Job vacancy: Programme and Business Change Manager, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Pencoed, Bridgend

Job summary

Main area

Business & Projects

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

12 months (1 x Fixed Term/Secondment post for 12 months, ending February 2026 to cover secondment.)

Hours

Full time
Flexible working
Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday (with an expectation to work from the office 1-2 days per week))

Job ref

028-AC438-1224

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bocam Park
Town: Pencoed, Bridgend
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/01/2025 23:59

Programme and Business Change Manager

Band 8a

Welcome to Public Health Wales, the national public health organisation for Wales

Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales

To find out more visit Public Health Wales and watch this video about our Strategic Plan

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure highly effective communication mechanisms and processes are in place to negotiate and consult with Executive Directors and senior clinicians in all settings to achieve demonstrable and measurable service change and redesign.

Provide leadership in planning, setting timescales, managing project milestones and overall successful project open to completion for specific projects within own portfolio.

Lead and develop complex projects from start up to close including developing and managing the implementation of the project to include initiation documents, driver diagrams, measures and operational definitions.

Able to undertake complex presentations to a range of stakeholders on the scope, content and timescales associated with projects within own portfolio to Health Boards, Welsh Government, Stakeholder groups.

Create, monitor and review all project factors including finance, staffing requirements, project resources, and project risk ensuring appropriate project governance is in place.

Responsible for creating and maintaining the project planning, including project reporting, monthly highlight reports, updating the risk logs and producing exception reports for the Planned Care Strategic & Operational Group and Planned Care Board

Manage delivery of individual projects against agreed milestones, budget and timelines with demonstration of success and outcome measures

Support and lead the development of business cases; co-ordinating business requirements; business process mapping and support and/or manage the process of technical design, build, testing & assurance within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.

Review highly complex statistical, usage or deployment data and analyses the data accordingly. Identify strategic or operational requirements from the analysis and take the appropriate action. Ensure that all opportunities are identified for data to provide guidance or decision making.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Relevant Masters degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent demonstrable level of experience, knowledge and skills
Evidence of continuous personal development
Management qualification or equivalent experience
Excellent specialist experience in delivering large scale change projects.
Knowledge of RTT or Diagnostic waiting times and performance measures
Knowledge of hospital-based operational planned care services
Knowledge of programme management methodology

Desirable criteria

Formal project management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of improvement projects with operational and clinical teams
Experience and specialist knowledge of NHS Wales and the environments in which Health Boards undertake activity and planning processes.
Experience of managing projects involving clinicians and a history of successful engagement with clinical leaders
Experience of leading and implementing change within a service

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

Experience of working within a PMO function
Experience of establishing new services
Experience of working operationally within or in association with a service delivering diagnostic or treatment services for Cancer or RTT patients
Able to write and present complex information to a range of stakeholders.
Excellent organisational skills
Evidence of effective team working with multiple multidisciplinary teams
Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of our workplace values, together with the underpinning behaviours identified for success in this role.

Desirable criteria

Welsh Language Skills are desirable at levels 1 e.g. introduce yourself, greet someone in person, answer the phone with a Welsh scripted greeting.

Other

Essential criteria

Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.

Public Health Wales, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our Trust who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.