitored and managed so that the required change is delivered.
- Proactively engage with regional and national teams to 'horizon scan' for new national and local guidance and policy changes that will impact on service delivery or performance with a view to updating the ICB and system partners and reviewing impact upon existing delivery plans and priorities.
- Identify priorities and critical actions and develop detailed programme plans and critical paths which will deliver the programmes of work ensuring the programme plans are suitably ambitious, comprehensive and robust and in line with the programmes' objectives.
- Ensure that the work programmes connect to the others within the Integrated Community Care programme, and link to those in other system programmes e.g CYP.
- Manage these programme interdependencies and any conflicting interdependencies and unresolved issues within tolerance. Escalate unresolved issues to the programmes' SRO or Programme Steering Groups as necessary.
- Deliver high quality business cases, aimed at delivering the objectives of the work programmes', including financial objectives, seeking authorisation through due governance processes.
About us
Working as a part of our Primary Care, Communities and Social Value team you will actively support programme activities as part of the Integrated Community Care team.
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), is a new statutory organisation bringing the NHS together locally to improve population health and establish shared strategic priorities within the NHS.
The ICB is part of a wider Lincolnshire Integrated Care System which has four key objectives:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare.
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
- Enhance productivity and value for money.
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
By working together with the ICB, the wider system will deliver its agreed vision of 'Better Lives for the people of Lincolnshire'. Lincolnshire ICB will use its resources and powers to achieve demonstrable progress on these aims, collaborating to tackle complex challenges including:
- Improving the health of children and young people.
- Supporting people to stay well and independent.
- Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions.
- Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues.
- Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age.
- Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download the attached job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download the attached job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)
Essential
- Relevant Masters qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of a good knowledge of NHS policy and processes whether through formal qualification or equivalent experience supported by high quality CPD.
- Evidence of specialist knowledge and expertise and experience in project and programme management and their associated methodologies.
Desirable
- Project Management qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience at a senior level in a complex multi-professional organisation.
- Line management experience including successfully led a team responsible for the delivery of a programme/project to improve services.
- Significant experience of managing some or all of the following: people, projects, service change and improvement, service delivery, business management.
- Experience of developing and implementing policy
- Experience in implementing new governance arrangements and assurance processes.
- Evidence of experience in leading successful programme, project management work and implementing change.
- Experience of presenting complex information at senior level. Proven middle management experience, including ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
- Ability to deliver against tight deadlines
Desirable
- NHS or public sector management experience.
- Successfully led a team on a complex project in the NHS or a public sector organisation.
- Acted as a coach or mentor.
Evidence of Particular: -Knowledge -Skills -Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal, written, numeric reasoning and presentation skills. Excellent influencing, interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, ability to build trust and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders and with multiple organisations.Self-motivated with the ability to motivate and empower others to achieve specific goals and objectives
- Ability to learn and adapt behaviours quickly. Ability to act independently and set targets and standards for self and others. Ability to develop and apply creative solutions to system wide problems.
- Understanding of current NHS policies and strategies and to be able to forecast their impact at a local level. Knowledge of NHS HR policies.
- Self-motivated with the ability to motivate and empower others to achieve specific goals and objectives
- Political awareness and sensitivity. Determined focus on delivery and outcomes; results focused; able to turn good ideas into action to deliver results. Excellent at prioritising and delegating.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and the wider health care system.
- Knowledge of quality, service improvement and re-design improvement skills and techniques to support change Ability to plan over the short, medium and long-term timeframes.
- Highly developed communication skills, able to communicate complex matters. Able to communicate convincingly with all groups including clinicians, managers and members of the public/patients. Confident presentational skills including to large groups.
- Highly developed analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills; able to analyse and interpret numerical and written data and place them in context.
- Sound knowledge of the principles of programme and project management and demonstrate leadership of programmes/projects Thorough knowledge of corporate governance, PMO tools and SOPs, controls assurance and risk management.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of specific NHS plans, policies, systems and processes including knowledge of continuing healthcare administrative framework. .
- . Evidence of ability to develop business cases. Ability to access, manipulates, interpret and analyse complex information, make a judgement and present more than one potential option for action.
- Experience of working with the public and involvement in informal and formal consultation.
- Experience of working with the public and involvement in informal and formal consultation.
Desirable
- Commissioning knowledge in health and or other public sector organisations.
- Knowledge of NHS planning, information management systems, care pathway re-design
- An understanding of NHS finances allied to improving health outcomes.
- Financial planning, developing plans to deliver national and local health and social care priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)
Essential
- Relevant Masters qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of a good knowledge of NHS policy and processes whether through formal qualification or equivalent experience supported by high quality CPD.
- Evidence of specialist knowledge and expertise and experience in project and programme management and their associated methodologies.
Desirable
- Project Management qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience at a senior level in a complex multi-professional organisation.
- Line management experience including successfully led a team responsible for the delivery of a programme/project to improve services.
- Significant experience of managing some or all of the following: people, projects, service change and improvement, service delivery, business management.
- Experience of developing and implementing policy
- Experience in implementing new governance arrangements and assurance processes.
- Evidence of experience in leading successful programme, project management work and implementing change.
- Experience of presenting complex information at senior level. Proven middle management experience, including ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
- Ability to deliver against tight deadlines
Desirable
- NHS or public sector management experience.
- Successfully led a team on a complex project in the NHS or a public sector organisation.
- Acted as a coach or mentor.
Evidence of Particular: -Knowledge -Skills -Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal, written, numeric reasoning and presentation skills. Excellent influencing, interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, ability to build trust and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders and with multiple organisations.Self-motivated with the ability to motivate and empower others to achieve specific goals and objectives
- Ability to learn and adapt behaviours quickly. Ability to act independently and set targets and standards for self and others. Ability to develop and apply creative solutions to system wide problems.
- Understanding of current NHS policies and strategies and to be able to forecast their impact at a local level. Knowledge of NHS HR policies.
- Self-motivated with the ability to motivate and empower others to achieve specific goals and objectives
- Political awareness and sensitivity. Determined focus on delivery and outcomes; results focused; able to turn good ideas into action to deliver results. Excellent at prioritising and delegating.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and the wider health care system.
- Knowledge of quality, service improvement and re-design improvement skills and techniques to support change Ability to plan over the short, medium and long-term timeframes.
- Highly developed communication skills, able to communicate complex matters. Able to communicate convincingly with all groups including clinicians, managers and members of the public/patients. Confident presentational skills including to large groups.
- Highly developed analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills; able to analyse and interpret numerical and written data and place them in context.
- Sound knowledge of the principles of programme and project management and demonstrate leadership of programmes/projects Thorough knowledge of corporate governance, PMO tools and SOPs, controls assurance and risk management.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of specific NHS plans, policies, systems and processes including knowledge of continuing healthcare administrative framework. .
- . Evidence of ability to develop business cases. Ability to access, manipulates, interpret and analyse complex information, make a judgement and present more than one potential option for action.
- Experience of working with the public and involvement in informal and formal consultation.
- Experience of working with the public and involvement in informal and formal consultation.
Desirable
- Commissioning knowledge in health and or other public sector organisations.
- Knowledge of NHS planning, information management systems, care pathway re-design
- An understanding of NHS finances allied to improving health outcomes.
- Financial planning, developing plans to deliver national and local health and social care priorities.
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.
