About this role
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Improvement Delivery Team as a PMO Lead. You would provide senior strategic leadership and coordination for portfolio management across the organisation to support the delivery of priority projects and programmes across multiple improvement portfolios, with a significant focus on the successful delivery of our financial efficiency programme. Our team delivers high quality improvement support to Trust priorities including urgent and emergency care, outpatients, theatres, efficiency and neighbourhoods.
You will join an existing thriving team that has a track record of delivering tangible improvements to performance and outcomes for our population. You would be responsible for establishing and maintaining appropriate governance and risk management structures, policies, processes and templates to support effective best practice project and programme management delivery. You would have a clear approach to tracking the delivery of benefits, including significant financial savings, and undertaking quality impact assessments of any efficiency plans.
You will be experienced in improvement and project management approaches, have significant experience of leading a large PMO function, and have a track record of establishing and maintaining good relationships to deliver sustainable change programmes across complex pathways with multiple stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
Working with the Associate Director - Improvement and Transformation, they will develop the organisation's approach to the interpretation and use of key improvement, project and change management methodologies.
The postholder will ensure that systems are in place to identify, prioritise and track all projects and programmes and that this tracking is kept up-to-date. They will provide assurance to internal and external stakeholders and be able to provide an overview at any point in time of which projects and programmes are being undertaken and what the delivery status is of each of them, including key risks and issues and their mitigations. They will provide mechanisms for identifying and managing interdependencies between different projects and programmes.
The postholder will support the Associate Director - Improvement and Transformation to allocate appropriate resource to each project and programme and will maintain a system for tracking resource allocation. They will support the Associate Director - Improvement and Transformation in the development of a competency framework for project and programme roles.
The postholder will provide updates and high-level communication at a strategic level to Programme Directors / Senior Responsible Officers, governance groups and stakeholders. They will also develop plans to integrate programme outcomes into business as usual. The postholder will design and deliver training in agreed methodologies to staff and patients.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for the design and delivery of portfolio management approaches for the delivery of priority projects and programmes including appropriate governance and risk management structures, policies, processes and templates to support effective best practice project and programme delivery
Provide tools for the appropriate tracking of projects and programmes including both human and financial resource
Provide corporate leadership and support to design and deliver a series of specific projects and programmes from start to end, ensuring they align with agreed organisational, system and national strategic priorities.
Support project and programmes managers to deliver projects and programmes using analytical and issue-based problem solving, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and improvement / change management methodologies.
Ensure that clinical, professional and patient engagement is central to the delivery of all project activities.
Play a leadership role alongside other senior colleagues in the implementation of standardised improvement, project and change management methodologies across the trust which will deliver the key priorities outlined in the Trusts improvement and change strategy.
Support the Associate Director Improvement and Transformation to develop a competency framework for project and change management and in the implementation of this
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent ability
- Formal education to first degree level or equivalent ability
- Project management qualification or equivalent ability
- Improvement qualification or equivalent ability
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience in healthcare or a transferable environment where change management skills have been required in the post
- Significant experience in project management delivery with evidence of autonomously leading and delivering large scale improvement projects and tangible benefits including financial benefits
- Significant experience of leading a PMO function requiring the coordination of multiple projects and programmes and regular tracking and reporting of delivery and risks
- Significant experience of modelling complex data sets, including financial data sets, and providing clear and comprehensive outputs
- Significant staff management experience, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues
- Significant budget management experience, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action
- Evidence of report writing and presenting skills, to include business cases and formal presentations
- Developing and delivering strategic plans to include tangible delivery of benefits realisation plans, including financial
- Management of change and improvement and the use of tools and methodologies
- Familiarity with basic IT applications
Desirable
- Experience in financial management
- Experience of working in an operational role
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham (Catford)
London
SE13 6LH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)