About this role
Job summary
The service development, improvement and delivery function supports the Trust to realise its vision to deliver Safe, Personal and Effective care as outlined in the Trust's Strategy and medium-term plan. The team support the development of clear plans and their delivery through its improvement practice and programme delivery approach.
The purpose of the Programme Management (Delivery) post is to support delivery and provide assurance on Key Delivery and Improvement Priorities and Programme across the Trust, strengthen accountability across the Trust for the Executive team and Board.
The post holder will focus on a portfolio of projects and programmes that are considered to be critical to the delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives providing a level of transparency in support of the Trust's established governance and accountability processes.
The post holder will hold a portfolio of high-profile projects and programmes, some of which with direct project management responsibility, with which they will ensure there is effective governance to support delivery. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership and constructive challenge to colleagues on delivery, best practice and benefits realisation.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Service Development, Improvement and Delivery team, the post
holder will establish standards of best practice in project/programme
management. They will be required to provide assurance that significant
projects/programmes are effectively established with clarity in alignment to
programmes utilising an improvement approach, governance arrangements,
timelines, resource requirements, risks, benefits and outcomes. The post holder
will be responsible for establishing constructive challenge to develop these
standards.
To manage a portfolio of projects and programmes, providing assurance on their
governance and delivery. For the majority of these, the post holder will have no
formal authority but work alongside the sponsors and managers to support
delivery.In the main, most of these projects will be managed within the
Divisions hence sponsors are likely to be the Divisional Directors of Operational
and Directorate Managers.
Provide formal project management leadership to specified projects as required,
ensuring project initiation, governance and delivery is managed as per Trust
standards.
Lead change management work to enable front line teams to understand and
diagnose issues to develop effectively solutions. Provide continuity in leadership
to support management of change working with clinicians.
About us
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a well-performing Trust and continues to make good progress in its financial recovery journey.
The Trust is in a fortunate position with a well-established improvement practice, led by the Improvement Hub Team and effective Service Development and Strategy development function overseen by the Service Development Team. The Programme Management Office was established in 2025 and we are now bringing these teams together into one function to support thedelivery of the new Trust Strategy.
This is an exciting time to join the Trust as we progress our improvement journey.
Job description Job responsibilities
The main duties are described above. Please refer to the detailed jobdescription for further details.
Person Specification
Education Essential
Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent demonstrable post professional registration experience. Project Management and/or Programme Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Experience Essential
Experience of change management techniques, eg. NHS Improvement methodology, Lean or SPE+. Experience of managing and completing complex projects. Operational experience of service management, including staff and budgets.
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Digitally confident with excellent IT skills and a flexible approach to learning and using new software solutions Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options using strategic and operational knowledge and experience. Able to develop long term plans for the delivery of significant projects, identifying risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies, establishing key milestones within an overall trajectory
Personal Attributes Essential
Ability to operate and influence at a strategic level, influencing senior managers and clinicians
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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Employer details Employer name East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
Blackburn
BB2 3HH
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)