Programme Manager, Children's Hospital Alliance

at  Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will lead a complex change programme across 13 children’s hospitals. The 13 member Trusts of the Children’s Hospital Alliance will be working together to improve the delivery of palliative care, pathology and cardiac surgery. The postholder will work across Trusts to develop approaches to shared working and support Trusts to implement this.
The purpose of this key role is to lead a complex change programme of work that will support and facilitate the successful delivery of the Children’s Hospital Alliance’s programme to support Fragile Services.
The role will provide deputy leadership in absence of the CHA Senior Programme Manager and will be accountable to the CHA Managing Director. The post holder will be required to work closely with, and in support of, the CHA Trust’s executive directors, divisional directors, operational managers, finance managers, and clinical leaders to ensure the maintenance of a robust programme management framework, which ensures that programme activities are well supported and have the necessary programme management to underpin delivery.
As a champion of programme management, the post holder will need high levels of self-motivation, tenacity and resilience. Success in the role will necessitate the establishment and development of strong and effective working relationships at all levels across multiple organisations, with the ability to challenge and effectively support the delivery of a complex, multifaceted programme, through the application of structured project management processes and interventions.

The Children’s Hospital Alliance brings together specialist and large children’s hospitals across the UK. We use our voice as a group of children’s providers, collaborating

• To advocate for children and young people.
• To learn from each other and innovate;
• To lead on service transformation and elective recovery, tackling health inequalities;

Through our shared work programmes we aim to improve working lives of staff and access & experience of hospital care for children, young people and their families.
The group first convened in 2016 and transformed in 2021, leveraging a £20m grant from the NHS Covid Recovery Accelerator scheme. The 10 Accelerator trusts all exceeded pre-Covid activity levels and worked together on innovation and improvement. The Paediatric Accelerator became a national case study for best practice & won the 2022 HSJ Award for Performance Recovery.
Member trusts are now self-funding a programme team to maintain momentum & realise the potential of this new collaborative way of working.
The CHA is hosted by Alder Hey and co-chaired by Matthew Shaw (CEO GOSH) and Ruth Brown (CEO Sheffield Children’s). It is run by a PMO team led by Managing Director, Alexandra Norrish (also Development Director Sheffield Children’s), supported by the senior leadership teams within member trusts. The network is growing, with 13 member trusts in England and an associate member in Wales (Cardiff).
Strategy and programme leadership
Take responsibility for developing and driving forward the fragile services programme of work in line with the CHAs priorities and objectives
Consistently questions perceived solutions to ensure other solutions and alternatives have been considered
Consistently promote meaningful engagement with service users and ensure that their voice is heard and considered when making changes
Deputise on occasion for the CHA Programme Manager and Managing Director
Develop, deliver, monitor and report progress to individuals Trust and on a national basis across the alliance , escalating risks affecting the successful delivery of the programme of work you are leading
Provide expertise in project and programme management standards and support any training required across the Alliance in relation to project management
Lead on the preparation of papers for your programme of work and present to relevant stakeholders
Consistently promote project management standards to support the successful delivery of projects, both small and complex .
Staff Management
Manage any team members aligned to your programme, allocating work, monitoring progress and providing support through objective setting, appraisal and the agreement of personal development plans.
Manage any budgets linked to programmes you are leading on effectively and in line with the hosting Trust’s financial governance framework
Corporate
To work as part of the CHA senior team to develop and implement operational plans and to contribute and participate in decision making
To work with Governors (if required) and the membership of the member Trusts to deliver agreed initiatives and implement agreed plans
To act as an ambassador for the CHA at all times and to promote the Trusts philosophy and objectives whenever appropriate while participating in the promotion of efficient and effective public relations between the member Trusts and all users of its services and those in the wider health economy
Champion equality, diversity and inclusion wherever possible and specifically with the robust use of Equality Impact Assessments for all changes.
Information and Analytics
Analysis and interpretation of potentially highly complex issues and data across a range of areas and services
Interpret national guidance, best practice and research relevant for the programme.
Financial Responsibility
Managing any budgets assigned to your programmes of work
Identifying the resources required within the CHA team and broader alliance membership to support the projects required going forward, helping to secure them through negotiation and agreement.
People Management
Provide operational management to members of your programme teams directing, counselling and motivating team members and appraising individual performance. Ensure all team members are engaged, informed and mobilised from the commencement of each programme and remain so until the programme is concluded
Role model the Alder Hey values and behaviours both individually and throughout the team.
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