The service development, improvement and delivery function supports the Trust to realise its vision to deliver Safe, Personal and Effective care as outlined in the Trust’s Strategy and medium-term plan. The team support the development of clear plans and their delivery through its improvement practice and programme delivery approach.
The purpose of the Programme Management (Delivery) post is to support delivery and provide assurance on Key Delivery and Improvement Priorities and Programme across the Trust, strengthen accountability across the Trust for the Executive team and Board.
The post holder will focus on a portfolio of projects and programmes that are considered to be critical to the delivery of the Trust’s strategic objectives providing a level of transparency in support of the Trust’s established governance and accountability processes.
The post holder will hold a portfolio of high-profile projects and programmes, some of which with direct project management responsibility, with which they will ensure there is effective governance to support delivery. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership and constructive challenge to colleagues on delivery, best practice and benefits realisation.
As part of the Service Development, Improvement and Delivery team, the post
holder will establish standards of best practice in project/programme
management. They will be required to provide assurance that significant
projects/programmes are effectively established with clarity in alignment to
programmes utilising an improvement approach, governance arrangements,
timelines, resource requirements, risks, benefits and outcomes. The post holder
will be responsible for establishing constructive challenge to develop these
standards.
To manage a portfolio of projects and programmes, providing assurance on their
governance and delivery. For the majority of these, the post holder will have no
formal authority but work alongside the sponsors and managers to support
delivery. In the main, most of these projects will be managed within the
Divisions hence sponsors are likely to be the Divisional Directors of Operational
and Directorate Managers.
Provide formal project management leadership to specified projects as required,
ensuring project initiation, governance and delivery is managed as per Trust
standards.
Lead change management work to enable front line teams to understand and
diagnose issues to develop effectively solutions. Provide continuity in leadership
to support management of change working with clinicians.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a well-performing Trust and continues to make good progress in its financial recovery journey.
The Trust is in a fortunate position with a well-established improvement practice, led by the Improvement Hub Team and effective Service Development and Strategy development function overseen by the Service Development Team. The Programme Management Office was established in 2025 and we are now bringing these teams together into one function to support the delivery of the new Trust Strategy.
This is an exciting time to join the Trust as we progress our improvement journey.
The main duties are described above. Please refer to the detailed job description for further details.
