Head of Programme Management Office

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group comprises Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. With a budget of over £800 million and with over 11,000 staff, we operate two hospitals, several community services, and serve a population of 900,000 people across Northamptonshire.It is an exciting time to join us as we set out to focus on our three priorities to improve UHN as a place to receive care, to improve UHN as a place to work and to meet our financial targets.Within the Continuous Improvement Directorate, the Programme Management Office (PMO) is responsible for providing the support and expertise required to ensure the successful delivery of all programmes associated with our strategy, including ensuring that there is robust governance and management of the efficiency and cost improvement programme.The Head of the Programme Management Office will lead the PMO Team to ensure the delivery of the portfolio of work across UHN, including the delivery of the strategic priorities. The post holder will report to the Director of Continuous Improvement and will be responsible for providing leadership to the Programme Management Office function and team, provide advice and subject matter expertise in project and programme management best practice, tools and techniques.Key Functions Of The PMO Will Be ToManage the strategic priority and transformation portfolio including key decision-making timelines, ongoing prioritisation and resource allocation;Support, coach and challenge sponsors and workstream leads to deliver their strategic priority programmes and transformation initiatives against objectives rapidly;Manage and run the ongoing benefits realisation process on behalf of the Trusts;Quality assure strategic and transformation initiatives and act as a supportive yet challenging independent reviewer of programmes;Set up and run an effective monitoring and reporting process to provide a single source of truth for the Integrated Leadership Team on the progress of strategic priorities and associated strategic deliverables and transformation programmes;Develop and maintain programme-level plans construct critical paths spanning the portfolio and work with our Health Intelligence team to report against key performance indicators, developing processes to gather, analyse and interpret data and information for programme management purposes;Manage the PMO for the UHN / UHL Collaboration Programme;Develop and implement a process to ensure risks, dependencies and interdependencies are managed, reviewed and mitigated appropriately; andDrive the use of appropriate best practice, improvement methodologies and project management tools to improve likelihood of programme delivery.Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applicationsUniversity Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group is made up of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust. Both hospitals are separate hospitals/employers with hospital board and leadership. We share an integrated executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.Our Excellence ValuesCompassionAccountabilityRespectIntegrityCourageWe want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cindy Odendaal Job title: EA to Director of Continuous Improvement Email address: Cindy.Odendaal@nhs.net Telephone number: 01536 493873