Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are excited to be hosting the South East Aseptics Transformation Programme Manager post. This is a fixed term/secondment opportunity for one year with a view to extend.
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual with experience in delivering successful large scale programmes at a strategic level. This post will work closely with NHS England colleagues and the South East Aseptics Oversight Group to lead on aseptic transformation and improvement programmes for the South East Region in line with the national programme. This involves building key relationships at senior level across systems, NHSE, ICSs, acute providers, and ICB partners in order to facilitate and mobilise change within the system.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing overall management and leadership of the South East Aseptic Transformation Programme with the aim of producing a regional strategy and plan for the transformation of aseptic services.
This role is responsible for leading the aseptic transformation and improvement programmes using the South East Programme Delivery Framework and regional approach to improvement to ensure they align with the regional governance, improvement, delivery and risk management approach. Implementing and embedding a robust programme delivery framework with a strong focus on benefits realisation.
You must be highly skilled in working with very senior leaders to deliver large scale, cross system transformational change and cost improvement schemes that involves working and bringing together a wide range of health and care teams across primary, secondary and community settings.
You will develop and oversee the direction and delivery of all project work streams, and support and enable senior managers, clinicians, partners and directors to deliver the programme. Working across the whole region you will need to have an exceptional capacity to work flexibly, at pace and manage multiple workstreams. You will need to be able to think strategically and how best to spread and scale good practice.
A key aspect of the role will be to ensure appropriate evaluation and metrics are in place to support impact monitoring and milestone achievement.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Shared Core Functions
Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.
Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance, and support as appropriate.
Working within the overall strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the strategy. Evaluate, interpret and locally implement best practice.
Ensure that approved budgets are spent effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures.
Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated.
Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required.
Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trusts stated objectives & aims.
Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.
Undertake proactive horizon scanning for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues.
Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.
Specific Core Functions
Project Management
Using the South East Programme Delivery Framework, provide programme management, leadership and expertise to the programme and individuals in the team, to deliver the objectives of the aseptics transformational programme.
Working closely with the programme SRO, team and regional multidisciplinary team to ensure the programme remains on track, identifying and proposing solutions to managing risks associated with programme delivery.
Lead the development of business cases, including feasibility studies, outline business cases (OBC), and detailed scheme designs.
Plan and organise complex, long term and often interdependent projects that form the programme.
Design, facilitate and effectively lead programme management meetings with stakeholders ensuring breadth in participation and a focus on action planning.
Working with the Programme SRO and Regional Chief Pharmacist, determine and allocate staff and other resources for the programme and individual projects, monitoring work allocation and re-allocating as necessary to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality.
Commission, plan and implement appropriate evaluation, benefits management and audit of the programme across sites and organisations.
Financial management
Ensure that programme related business plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets.
Manages budget for own area of work and multi-stranded project workstreams to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary reports.
Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage.
Lead the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project.
Deliver and oversee complex recharging arrangements across multiple organisations.
Staff and stakeholder management
Lead engagement plans for the programme to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the programme.
Lead strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians. Be able to adapt and be flexible to audience whilst delivering core content.
Use highly developed negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the programme across the breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, patients and providers.
Work closely with the Regional Delivery Unit to ensure programme approach aligns with Regional Recovery and Sustainability Programmes.
Work in a matrix management style and foster close working relations with other stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Relevant Masters MBA equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
* Managing Successful Programmes MSP to practitioner level or equivalent
* Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
* Formal qualification in Project management PRINCE 2 or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of leading successful programme and or operational performance and improvement at a strategic level including business case preparation, service initiation commissioning, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
* Extensive programme management experience in large complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
* Experience of managing large, multistranded budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
Desirable
* Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
Employer details
Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road, Cosham
PO6 3LY
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