Job summary
- Main area
- Estates & Facilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 11 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NCL-7145574-TA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maudsley Hospital
- Town
- Camberwell
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The role of the post holder will be to provide overarching programme management function into one of the Trust’s most high-profile programmes; a new clinical and research facility for children and young people (The Pears Maudsley Centre). a new adult inpatient facility (New Douglas Bennett House) and a new Urgent & Emergency Care Centre at the Maudsley site.
The Programme Manager for this post will have extensive subject matter experience in project, programme and portfolio management and governance. They will manage stakeholders up to executive level and ensure effective communication across the programme.
The post holder will demonstrate a methodical and structured approach to programme management, governance and decision making and stakeholder management to support delivery of this partnership programme.
Main duties of the job
- To lead, manage and coordinate delivery of high complex/high value programme of work, with a number of associated workstreams including the build, estates and facilities, HR, finance, communications and (clinical) operations.
- To ensure effective governance and decision-making structures are implemented and maintained, that ensure timely and effective decisions, including with partners as appropriate.
- To implement effective reporting and assurance processes.
- To facilitate effective cross workstream communications to ensure all partners are up to date on the latest programme timeline, risks, and issues.
- To identify and facilitate the timely resolution of ‘bottlenecks’ in the critical pathways of the programme, and to track and ensure owners of new deliverables and actions arising. To problem solve with workstream colleagues, negotiating resolutions to issues arising between workstreams and teams.
- To provide to agreed deadlines regular reports to the relevant Programme Boards updating on progress and requirements, and to deliver to agreed deadlines, the production of high-quality project documentation.
- To support the workstream leads, their teams and other stakeholders to manage the activities in an effective and timely manner.
- To identify risks, issues, and interdependencies between workstreams and ensure robust solutions are in place to resolve and/or mitigate these.
- To support the development of skills and abilities across the programme workstreams and wider PMO team.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
The Trust employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient, and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich.
By coming to work at our Trust, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. involved in academic research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.
The role of the post holder will be to provide overarching programme management function into one of the Trust’s most high-profile programmes; a new clinical and research facility for children and young people (The Pears Maudsley Centre). a new adult inpatient facility (New Douglas Bennett House) and a new Urgent & Emergency Care Centre at the Maudsley site.
The Programme Manager for this post will have extensive subject matter experience in project, programme and portfolio management and governance. They will manage stakeholders up to executive level and ensure effective communication across the programme.
The post holder will demonstrate a methodical and structured approach to programme management, governance and decision making and stakeholder management to support delivery of this partnership programme.
See attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree and/or Masters or Equivalent qualification. (A)
- • Project Management Qualifications e.g. Prince 2 or MSP or equivalent relevant experience (A, I)
- • Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal development. (A,I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of leading change programmes in large/complex organisations (A, I)
- • Experience and successful track record of developing and producing project plans and strategies, and complex delivery across a variety of different multi-disciplinary teams. (A, I)
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working at a strategic or project manager level in the NHS, and in a mental health environment (A, I)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Programme and project Management competencies, including well developed planning and organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. (A, I)
- Understand what comprises a robust, quality plan, be able to critically assess a complex plan and communicate constructive feedback (A, I)
- Ability to develop strong relationships with Executives, clinicians and other senior managers and teams. (A, I)
- Excellent commercial acumen that may have been developed in the private or public sectors. (A, I)
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral and including presentation skills. (A, I)
- To have strong leadership qualities, be firm minded in approach and capable of leading by example, inspiring others. (A, I)
- To have demonstrably strong influencing, negotiating and communications skills and the ability to listen and respond to the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. (A,
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and influencing skills. (A, I)
- Able to establish collaborative working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (A, I)
- Able to think strategically and to analyse complex issues. (A, I)
- Able to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision. (A, I)
- Demonstrate initiative and resilience to deal with challenges and resistance. (A, I)
- Decision-making skills, including the ability to delegate and make recommendations based on an analysis of options. (A, I)
- Ability to deliver results/project outcomes. (A, I)
- Able to work flexibly and adapt to suit the changing requirements of the project (A, I)
- Able to analyse complex data, reports and interpret statistical (including financial) data and draw conclusions. (A, I)
- Highly skilled in formulating solutions to problems and managing those solutions through to completion. (A, I)
- Must be numerate. (A, I)
Desirable criteria
- In depth understanding of how mental health hospitals work (A, I)
- • Excellent commercial acumen that may have been developed in the private or public sectors
- Working knowledge of NHS finance and accountancy (A, I)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Rachel Timperlake
- Job title
- Head of Capital Projects & Planning
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0781280902
- Additional information
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