Job overview

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, as the host organisation for the South East London Community Provider Network (CPN), is seeking an experienced and motivated Project Lead to oversee a major transformation programme for medical appliances for stoma care, bladder and bowel incontinence, and pelvic floor dysfunction, and wound care services across the region.

The postholder will work collaboratively with a wide range of partners including clinicians, primary and secondary care, local authorities, third sector organisations and patient forums.

This is a hybrid role with flexibility to work across sites in South East London, including our base at Pinewood House, Dartford.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have:

·       Demonstrable experience in programme or project management within a healthcare or public sector environment.

·       Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills.

·       The ability to influence and engage a wide range of stakeholders.

·       A commitment to delivering equitable, high-quality services and improving patient experience.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care