Job summary
- Main area
- Programme Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-CFO-6507766-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Demand Insights Team is a small virtual team within the Chief Financial Officer Directorate. The team:
- Work with teams across NHS England to assess demand for NHS services, trends in usage and likely changes overtime.
- Identify demand trends and projections including from across other health care systems and industries and how they will apply in the NHS. This includes undertaking primary and secondary research, and may include publication of this research.
- Act in an advisory capacity across the organisation for all demand analysis across urgent and emergency care, primary care, elective care, and wider preventative care.
- Bring together and agree demand assumptions for key set piece events such as Spending Reviews and work with stakeholders to ensure these are credible.
- Synthesise evidence and information to understand and identify evidence-based interventions and their impacts on trends overtime.
- Ensure insights inform the delivery of NHS plans and development of future strategies.
- Lead and drive transformational change and service improvement at senior levels.
- Lead and coordinate teams responsible for delivering standards, guidance and outcomes to support delivery of demand influencing objectives.
Main duties of the job
The team are currently focussing on:
- Health and Work
- Mental Health
- A growing set of wider projects commissioned by the CEO and CFO and currently being scoped out.
The team consists of the Director of Demand Insights and a virtual, multi-disciplinary team of analysts working in advanced analytics, data science, behavioural insights as well as policy development and strategy professionals.
This role is a key part of the team, responsible for the management of high priority projects commissioned directly by the CEO and CFO.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for further information.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Programme and Project Management
Essential criteria
- Deliver significant programmes or group of projects for NHS England targeted at improvements in health outcomes for the public.
- Manage the whole lifecycle through to effective closure of a number of programmes relating to system change, ensuring excellent governance throughout
- Lead on change programmes and facilitate the uptake of initiatives that support and embed excellence within the health system.
Service Improvement
Essential criteria
- Be a champion for best practice, learning from experience and from others, supporting the spread of innovation within the organisation and beyond.
- Accountable for the delivery of, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
- To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England.
Analysis & Judgement
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a flexible approach to the development and delivery of new programmes where necessary within the scope of NHS England.
- Interrogate and analyse, sometimes highly complex and contentious, information to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes
- Develop key performance indicators and milestones for specific programmes and projects, managing conflicts and ensuring that interdependencies are managed effectively.
Financial Management
Essential criteria
- Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
People Management
Essential criteria
- Responsible for recruitment of new team members.
- Build a collaborative working environment and innovative culture.
Research & Development
Essential criteria
- Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.
- Promote research and development initiatives to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation or re-engineering existing processes.
Policy & Service Development
Essential criteria
- Contribute to the development of strategic processes and polices that support the embedding of project management philosophy within the wider organisation and across health and social care.
- Develop policies relating to the delivery of specific programmes, and work with team members to develop programme management policies that apply across NHS England and beyond, within the boundaries of programmes of work.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shabana Janjua
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Strategy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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