Programme Manager

Job Description

Role:

Programme Manager
Salary:

circa £54,000 – £57,000 per annum
Benefits:

Include flexible working and 33 days annual leave per annum + UK Bank Holidays (please see our career site landing page for full details of employee benefits)
Hours:

1.0 WTE / Full-time, 37.5 hrs per week (part-time will be considered)
Contract:

12 months fixed-term contract basis or NHS secondment, only, at AfC Band 8a
Base:

KSS AHSNs (trading as Health Innovation KSS) primary place of business is The Beehive, located in Gatwick/Crawley, West Sussex. We have further satellite / hot-desking arrangements at sites located in Guildford and Brighton.
Location:

The role is predominately remote, although Health Innovation KSS work on a hybrid basis. The successful candidate is expected to be based in, or be able to attend meetings in the Kent, Surrey, Sussex geography.
Reports to:

Associate Director – Patient Safety

We are currently recruiting for a Programme Manager to join our dynamic Patient Safety Collaborative team to work within our

Maternity & Neonatal

workstreams and will support the wider team in enabling collective QI capacity & capability building across the Kent Surrey Sussex region.

You will work towards achieving aspects of the NHS Improvement Specification contract and network implementation plan (NIP), which is currently commissioned to March 2025 and you will be focused upon leading programmes as indicated above within that commission.

Here's a taste of what you'll do:
Be responsible for supporting the delivery of a national programme; planning and delivering specific QI and spread projects and must be comfortable using a range of improvement, scale-up and project management techniques to deliver and monitor milestones and outcomes of work.
Your work will include undertaking diagnostics, supporting small tests of change (for example with PDSA cycles) and facilitating teams to use the measurement for improvement.
To deliver regular virtual (and eventual face to face) events supporting our programmes through their improvement cycles e.g. 'Breakthrough Series'.
Create great working relationships with teams in organisations participating in Patient Safety Collaborative programmes.
Building expertise, trust and commitment to the goals of the projects and programmes within the Collaborative.
Create and exploit links between clinical teams, industry and academia wherever it aides the delivery of the project and programme goals.
Build strong relationships with other PSCs and contribute to the success of the national PSC Network.
Make a contribution to the sales pipeline through projects and programmes to generate income for Health Innovation KSS to ensure long-term sustainability.
Ensure that any risks relating to the delivery of programmes (including risks to the programme delivering within budget) are managed wherever possible and/or proactively alerted to the

Associate Director of Patient Safety

/ PSC Portfolio Lead and Chief Operating Officer.
Identify examples of best practices and solutions that can be shared and networked.

** It is strongly advised that you review the associated job description on TeamTailor (appearing at Appendix A) before making your application.**

Your skills and expertise

You'll be the right person for this job if:

A background in senior management roles and of working strategically with senior clinical leadership teams
You are interested in creating a Culture of Improvement within Clinical Environments
You have a background of clinical experience or will have had significant interaction with clinicians and health & social care systems.
You're passionate about solving problems, no matter if they're big or small; and have a strong mindset of getting things done.
You actively identify opportunities, deliver improvements, and proactively implement and follow QI project/programme management methodologies and processes.
You are great at managing expectations, as well as influencing and facilitating to ensure delivery of the highest quality service. This includes soliciting and acting upon stakeholder feedback.
You have great communication skills (verbal and written), especially when it comes to communicating and documenting programme statuses and recommendations to stakeholders and team members.

About Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN Limited (KSS AHSN), trading as Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex as of 1 October 2023, is a social enterprise: a purpose-led not-for-profit company. All its surpluses are reinvested into creating a sustainable healthcare innovation network and delivering on its vision.

Health Innovation KSS works with industry, higher education, health and care organisations across Kent, Surrey and Sussex to achieve the following goals:

Enabling the spread and adoption of innovation
Improving the quality and safety of health and care
Supporting innovators and driving economic growth

We are one of 15 Health Innovation Networks within the UK. This links us into a unique collaboration of expertise and experience. Innovation networks share learning, pool intelligence and offer access to a pipeline of emerging and proven solutions from around the country.

Equality Diversity and Inclusivity

We value and promote diversity and strongly encourage applications from people across groups that are underrepresented in our decision making, including those from ethnic minority groups and those with disabilities. We believe that the best of teams are those that reflect and are rooted in the communities they serve.
To support that, our recruitment processes are inclusive and seek to ensure that appointments are made after a fair and open process so that the best people, from the widest possible pool of diverse candidates, are appointed. Most importantly, we recognise that skills and experience can be lived as well as learnt.

Values and Behaviours

Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex has developed a clear vision for the direction of the company, in addition to an important set of values and behaviours created in consultation with the entire workforce.
Applicants and employees are expected to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to these values and behaviours, which are assessed through recruitment, selection and appraisal processes.

How to apply

Visit our Career Site / vacancies page for the full job description and details of the selection process.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 hrs on 23rd July 2024

and we aim to conduct initial remote interviews on 31st July 2024.