Are you ready to lead a large-scale clinical change in one of the UK's most dynamic and collaborative Community Dental Service (CDS) environments? This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in the development and delivery of the new West Yorkshire Community Dental Service Collaborative working with the five providers across West Yorkshire: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, LOCALA CIC, Leeds Community NHS Trust, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and Clarendon Spa.
We are seeking a motivated, talented, and capable leader to join the team as Programme Manager. You will be based with the co-ordinating provider, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, but you will work across West Yorkshire on key provider collaborative programmes aiming to improve oral care and patient outcomes.
The post holder will provide highly skilled programme management leadership to support the strategic and tactical development of the West Yorkshire Community Dental Service Collaborative.
The post holder will:
1. Provide strong collaborative engagement, working as a ‘change agent’, creating, facilitating, and embedding new ways of working with partners within the collaborative, ensuring risks and issues are proactively managed.
2. Maintain clear governance standards, putting in place best practice project and programme management principles and robust governance that provides assurance over the development of the collaborative objectives and quality outcomes.
3. Work in partnership to develop high-performing interdisciplinary partnerships at all levels so the collaborative programme momentum is maintained and issues are addressed proactively.
4. Support an improvement culture within the collaborative which promotes innovation, spotting opportunities to build wider capability to ensure efficiency and improvement remains a focus of the future West Yorkshire CDS collaborative.
5. Lead and support work with a dynamic group including service users, patients, clinicians, and colleagues across the system to deliver the objectives of the collaborative and associated projects.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
- We Care: We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
- We Listen: We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs.
- We Deliver: We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
- Increased mileage rates for > 3500.
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
- Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.
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