Programme Manager (Integrated Health & Care)

at  Lambeth Council

ABOUT US:

It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth. To deliver on these ambitions, we have embarked our transformational One Lambeth Programme ensuring we are ‘connected by purpose,’ in everything we do to deliver excellence. We are proud to have recently developed a refreshed set of One Lambeth Values and Behaviours that were develop for staff by staff; Equity, Ambition, Kindness, and Accountability. For more information, please have a look at our dedicated One Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ensure that programmes and projects are planned, managed and delivered to a high standard, so that they meet the objectives of the council and deliver outcomes for residents.
• Provide support to manage complex and strategically important programmes. Work directly with the Programme Managers and SRO to provide technical and professional advice to ensure good practice in programme management.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across the council to deliver support, advice and coaching; be able to work flexibly with a wide range of teams and programmes.
• Develop and maintain a suite of programme and project management tools and templates to support teams responsible for delivering programmes.
• Drive the development of centre of excellence for programme and project management, making advice available to all teams involved in programmes and projects.
• Provide guidance on programme and project management in relation to: defining and tracking benefits; managing dependencies; understanding internal capacity and capability and commissioning additional support; identifying, tracking and mitigating risks and issues.
• To work flexibly in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, and to participate as required in multi-disciplinary cross-department and cross-organisational groups and task teams.
• To take responsibility, relevant to the post, for ensuring that Council statutes and government legislation is upheld. This includes, amongst others; Management Compliance Charter, Environmental Policy, Data Protection Act, Race Equality Action Plan, Quality Assurance Plan, Health & Safety, Sustainable Construction and Recycling.To take responsibility, appropriate to the post for tackling racism and promoting good race, ethnic and community relations.
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  For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification in hyperlink below:
  Job Description and Person Specification

Manage the portfolio of Public Health and Social Care programmes, ensuring they are delivering according to time, quality and cost. Map and track dependencies across the portfolio, providing robust assurance around programme delivery. Coach programme managers and SROs to deliver according to the Lambeth methodology and requirements from leadership.