Job summary
- Main area
- Improvement
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 10 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-SS0806
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Improvement Manager - Programmes
Band 8b
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Job overview
KMMH is embarking on its biggest improvement journey and working alongside our system colleagues we are shaping the agenda of care for Mental Health, learning disability, and autism across the county.
This Senior Improvement Programme Manager role is an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team to deliver an agenda and really make a difference to our patients, services users, carers and our people.
Main duties of the job
This is a 10 month contract to deliver a range of strategic programmes as part of our 'Doing Well Together' improvement programme including the integration of our new Mental Health Together model.
- Support the Programme Director to determine resource requirements and negotiate the provision of resource with the sponsor and other senior managers and provide ongoing management of resources.
- Implement a time bound management approach, including the articulation of the delivery roadmap for programmes.
- Underpin change initiatives with appropriate documentation including charter, project plans, risk and issues registers, benefits realisation documentation, and other associated relevant documentation.
- Support and coach senior managers, clinicians and project teams in articulating and utilising project/programme management methodologies to implement change.
- Communicate the progress of improvement initiatives.
- Deliver projects/programmes to the agreed quality standards, to time and cost and in accordance with the Trust’s project management framework and processes.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience
- Accredited Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma/ Continuous Improvement or demonstrable experience at equivalent level
- Accredited in another programme or project management
Desirable criteria
- Coaching Qualification
- Training Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of successfully delivering major organisationwide and multi-agency transformation and/or quality improvement redesign projects that have significant financial investment in complex and challenging environments
Desirable criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Horizon Scanning
- Multi-Partner Working
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Nystrom-Marshall
- Job title
- Head of Improvement Programmes and Projects
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07871001002
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