We are looking for a Delivery Programme Manager to join the Integrated Quality, Improvement and Delivery Team at North London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a high-profile role working across the organisation to support the delivery of major transformation programmes, strategic priorities and complex organisational change.
The role works directly with Executive, operational and clinical leaders to support delivery of ‘Tier One’ priority programmes and other priority initiatives approved by the Executive Team. It sits at the centre of programme delivery, governance, assurance and organisational improvement.
You will lead and support complex programmes and interdependent projects from initiation through to delivery and benefits realisation — ensuring robust programme management disciplines, governance, reporting and assurance processes are in place throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Leading and supporting large-scale transformation and improvement programmes
- Establishing robust programme governance, reporting, risk and assurance arrangements
- Developing programme documentation including business cases, scoping documents, delivery plans and benefits frameworks
- Supporting organisational change and embedding sustainable ways of working
- Working closely with Care Groups and corporate teams to strengthen programme and project delivery capability
- Producing high-quality reporting for senior leaders and programme boards, including progress, risks, dependencies and delivery trajectories
- Supporting staff development through programme management training and capability building
- Working in partnership with operational, clinical, improvement and analytical colleagues to support delivery and decision-making
- Using complex qualitative and quantitative information to support planning, improvement and delivery oversight
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
We Are Kind
We Are Respectful
We Work Together
We Keep Things Simple
We Empower
We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification. A summary of the role duties includes:
Programme and project management support across strategic improvement programmes
Supporting governance, reporting, planning and delivery oversight
Facilitating workshops, planning sessions and collaborative delivery approaches
Helping teams identify risks, issues, dependencies and mitigations
Supporting benefits realisation and improvement tracking
Using performance and quality information to support delivery and decision-making
Applying practical improvement, change and problem-solving approaches to complex challenges
Helping develop consistent ways of working, tools and delivery disciplines across programmes
