Head Of Programmes

Head of Programmes (Delivery Team)

As Head of Programme within the delivery team you will oversee the performance of contract delivery for our main contract with NHS England. The post holder will be pivotal to leading a high performing team, skilled in programme management, and methodical in their approach to ensuring programme delivery. For the financial year commencing April 2024 the size of this portfolio could be 20-30 projects, within five programmes, and across 5 ICBs. The team is approximately 10 with several clinical advisors. The projects are very diverse in terms of clinical area and type of innovation, but all have an underlying aim to reduce healthcare inequalities, improve equitable access to an innovation, and/or make a tangible difference for patients and/or workforce.

It is to be expected that the post holder will take on key strategic roles on behalf of the Director of Delivery (e.g. to act as a lead for a national programme on behalf of the 15 networks, or in a lead role for a regional programme of work).  The post holder will take ownership for agreeing the delivery of projects with ICBs and our commissioner (business planning and contract specification delivery), and external quarterly reporting.

Key responsibilities

The post holder will support the Director of Delivery and wider Advisor team to ensure projects are managed effectively and be accountable on their successful delivery through:

·Providing leadership and programme oversight to the respective programme portfolio ensuring successful outcomes and delivery of projects

·Responsibility for effective delivery and oversight of all relevant projects, working closely with Advisors in a matrix structure

·Ensuring (and modelling) robust project management processes are in place for all projects including effective project governance, development and maintenance of business cases; project scopes and briefs; project initiation documents; milestones and key deliverables; risks and issues log etc

·Responsible for effective management and delivery of programme portfolio to the agree budgets, ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures relating to financial management

·Providing support to the Director of Delivery to establish effective resource utilisation processes across the organisations project delivery function

·Leading on communications and engagement activity relevant to the programmes, including liaison with regional stakeholders and system partners to raise awareness of and support implementation of the projects

·Line management of assigned Senior Advisors and Advisors as agreed with the Director of Delivery

Qualifications and training

·Degree in relevant disciple or equivalent experience

·Evidence of continuous personal development including project and programme management

Knowledge

·Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the NHS (politically, regionally and local) including commissioning, procurement, and governance

·Extensive awareness of strategic challenges facing the NHS (with a working knowledge of Eastern region preferred).

·Knowledge of the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and management of change in a complex, political, multiple stakeholder environment

·Understanding of innovation and change science, evidence and practice

Experience

·Extensive management experience across large multi-disciplinary teams

·Extensive experience of policy and procedure development

·Leadership experience including strategy development and visioning development

·Extensive experience of monitoring and managing budgets

·Experience of managing teams

·Experience in the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and management of change in a complex, political, multiple stakeholder environment

·Right to work in the UK: Applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK at the point of interview.

Personal development responsibilities

·Understanding and awareness of own personal development needs

·Maintenance of a compliant professional portfolio where required

Key relationships

Internal - all Health Innovation East employees will be expected to form key relationships within the organisation relevant to the role.

External - in addition, the successful appointee will need to develop and build relationships with external colleagues as relevant to the role. These may include, but are not limited to, relationships with:

·Industry partners including SMEs and large corporates within the health arena

·Academic partners in HEIs and Tech Transfer Offices

·Funding/investment organisations

·Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England colleagues

·Local Government.

·Integrated Care System and Integrated Care Boards.

·NHS England

·Office for Life Sciences

·NHS providers

·Third Sector Organisations

·Patient Advisory Groups/Services

·Other AHSNs

Benefits of working at Health Innovation East

As part of the benefits package, Health Innovation East’s employees are entitled to 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for less than wholetime equivalent) and are offered a company pension (employer contribution up to 10% of annual salary) as well as a cycle to work scheme. In addition, after passing probation, all employees are covered for life insurance, which also allows access to a broad well-being programme which is fully confidential.

How to apply

To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter, by 6 May 2024, to us via email specifying your motivation for applying and how you meet our person specification. For an informal discussion, please contact us via email.

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