Programme Manager - Future NHS Workforce Solution
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Programme Manager to play a key role in delivering the Future NHS Workforce Solution (FWS) Programme at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Future NHS Workforce Solution is a nationally led transformation programme that will replace the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and modernise workforce, payroll, recruitment and people management processes across the NHS. As an Early Adopter organisation, Hampshire Hospitals has a unique opportunity to help shape and influence this significant national transformation.
Working closely with the Future NHS Workforce Solution Transformation Lead, the post holder will lead and coordinate local implementation activity, ensuring the Trust is fully prepared for transition to the new system. The role will involve engaging with stakeholders across Human Resources, Medical Staffing, Recruitment, Workforce Planning, Payroll, Finance, Digital and Operational services to deliver programme objectives and sustainable change.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced programme or project manager with strong change management, stakeholder engagement and delivery skills to contribute to one of the largest workforce transformation programmes currently being undertaken within the NHS.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and coordinate the Trust's implementation of the Future NHS Workforce Solution programme, ensuring delivery of agreed milestones, benefits and outcomes.
- Develop, maintain and monitor programme plans, risk registers, issue logs and reporting mechanisms to support effective governance.
- Work closely with national, regional and local stakeholders to ensure programme requirements, dependencies and timelines are understood and delivered.
- Support the redesign and transformation of workforce processes to maximise the benefits of the new workforce solution.
- Facilitate workshops, meetings and engagement events with operational, clinical and corporate teams to support programme delivery.
- Prepare high-quality reports, presentations and updates for programme boards, senior leaders and key stakeholders.
- Identify, manage and escalate programme risks, issues and interdependencies, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are in place.
- Support change management and communications activity, helping colleagues understand and adopt new ways of working.
- Monitor programme performance, benefits realisation and resource utilisation, ensuring delivery remains on track.
- Work collaboratively across HR, Payroll, Workforce Planning, Recruitment, Medical Staffing, Digital and Finance teams to ensure a coordinated approach to implementation.
- Contribute to post-implementation reviews, lessons learned activities and continuous improvement initiatives.
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
- Educated to Masters level and evidence of post-graduate qualification, or equivalent by virtue of experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Project management qualification or significant knowledge of methodologies
Experience
- Knowledge & experience of organisational change or continuous improvement
- Experience of training and facilitating group development and delivering training, education and development opportunities
- Significant experience of working in an autonomous way, working within defined parameters
- Experience of providing specialist service change and modernisation advice to a range of professionals and in various environments
- Experience of working in a change environment with multiple stakeholders, across organisational boundaries and securing their engagement
- Experience of influencing staff at all levels to ensure project objectives are owned by all members of the teams including users and stakeholders.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries and multiple services
- Significant senior experience either of clinical or supporting health services, or of IT development or operational services.
Skills
- Effective leadership and people management skills
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills in complex and contentious situations, able to engage people from a variety of backgrounds to deliver shared objectives and outcomes that gain maximum benefit
- Able to articulate a compelling vision of how things could be and might be
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Basingstoke or Winchester
Basingstoke
RG24 9NA
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/