Programme Lead - Work Well Partnerships Programme

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has made a successful bid to join a major national vanguard focused on the issue of Work and Health. Over the next 18 months and working with key partners including local councils, businesses and voluntary groups, we are aiming to make a success of the Work Well Partnership Programme, supporting 5000 residents to sustain themselves in work or return to work after a period of ill-health.

We are therefore looking for a highly effective Programme Lead to ensure our partnership delivers successful outcomes from this opportunity., Ensure smooth and successful delivery of the Work Well Partnership programme by fulfilling the following key responsibilities:

• Support the SROs for this programme to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.


• Identify key deliverables for the programme, milestones and outcomes and produce a schedule for delivery, in conjunction with the leads in each of the 7 localities.


• Lead the coordination, development, preparation and implementation of programme and project plans to agreed milestone delivery dates, resolving issues, and initiating corrective action as appropriate.


• Set up and plan the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function and any project teams, including project documentation.


• Ensure that financial reporting and governance of the programme is discharged effectively by the ICB, within the terms of the national grant agreement for Work Well.


• Maintain the programme governance arrangements to ensure a robust audit trail of project outputs, outcomes, and benefits.


• Support the development of a wider strategy for Work and Health under the auspices of the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICP -this will draw direct learning from the Work Well programme.
  
  The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022.


Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets a positive experience from treatment. We also oversee how money and resource is utilised to ensure that funding is spent to ensure health services are effective, consistent and of high standard.

This role is fundamentally about partnership working between the NHS, local councils, employers and community organisations.