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 South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS), jointly with King's Health Partners, has a focused Population Health and Equity Partnership which brings together a wide range of partners to create a positive step-change to embed a systematic approach to prevention and improve health equity. We are looking for a skilled and agile programme manager who is passionate about tackling health inequalities. The post holder will be responsible for overall programme management of the delivery of the SEL ICS Joint Forward Plan for Women's and Girl's Health. You will also be tasked with embedding effective programme management approaches to coordinate planning, delivery, and monitoring for the overall programme. You will be pivotal in ensuring connectivity between our work on Women's and Girl's Health and other prevention and inequalities priorities. The post holder will sit within the join ICS/KHP Population Health and Equity Team (hosted by GSTT) and engage the cross-partnership team and wider stakeholders in the development, implementation, and monitoring of work streams that support the delivery of the overall programme. Performance management and cross-system reporting of the programme learning and impact is of vital importance, given the complex stakeholder environment. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring their work streams are reporting effectively within the overall governance and reporting framework. Main duties of the job Programme manage the delivery of the SEL ICS Joint Forward Plan for Women's and Girl's Health, working with stakeholders from across the system to delivery priority actions for 2024/25, including co-design and mobilisation of at least one networked women's and girl's health hub across SEL ICS by December 2024. Support the development of the SEL Women's and Girl's Health Network. Work with key senior leads from across the SEL ICS/KHP Prevention, Wellbeing, and Equity Programme to establish and embed effective programme management approaches to coordinate planning, delivery, and monitoring for the SEL ICS/KHP programme, ensuring that the approach to Women's and Girl's Health is nestled within a holistic and systematic approach to primary and secondary prevention that takes into account the wider determinants of health. Ensure the approach to programme management and delivery builds trust and confidence within our diverse SEL communities, galvanises and makes best use of local system resources, and secures support from boards, senior managers, local politicians, and potential funders. Lead implementation of projects in line with programme objectives, reporting on progress to the programme board and other governance structures as appropriate. Develop recommendations; gain support, implement and oversee implementation of the projects, ensuring 'best value' and an outcome-based approach aligned to overall objectives. Working for our organisation Our core team coordinates and supports activity right across our SEL ICS/KHP partnership. We work closely with colleagues in our partner organisations to drive delivery of our shared mission. King's Health Partners improve health and care services by translating early scientific research, discoveries and ideas to benefit patients and our communities. We connect people and programmes across our partnership and train and develop future generations of healthcare professionals. We are building on our five-year strategy, accelerating progress in three ambitious, connected priorities: Personalised Health; Digital Health and Data Sciences; Population Health. We take a mind and body approach, integrating mental and physical health across everything we do, including addressing the inequalities in health outcomes experienced by people with mental illness. We are committed to focusing our energy in these areas, driving change through clinical academic collaboration, and improving health outcomes through sustainable system partnerships. 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 Qualifications Essential criteria Evidence of Masters degree, or other post graduate qualifications, or equivalent by virtue of experience. Experience Essential criteria Complex project management experience Experience of collaborative working across organisational boundaries and levels and with different professional groups Experience of working with and influencing senior management and clinicians. Experience of managing and monitoring financial resources and delivering projects within budget. Experience of problem solving and supporting others to develop this skill. Skills Essential criteria Knowledge and experience of completing and actioning Project Briefs, Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), Project Implementation Plans, Highlight Reports, Exception Reports, Risk Logs, and Project Closure Reports. Knowledge and experience of developing business cases and funding proposals for internal and external audiences Expert knowledge of operations and / or programme management methodologies and techniques. The skills to assess analyse and synthesise highly complex information/data from a number of sources and make recommendations, options appraisals decisions or produce reports A proven ability to manage data and information effectively within a service improvement environment 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." Further details / informal visits contact Name Hayley Ormandy Job title Programme Director Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07414297153