Programme and Innovation Manager

NHS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in North West London seeks a Programme and Innovation Manager to lead transformative initiatives across children's healthcare. The role involves collaborating with clinical teams and stakeholders to enhance mental health support and improve care pathways. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree, experience in managing complex projects, and strong analytical skills. This position offers career development opportunities and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Optional benefits like Cycle to Work and leisure memberships

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects.
• Knowledge of health research methods and systems thinking.
• Proven experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive transformative initiatives in children's healthcare.
• Collaborate with clinical teams and stakeholders.
• Support delivery of high impact programmes.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously

Ability to prioritize workload

Competent with data analysis

Advanced Microsoft Office skills

Developed communication skills

Education

Masters Degree qualification or equivalent

Prince2 or equivalent for project management

Job description

Are you an experienced, dynamic leader passionate about transforming children's healthcare? Join West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) as a Programme and Innovation Manager and drive high-impact initiatives across North West London. You’ll collaborate with clinical teams, commissioning partners, and stakeholders to deliver innovative programmes that improve outcomes for children and young people.

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic and visionary Programme and Innovation Manager to drive forward transformative initiatives across West London Children’s Healthcare.

This pivotal role will provide a highly effective management function for programme initiatives that are facilitated by our organisation, supporting the development and delivery of high impact programmes that span the entire North West London region. From enhancing mental health support in acute settings to advancing care pathways in epilepsy and transition services, the post holder will take on a portfolio of highly impactful programmes that will continue to change, and work with a highly skilled MDT to shape and innovative integrated solutions that improve outcomes for children and young people.

The successful candidate will champion service improvement, foster cross organisational collaboration, and ensure programmes are aligned with strategic priorities and delivered in a highly organised and timely manner.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to think laterally, build strong and trusted relationships quickly, and work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will bring a strong appetite for analytics, evidence, and learning into everything you do, and demonstrate the ability to rapidly understand new clinical and operational subjects.

In particular, you will:

• Role model behaviours that reflect our organisational values.
• Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking an annual Personal Development Review and supporting others to do the same.
• Operate confidently in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the healthcare system and demonstrating sound judgement--including seeking support when needed--and offering support and guidance to others.
• Exhibit curiosity about the work happening across the system, and actively share impactful innovations that support children and young people's care.
• Engage proactively in available project opportunities, with an expectation of contributing to project work for approximately 70-80% of your time, often working on several programmes simultaneously, and balancing short term deliverables with longer-term strategic goals. This is a guideline rather than a formal performance metric, intended to support effective workload and resource planning.

About us

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector)
• Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects

Skills and capabilities

• Ability to work autonomously without supervision, making decisions or requesting management support as appropriate
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively within a fast paced and pressured environment, and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
• Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action‑oriented conclusions
• Advanced level of working with Microsoft Office to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level

Knowledge and Experience

• Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities
• Experience in delivering complex healthcare‑related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
• Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking
• Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Experience in managing a budget
• Proven experience of establishing and leading on national strategic work in relation to policy development, operations, and systems

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.