This is an exciting opportunity to play a role in the development and delivery of the BOB Acute Provider Collaborative (APC). The postholder will work with the APC team and key system partners to design and deliver transformation activities that will improve outcomes and value for money for our population.
The Acute Provider Collaborative is comprised of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Berkshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We aspire to reduce variation and inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; improve resilience; and deliver specialisation or consolidation where it will improve outcomes and value.
The team plays a vital role in the delivery of the APC's ambition to deliver outstanding care and support the delivery of our strategic ambitions over the next five years, including the delivery of financial savings targets. Our aim is to support a culture that promotes collaboration, inclusion and equality of opportunity at all levels.
The Programme Manager will support and lead the development, planning, delivery and monitoring of our projects and programmes, ensuring efficient and effective partnership working between the acute providers to deliver transformation of services for patient benefit.
Main duties of the job
The Programme Manager will provide programme or project management support for APC improvement and transformation schemes, supporting the planning, design and delivery of agreed outputs and working closely with trusts in a matrix structure to achieve the aims and outcomes. A number of these programmes/projects are complex, involving service redesign and organisational change.
Key responsibilities include:
1. For specific portfolios, provide oversight of key projects/programmes within the portfolio, including monitoring and reporting, escalation of key issues and risks, management of interdependencies, scrutiny of programme delivery, and support for key governance forums.
2. Drive innovation and ideas generation within the APC trusts, taking an active role in identifying and developing new schemes to deliver improvements across people, quality and money to realise sustainable improvements in quality, patient care, efficiencies and reduced variation.
3. Develop strong relationships with multiple stakeholders across the APC organisations and system, linking with internal and external expert teams, as well as drawing on the expertise from clinical areas and corporate departments across the Trusts.
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for full details on the job role and responsibilities.
This is a hybrid working role, in the office 1 to 2 days a week (with flexibility to be in the office if required for additional days for events and meetings on an ad hoc basis), and the rest of the week remote working. Visits to other sites, in particular the acute provider trusts, to facilitate collaborative working will be required.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of delivering change management projects/programmes and/or service redesign within the NHS or a comparable environment
Skills, knowledge & abilities
* Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships and be able to motivate people, at all levels of the organisation
* Ability to interpret complex/highly complex information, and make decisions based on highly complicated and sometimes incomplete information
* Up-to-date knowledge of local and national health policy and its implications within the NHS
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.
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