Job summary
- Main area
- Programme Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6688860-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children & Young People Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
As a Children and Young People Programme Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across East of England's Children and Young People Transformation Programme and Clinical Network.
This role will support NHS England priorities for Children and Young People in driving transformation, as well as adding value for money in planning, commissioning and service delivery.
Main duties of the job
- Delivery of work to support the Children & Young People Transformation Programme.
- Address variation and improve quality within local children and young people services especially within high areas of need and deprivation to ensure quality of access to CYP health services across the systems.
Working collaboratively with other regional clinical networks and operational delivery networks. - Delivery of work to support the development of the CYP long term conditions workstreams including asthma, diabetes and epilepsy.
- Leading on digital transformation within the CYP workstreams.
- Lead and support work to tackling inequalities and health inequalities
This list is not exhaustive and may include other projects.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To manage the planning, delivery and assurance of large scale programmes of quality improvement which supports commissioners in achieving outcome ambitions for service users. This will require strong programme and project management skills.
- To manage and maintain credibility with all the key players within the network community, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high quality care.
- To understand, communicate and implement national policy though network and regional improvement activities.
- To keep abreast of national best practice in CYP services, ensuring this is shared and widespread adoption secured through advanced influencing skills.
- Proactively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- To establish and maintain highly effective communication routes in line with the needs of the diverse range of network stakeholder interests.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Business management/administrative/programme management qualification
Desirable criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of generic patient experience research
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Has knowledge and experience of service improvement methodologies and improvement tools, underpinned by theory
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
Skills and Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Arrowsmith
- Job title
- Head of Children & Young People Network
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866344047
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