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Job summary

Main area
Programme Management
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
21 months (Fixed term contract to 31st March 2026)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Primary work location will be Bristol royal Infirmary, Southmead Hospital and remote/home working. May require working across University Hospitals Bristol & Weston Trust, and North Bristol Trust sites.)
Job ref
387-TS-6776-JC
Employer
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bristol Royal Infirmary / Southmead Hospital
Town
Bristol
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/05/2024 23:59

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Programme Manager

Band 8b

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We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

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Job overview

Are you a highly motivated and hardworking Operational or Programme Manager? Would you like to help shape how our 2 Trusts work together to deliver high quality, seamless, equitable and sustainable care to the population of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire? 

If the answer to the above is YES then we invite you to consider this exciting Programme Manager role. This role is hosted by UHBW as part of the Acute Provider Collaborative between NBT and UHBW. You will work across NBT, UHBW and the wider system. 

As a Programme Manager in the Acute Provider Collaborative, this role will be responsible for the delivery of clinical and corporate collaboration programmes between NBT and UHBW. 

As well as supporting multiple programmes of improvement work, there will be plenty of scope to ensure your personal development needs are met.

Main duties of the job

  • The post holder will be responsible for the oversight and delivery of a programme of work designed to support the APC and BNSSG Integrated Care System Approach. This role will manage a programme of complex projects to deliver service change through collaboration and partnership.
  • The work will be co-ordinated using a shared framework for project and programme management that will be developed collaboratively with partner organisations to deliver strategic priorities. 
  • The role demands experience of large scale change programmes, working with senior practitioners and managers, to deliver extensive system change across the Acute Providers and wider BNSSG ICS footprint. As well as demonstrating technical programme management and improvement skills, the individual will be expected to offer innovation and creativity to the projects to fully support the project and programme outcomes. 
  • The role must provide expertise and leadership to manage effective working relationships in the team, and be active in motivating and inspiring staff to produce their deliverables to the required standard and within budget.  
  • The programme manager will need to be politically astute and strategically aware to successfully oversee service reconfiguration and redesign. They will need to be able to manage multiple stakeholders and generate improvement opportunities, using their experience to influence teams to work in new ways.  

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd June 2024.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Masters degree level or evidence of equivalent professional qualification/or experiential learning.
  • Programme and project management training (preferably MSP/PRINCE) or equivalent experience.
  • Evidence of continuous personal/professional development.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of managing programmes, preferably within the NHS
  • Evidence of leading challenging change projects within a complex environment
  • Experience managing and resolving conflict during times of significant change
  • Involvement in service redesign projects that delivered quantifiable improvement.
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
  • Experience of managing and motivating a team
  • Experience of analysing very complex issues from multiple data sources where evidence can often conflict
  • Benefits Realisation experience
  • Knowledge of health policy and key improvement initiatives to support the strategic priorities that inform the development of the local Integrated Care System
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a mixed economy of partners from a public or private sector context.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Highly effective communication skills to develop and deliver performance improvement plans with key stakeholders
  • Strong leadership qualities with the capability to lead by example and inspire others
  • Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
  • Ability to establish collaborative working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
  • Able to think strategically and to analyse complex issues/data to formulate conclusions
  • Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, whilst working to tight and often changing timescales
  • Ability to work collaboratively across the BNSSG STP to implement a programme of system wide change.
  • Presentation, facilitation using service improvement tools.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sufi Husain
Job title
Head of Programmes
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07387064649
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