NHS North East North Cumbria ICB is a key part of the NHS in our region, working to improve the health of our local population, and ensure that all patients can easily access the care they need quickly and easily when they need it.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Programme Manager to work as a key member of the ICB's Dental commissioning and contracting team whose overarching goal is to deliver an exciting and challenging primary care dental commissioning and transformation programme across the North East and North Cumbria. As Programme Manager, you will work as part of a dynamic team and support delivery of transformation projects and flexible commissioning aligned with directorate priorities determined by the ICB 5-year plan across the NENC footprint. This is a challenging commissioning portfolio including local strategic objectives and initiatives to deliver local ambitions and national targets. The post holder will deliver long term solutions to improve health outcomes, improve services and tackle areas of underperformance. The post holder will need to take a whole systems approach working across organisations in NENC. The post holder has managerial responsibility for the identification of service improvement opportunities and development of service and pathway redesign projects aligned to the delivery plan ensuring that inter-dependencies with key stakeholder transformation programmes are understood and meet the needs of the local populations. This role will require regular travel across the NENC ICB area. The post holders base can be agreed, this will be a hybrid role.
About us
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Job responsibilities
The Programme Manager key responsibilities include:
Leading business improvement projects, transformational change programmes, contract and business process reviews and dental procurements.
Supporting the ICB to improve health outcomes for residents through the development and implementation of health and care strategies that address both national and local ambitions and priorities.
Coordinating, developing, and driving the delivery of core national priorities ensuring strong relationships.
Ensuring effective management and delivery underpins leadership of the transformation portfolio and delivery of priority areas, work streams and management of resource and performance.
Monitoring, interpreting and quality assuring progress against deliverables adopting a PMO approach.
Overall management responsibility for designated programmes.
Acting as a key interface between multiple organisations and stakeholders engaged in transformational change.
Ensuring a positive and supportive team culture that encourages partnership, collaboration and integration across health and social care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
* Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
* Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
* A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
* A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of, areas and services with specific insight into commissioning
* A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
* A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of, areas and services with specific insight into commissioning.
* A wide range of improvement tools and approaches.
* Whole systems management
Experience
* Significant health care experience is essential with a demonstrable track record of success in NHS organisation.
* Experience in the management of multi-project programmes of work
* Experience of effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level
* Experience in developing programme or project plans across multiple partners and stakeholders, achieving consensus and managing successful delivery
* Experience in performance management approaches including analysis of data and performance reporting.
* Knowledge and experience of staff line management.
* Experience of managing relationships with stakeholders.
* Knowledge and experience of working within financial budgets.
* Experience of commissioning and oversight and assurance / regulatory organisations
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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