NHS North East North Cumbria ICB is a key part of the NHS in our region, working to improve the health of our local population and ensure that all patients can easily access the care they need quickly and easily when they need it.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Programme Manager to work as a key member of the ICB's Dental commissioning and contracting team whose overarching goal is to deliver an exciting and challenging primary care dental commissioning and transformation programme across the North East and North Cumbria. As Programme Manager, you will work as part of a dynamic team and support the delivery of transformation projects and flexible commissioning aligned with directorate priorities determined by the ICB 5-year plan across the NENC footprint.
This is a challenging commissioning portfolio including local strategic objectives and initiatives to deliver local ambitions and national targets. The post holder will deliver long-term solutions to improve health outcomes, improve services and tackle areas of underperformance. The post holder will need to take a whole systems approach working across organisations in NENC.
The post holder has managerial responsibility for the identification of service improvement opportunities and development of service and pathway redesign projects aligned to the delivery plan, ensuring that inter-dependencies with key stakeholder transformation programmes are understood and meet the needs of the local populations. This role will require regular travel across the NENC ICB area. The post holders base can be agreed, this will be a hybrid role.
About us
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high-quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including promoting the integration of health and care services, improving people's health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks, which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative, too, including the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Job description
Job Responsibilities
The Programme Manager's key responsibilities include:
- Leading business improvement projects, transformational change programmes, contract and business process reviews and dental procurements.
- Supporting the ICB to improve health outcomes for residents through the development and implementation of health and care strategies that address both national and local ambitions and priorities.
- Coordinating, developing, and driving the delivery of core national priorities, ensuring strong relationships.
- Ensuring effective management and delivery underpins leadership of the transformation portfolio and delivery of priority areas, work streams and management of resources and performance.
- Monitoring, interpreting and quality assuring progress against deliverables adopting a PMO approach.
- Overall management responsibility for designated programmes.
- Acting as a key interface between multiple organisations and stakeholders engaged in transformational change.
- Ensuring a positive and supportive team culture that encourages partnership, collaboration and integration across health and social care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
- Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
- A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
- A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of areas and services with specific insight into commissioning
- A proven track record of implementing and overseeing improvements in performance and standards of care and delivering change within an organisation.
- A proven track record of transformation, planning and delivery across a range of areas and services with specific insight into commissioning.
- A wide range of improvement tools and approaches.
Desirable
- Whole systems management
- Project management qualification, e.g. Prince 2
Experience
Essential
- Significant health care experience is essential, with a demonstrable track record of success in NHS organisation.
- Experience in the management of multi-project programmes of work
- Experience in effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level
- Experience in developing programme or project plans across multiple partners and stakeholders, achieving consensus and managing successful delivery
- Experience in performance management approach, including analysis of data and performance reporting.
- Knowledge and experience of staff line management.
- Experience in managing relationships with stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of working within financial budgets.
Desirable
- Experience in commissioning and oversight and assurance / regulatory organisations
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
North East & North Cumbria ICB
Address
Stella House / Pemberton House
Goldcrest Way / Colima Avenue
Newcastle Upon Tyne / Sunderland Enterprise Park
NE15 8NY
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