Redevelopment Programme Director - Urgent & Emergency Care

LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Programme Director to oversee critical redevelopment programmes that will improve patient care and service delivery. This role involves strategic leadership and management across two acute hospital sites, requiring a dynamic leader adept at working autonomously and building collaborative relationships.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in senior management.
• Proven experience of developing business cases.
• Experience in delivering strategic and service change at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Redevelopment Programme Plan.
• Manage interdependencies between programmes.
• Ensure the programmes are structured for successful delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Programme Management

Negotiation

Presentation

Education

Masters degree or equivalent

Project management qualification (Prince 2 or equivalent)

Design or planning related professional qualifications

LEAN training or equivalent range of SI methodology skills

Job description

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Are you a dynamic, strategic leader with a passion for making a tangible difference in healthcare? Do you have the skills to manage large, complex redevelopment programmes that directly impact patient care and service delivery?

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Programme Director to join our Redevelopment team and lead two critical Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) capital programmes at our two acute hospital sites-Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and University Hospital Lewisham in Lewisham. These are strategically important projects that will reshape our Emergency Departments and deliver lasting improvements for patients and staff across Lewisham and Greenwich.

The main objective of the role is to ensure these programmes are delivered successfully, creating the best improvements in patient care and performance across our UEC services and delivery value for money.

This is a fast paced, varied and dynamic role, managing two programmes across two sites therefore we are looking for a proactive individual, a strategic decision maker who can work autonomously, flexibly, set direction, prioritise tasks independently and build excellent working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

The post holders core responsibilities would include:
• Ensuring the programmes are structured in a way for successful delivery including defining programme governance, workstreams, deliverables, roles and responsibilities.
• Management of interdependencies between programmes and with other inflight construction and transformation programmes on the sites.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation is in place including risk register, plans, action and decision logs.
• Managing the engagement of stakeholders from within and outside of the trust throughout the programmes lifecycles.
• Day to day coordination and monitoring of programme activity
• Ensuring the programme board functions effectively and receives appropriate reports, escalations and information to make informed decisions about the programmes.

Key requirements for the role include strong programme management, organisation, and presentational and skills.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main objective of the role is to manage the program to ensure successful implementation of the Trust Strategy. This includes:

• Lead and develop the Redevelopment Programme Plan to:
  • Deliver the Estate Blueprint programme with a focus on the Urgent & Emergency Care projects
  • Develop the wider PMO function to cover all capital development for the Trust
• Working autonomously to manage the Redevelopment Steering Groups and Programme Boards.
• Ensuring managers requested to attend the Programme Board meetings are prepared and supported.
• Ensuring actions resulting from the Programme Board and Steering Groups are tracked and implemented.
• Develop business cases to deliver the projects.
• Strategically leading on the Blueprint Programme across the Trust through a 5- and 10-year strategic approach
• Post holder is advisor to the Board and will therefore work autonomously.

Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational and programme management skills.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in senior management
• Proven experience of developing Business cases, and securing approval
• Experience in developing and delivering strategic and service change at scale
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience to lead the development, implementation and delivery of systematic projects.
• Excellent leadership, influencing and motivational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively and independently without direct supervision
• Proven ability to communicate complex issues.
• Negotiating and persuasive skills
• Excellent presentation skills

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working in healthcare setting
• Previous experience of working on redevelopment or transformation programmes

Qualifications/ Training

Essential criteria

• Educated to masters degree level or equivalent
• Design or planning related professional qualifications
• LEAN training or equivalent range of SI methodology skills / training
• Project management qualification Prince 2 or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

• MSP Practitioner

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 367.5KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
• Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship Information for Applicants (PDF, 3.8MB)