Job summary
- Main area
- Programme Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed-Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0080
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Pancras Hospital, East Wing, Trust Headquarters
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 Base rate per annum (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
NCL-wide CYP Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Programme Manager to become part the core CYP Mental Health Programme Team for the North Centra London (NCL) Community CAMHS Provider Collaborative. The NCL Community CAMHS Provider Collaborative is a partnership between the four main NHS providers of community mental health health services across the 5 boroughs of NCL:
• North London Foundation Trust
• Royal Free London NHS Trust
• The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
• Whittington Health
Building on progress made in collaborative working in the last two years, the four NHS Trusts in NCL agreed took the decision to build on this progress and formalise our collaborative working with the development of a Community Provider Collaborative. As part of the ongoing development of this relationship and the formal establishment of NCL ICS, we are now seeking to put in place more formal arrangements, to deliver the ICB’s expectations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will report to the Director of Transformation and work in a matrix way with project managers and relevant leads across the four member Trusts. They will use their programme/project manager skills to ensure the Collaborative has a robust programme structure in place with regular reviews and reporting.
Whilst supporting the overall programme structure the post will also manage individual projects ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and on budget. The role includes managing the programme governance working with the Director of Transformation, Operational Board and delivery groups in setting priorities, workstream monitoring and supporting programme documentation such as risks and issues logs
The post will support Provider Collaborative colleagues in undertaking specific pieces of work to enable and deliver integration, unblocking barriers and enabling transition to new service models; supporting meaningful business cases where resources are needed to enable integration and transformation. It will enable effective stakeholder management across different organisations and at all levels, maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and exceptional Senior Programme Manager to hold the strategic lead role in respect of Children and Young People's Mental Health, supporting the delivery of the strategic vision and the priorities for the North Central London CAMHS Transformation in line with the CYP Mental Health Core offer model and ambitions of establishing a Provider Collaborative.
You must have comprehensive knowledge of Children and Young People's Mental Health, with a strong understanding of and experience in the commissioning cycle alongside advanced co-ordination, leadership, management, communication and interpersonal skills that enable them to promote and further the work of the partnership across a wide range of stakeholders. You will hold a pivotal role in respect of Transformation on pathways and place development connected to the priorities of the NCL Providers, and will work at Place as well as across north central London, the provider Collaboratives, local government and with other system partners as appropriate leading for your designated area.
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, and will develop subject matter related relationships, convening a range of internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to ensure delivery in their area and to provide information and analytical advice and expertise.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Relevant master’s qualification or significant experience as an operational or strategic manager in a relevant field
- Project management training or qualification
- Evidence on ongoing CPD activity
Desirable criteria
- Quality Improvement training or qualification
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication skills both written (complex report writing) and orally including presentation / facilitation skills.
- Good leadership skills – with the ability to direct, challenge and facilitate to deliver results.
- Ability to create a clear project plan and prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Ability to build and manage good relationships among stakeholders build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the programme as required.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous NHS experience in a senior leadership role
- Project/Ops management experience
- Experience of successfully developing collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sisa Moyo
- Job title
- Director of Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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