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Job summary

Main area
Trust Strategy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working (mix of site & home))
Job ref
234-24-C0141
Employer
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
Town
Norwich
Salary
£70,417 - £81,138 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
22/05/2024

Employer heading

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Programme Manager (Major Projects)

NHS AfC: Band 8c

At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team. 

NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.

Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:

People-focused

We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.

Respect

We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.

Integrity

We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.

Dedication

We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.

Excellence

We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital. 

Wish you were here? So do we.


We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be.  We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.


At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.

Job overview

NNUH has a vacancy for a highly motivated, senior programme professional to join the Trust’s Major Projects Team.

This is a demanding role leading large and complex programmes in line with corporate strategy and capital programme. You will work with senior users and stakeholders to agree programme objectives, appraise delivery options, and prepare Green Book compliant business cases. In addition, experience of programme and project delivery and closure is desirable.

The ideal candidate will have strong commercial skills and significant healthcare infrastructure and facilities programme and project experience. You should be able to evidence significant achievements and be comfortable in working in a large and complex organisation.

In return we can offer you a role with a great deal of variety, autonomy and personal support and the chance to work on a range of exciting programmes that will make a real difference to patients.

You will be expected to champion the NNUH PRIDE values.

This is an integral role to the successful delivery of the Trust’s future ambitions, so if you have the relevant experience, ability and knowledge, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal chat to find out more about the role, please contact Julia Kazimierczak, NNUH Head of Major Projects and N&W DAC Programme Director email: [email protected] 

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Interview date: 22nd May 2024

Main duties of the job

Programmes of work for this role range from business case development and delivery of major managed service contracts to large internal estates reconfigurations. 

Until its completion in February 2025, a key area of focus for this role will be the N&W Diagnostic Assessment Centres delivery as part of the Community Diagnostic Centres programme, across Norfolk and Waveney.  Working in conjunction with the neighbouring Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn and James Paget University Hospitals in Great Yarmouth as a senior member of the Programme Management Office the post holder will be required to manage and monitor the associated projects and workstreams, reporting as defined to internal and external stakeholders.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a nationally recognised £85.9m transformation programme, the largest capital investment in the N&W ICS in the last 20 years.

The opportunity to work across a Programme and influence and support delivery of this major scheme across three trusts.    

Be a key member of a team, influencing, supporting and reporting decision-making on a high-profile programme.   

Working for our organisation

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

  • Flexible working hours
  • Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
  • Multi Faith prayer room
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
  • Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
  • Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
  • Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
  • On-site Nursery
  • On-site cafes offering staff discounts
  • Support in career development
  • Flexible staff bank
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead the development of strategic business cases, working closely with internal and external advisors, delivering innovative and transformational programmes of work at NNUH and across N&W Trusts.

Lead large and complex programmes in line with corporate strategy, standards and ethos, working with senior users and stakeholders to agree and specify the project objectives and deliverables, from Business case through to programme and project delivery and closure.

Deliver efficient, high-quality, strategic programmes and projects, capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the Trust and wider N&W ICS. Develop best practice for organisational change with clear accountability and governance arrangements, in line with the Trusts and NHS standards.

Continue to develop the ICS partnership by creating innovative solutions to the N&W Trust’s key constraint issues of capacity and service delivery across the region. Liaising closely with N&W Trusts and external agencies to ensure their requirements are fully understood throughout all programmes of work.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.

Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master’s or professional qualification e.g. Procurement or finance or equivalent experience
  • ‘Managing Successful Programmes’ Practitioner level

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience of financial procedures including budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
  • Experience in process development including Change, Risk Management, Governance and Assurance

Experience

Essential criteria
  • workload, appropriately direct others and adjust plans as required both in the short and long term

Attitude & Aptitude

Essential criteria
  • Effective leadership skills with a strong drive for service improvement.
  • Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
  • Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesStonewall Health ChampionsMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerNHS Pastoral CareStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Julia Kazimierczak
Job title
Head of Major Projects
Email address
[email protected]
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