Job summary
- Main area
- Transformation
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 390-COR-BA-0613
- Employer
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basildon
- Town
- Essex
- Salary
- £55,690 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Programme Manager Transformation Team
Band 8a
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
Job overview
A new opportunity has opened for a talented individual to join the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Transformation Team as a Programme Manager.
If you are looking for an opportunity to use your project and improvement experience to really make a difference to the care and services we provide to our local population in Essex, then we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, individual who has a passion for improvement and change management, are able to build strong relationships and be able to enthuse staff at all levels to participate in change. You will also act as a champion and promote the use of improvement science across the organisation as a way of improving the safety and quality of the services we deliver.
Main duties of the job
You will work on specific projects and programmes; sometimes alone or with other members of the Improvement team dependant on complexity.
Working with teams throughout the lifecycle of projects/programmes to ensure that there are clears aims, key metrics identified and measured, adequate benefits tracking and realisation in place. Y
Be key in ensuring that detailed implementation plans are in place and managed, risks identified and mitigated and that business cases are completed, where required. It is also crucial that the postholder is used to using and analysing complex datasets to inform decision making on ideas such as service model design and sustainable staffing models as well as identifying the root causes to the problems being addressed.
You will have the opportunity to work across services and teams including digital services, procurement, clinical and non-clinical staff, senior managers, suppliers, other trusts and the Mid and South Essex system.
The Trust has three acute hospital sites in the Essex locality (Basildon, Broomfield and Southend), and the postholder will be expected to work flexibly across all three sites, however, you will have a main base in which to undertake your normal duties.
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Are you looking for an exciting Programme Manager Transformation Team role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of project management and business case development within the NHS or health care setting.
Desirable criteria
- Performance management experience at a senior managerial level.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to BSc level or Equivalent
- Project Management or Improvement Qualification or Equivalent experience
- Demonstrable success in the delivery of change projects and initiatives.
- Sound understanding of the complexities of an acute teaching hospital and programme.
- Experience of influencing and providing strategic advice to senior managers.
- Experience of managing project teams, including contractors achieve a successful outcome
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent knowledge and experience.
- MSP or Prince 2 Practitioner qualified
- NHS operational experience or general awareness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline Baker
- Job title
- Senior Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01245362000
- Additional information
For informal enquiries please contact [email protected]
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