Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 19 months (N/A)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (N/A)
- Job ref
- 188-THQ1011124
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Southampton
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £62215 to £72293
- Closing
- 27/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Programme Manager
8b
Job overview
The recruitment team at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS), working in partnership with the Central and South Genomics Medicine Service Alliance CAS GMSA), are delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity for a customer focussed, friendly and enthusiastic individual, as part of the expanding GMSA team.
Main duties of the job
UHS offers fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want. Development of our staff is central to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care. We can offer opportunities to develop within a supportive environment, and our staff survey results reflect our commitment to facilitate your career progression.
Based in UHS but working with the CAS GMSA team, you will be part of a team that operates across Wessex, Oxford and Thames Valley, and the West Midlands. The CAS GMSA is one of seven Alliances launched in England in January 2021. The Alliances have been created by NHS England to embed genomics into routine care across the country, ensuring equity of access and providing faster diagnoses and more effective, personalised treatment for patients. The Alliances, as part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service, will help the NHS become the first health service in the world to bring genomic testing and personalised medicine into routine care, with a key focus on improving our understanding of the underlying causes of illness to guide specific treatment options for each patient
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on site and remote working, Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Senior Programme Manager is a key role delivering the strategic aims of the Central and South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance.
Providing leadership of a defined portfolio of work across the Central and South geography, in both primary and secondary care, this exciting role will provide transformational leadership through the delivery of a defined set of actions.
This role requires the interpretation of national guidance and translating this into a defined work programme with associated line management and budgetary responsibility. The work programme comprises detailed projects that meet key requirements in the NHS Long Terms Plan as well as requirements from the National Cancer Programme.
You will be required to use complex analytical skills, tact and diplomacy across a range of work programmes and will have overall accountability for the delivery of the work programme through the line management of key individuals.
You will establish robust strategic relationships across multi professional groups, all care sectors and ICBs supporting the work programme.
Your skills will include; proven project management experience across a range of disciplines, highly developed communication and influencing skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a network.
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a health care setting.
- Member of relevant professional body – where appropriate
- Knowledge of project management /improvement skills across a range of disciplines, with a track record of managing successful change.
- Holds a relevant project management qualification (e.g. Prince2 Practitioner) or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge obtained through experience.
- Project or change management training.
- Evidence of postgraduate or continuing professional development.
- Experience at a senior level in industry or healthcare sector
- Previous experience in quality / service improvement environment.
Desirable criteria
- Coaching qualification.
- Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS and HEE agenda.
- Experience of working across organisations.
- Previous experience in or working with Health Education / Higher Education Institutes.
- Coaching and / or mentoring experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Willis
- Job title
- Genomics Innovation Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02382020842
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