Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview The post holder will play an instrumental role in leading and delivering the clinical transformation and improvement programme for the Children's Cancer Principal Treatment Centre. The post holder will: Work closely with the Evelina London, PTC and senior GSTT leadership teams to lead and deliver large scale and complex programmes of clinical change across the Trusts. This will involve the overarching approach to the PTC’s model of care alongside complex delivery programmes. Lead on identifying, developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships on behalf of the PTC clinical workstream. Work collaboratively across the Trusts to devise recommendations to deliver improvements on the organisations’ most important challenges and biggest opportunities in respect of the transformational change required to deliver the PTC programme. Take the lead in training and being the custodian of relevant best practice methodologies, and support others to use them. Support the PTC Programme team and relevant clinical and operational teams to ensure programmes deliver clinical, financial and experience improvements to time and pace required A key aspect of the role will be to ensure appropriate evaluation and metrics are in place to support impact monitoring and milestone achievement. Responsible for developing and implementing improvement science and programme management policy and methodology across the Programme. Main duties of the job Establish a structure and identify resources to lead the development of the model of care for the PTC at Evelina London, ensuring best use of limited clinical and operational leadership time. Lead the development and utilisation of a strategy, aims and objectives for PTC clinical delivery programmes, including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice. Lead a range of complex projects and programmes related to PTC and Evelina London services, and utilise the transformation and / or improvement science methodology(-ies) as the basis for the management of programmes through their entire lifecycle. Monitor and track project progress against the programme plan, making adjustments if targets are not met, and providing recommendations for adjusting plans, strategies or programmes to the relevant governance forum. Lead on identifying, developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships on behalf of the PTC Programme for a specific Clinical workstreams. Maintaining a deep expertise in the delivery of our clinical services in the PTC and Clinical Group. Identify and track improvement and transformation activity across the PTC and Clinical Group, supporting the management of interdependencies where required. Track the evolving need (including around capability building) for improvement, transformation and programme management support and other areas of expertise within the PTC and Clinical Group. Working for our organisation Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities. Person specification Knowledge Essential criteria Educated to masters level and/or demonstrable experience at this level Highly specialist and expert programme management knowledge acquired through a programme management qualification (such as MSP, PRINCE2, APM) or relevant experience Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development Skills Essential criteria Demonstrable experience to motivate and engage with individuals and teams and to challenge current ways of working and produce innovative solutions and ideas Ability to work flexibly in a fast-changing environment, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements. Desirable criteria Experience of managing large, multi-stranded budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management. Communication Essential criteria Excellent strategic communication skills (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change. Excellent report writing skills, with the ability to provide clear and concise management information Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to manage conflict Personal Characteristics Essential criteria Ability to plan and organise a varied workload effectively to meet deadlines in the short and long term and react to changing demands and work priorities A flexible approach to the job with the ability to listen to ideas and respond in order to develop the approach to transformation Creative, lateral thinker with an ability to generate solutions Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Further details / informal visits contact Name Anthony Wilkinson Job title Associate Programme Director Email address [email protected]