Assistant Director Transformation Portfolio / Senior Manager

We are looking for an experienced assistant programme director to join us, the role is to support the oversight of the trust wide delivering value programme and associated transformation PMO. The post holder will manage a portfolio across the Trust / Collaborative and with our partner organisations, to ensure delivery of improvements required in a collaborative, efficient, effective, and timely manner with buy in from the various stakeholders. It is expected the post holder will have the experience, skills, and ability to manage and successfully deliver the multiple programmes that sit within a portfolio at any one time. The post holder will understand and contribute towards Trust / Collaborative for their allocated portfolio, whilst improving processes, outcomes, quality and address inequalities for both staff and service users. This is a corporate role, and it is expected that the post holder will work flexibly across the Trust / collaborative and with key partners as required by the portfolio or as directed by the Programme Director / Director of Strategy and Partnerships and participate in on call rotas. Main duties of the job

• Lead, manage and deliver a portfolio of Trust / collaborative wide Transformation programmes to ensure plans are robust and sufficiently detailed to provide the assurance that delivery will result in service quality improvement and efficiency savings.
• Work closely with the named Senior Reporting Officer (SRO) & other Transformation Specialists, and the relevant PMOs to ensure all portfolios and programmes of work are co-ordinated, complementary and understand any co-dependencies.
• Develop and initiate new projects including the support and development of effective project documentation and management for any programme within the portfolio including Project PIDs, Business Cases, Project Plans, Workbooks, risk and issue logs and the formation of Project Steering Boards and teams.
• Manage, monitor, report and track the progress of portfolios and programmes, ensuring that the intended benefits are achieved with outcomes maximised.
• To design, undertake and evaluate complex surveys, audits, and service reviews to establish baseline data for current transformation programmes / projects, or to assess and if required build the case for new ones.
• Successfully manage expectations on portfolio and programme deliverables, working alongside key stakeholders to understand and interpret potential constraints / risks to programme
• Delegate portfolio / programme work effectively and ensure that this is completed as required within the agreed timescales.
Working for our organisation Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). High Cost Area Supplement This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT. Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT :
• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term / chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers.
This has resulted in us being recognised as a Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.