Programme Manager, Band 8a

An opportunity has arisen to recruit a 16-month fixed term Programme Manager to join the Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust's Strategy and Transformation Team. The Programme Manager will be expected to support the Associate Director Estates in the delivery of strategic and transformational changes that support excellent care, supporting with projects and change initiatives. In delivering the 'best care for everyone', the post-holder is expected to work closely with all other members of the Trust's clinical, management and nursing teams, as well as with staff providing estates and facilities functions within Gloucestershire Managed Service (GMS) and other stakeholders across the healthcare community., The post-holder will: -

- Need to gain immediate credibility with clinical and operational leaders, as well as teams, developing and maintaining effective working relationships at all levels.

- Need to demonstrate the vision and experience of being able to deliver transactional improvement whilst considering the design and implementation of transformational ways of working in parallel.

- Need to quickly gain an understanding of clinical pathways and operational processes to assist stakeholders in taking maximum advantage of any investment and realise its benefits.

- Have the ability and experience to deliver transformational change from design through to benefit realisation, using a range of service improvement and change management tools and techniques.

- Undertake management of statutory meetings required under HTMs, including agreement on meeting content, derogation processes, annual work-plans, action planning and Trust escalation.

- Undertake management of operational issues that arise in order to liaise between Trust staff and GMS

- Support the Associate Director Estates in managing the Trust aspects of the PFI contract, including planning for hand-over

- Fulfil role of Programme Manager for projects relating to Estates and Facilities: this may be construction projects, facilities projects, equipment projects and so on. On occasions, there will also be involvement in projects where the post-holder is not the Programme Manager but represents the Trust directly.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

The post holder will be expected to work closely with clinical and operational teams to jointly design, test and embed change as a team member of the Strategy and Transformation Directorate. We are a friendly, forward-thinking team who offer a collaborative team ethic - we are involved in projects ranging from capital builds to service redesign, delivering support to the Trust on both rapid improvement work and schemes spanning multiple years. We are looking for an individual who is organised and methodical, but also adaptive and resilient as this portfolio provides diversity and challenge on a regular basis and we can guarantee no day is ever the same!