Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our new SW Regional Performance & Delivery Unit (RPDU) team in a key role. 
With the complexity of delivering high quality healthcare, there is an increasing need for a more cohesive, proactive, and responsive delivery function to provide expert capacity and capability where needed across our region.  
The SW RPDU enables a more dynamic and focused response to existing and upcoming system, regional and national priorities. 
The need to produce, interpret and present accurate, consistent and timely data and reports, enabling the system to track its performance against plan and target, and to understand variation within systems to drive improvement, has never been greater.
The Senior Programme Manager will pick up all aspects of reporting for a key programme in the region as well as providing day to day programme management resource or expertise to  programmes as required.  The postholder will also face towards an ICB within the region, providing a helicopter view of performance and delivery across all programmes within that health and care system, allowing the region to challenge, support and hold the system to account to ensure delivery of outcomes and patient benefits.
You will work closely with colleagues across our programmes, Insights & Intelligence (I&I) and System Oversight and Co-ordination (SOC) teams in ensuring a fully aligned approach towards improving access to services for our patients.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Programme Manager will: 
•    provide oversight of regional performance against constitutional standards, agreed recovery action plans, annual operating plans and national or regional priorities
•    contribute to the annual planning round as part of the wider team, specifically on the co-ordination of the assessment and approval of performance trajectories
•    work closely with assigned programme teams to understand and report on key performance indicators that will ensure key national deliverables are achieved
•    contribute to the production of the monthly regional performance report, identifying performance outliers and recovery actions, as well as other ad hoc reports
Key Skills, Capabilities and Attributes:

•    Evidenced ability to plan and deliver programmes, projects and services on time

•    Highly developed communication skills; able to quickly analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and present to a wide range of audiences

•     Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to programme, project or service delivery

•    Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships 

•    Experience of delivering unsupervised against competing priorities and deadlines whilst also directing the work of teams/individuals

•    Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contributions of others

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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

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