Job description / guidance
KEY POINTS FOR PROGRAMME MANAGER ROLE
Key Job Specific Responsibilities
1. Manage Transforming Care delivery plans.
2. Manage the appropriate systems and processes to enable the implementation of the
strategy plans in organisations
3. Proactively manage the key risks and issues.
4. Monitor and establish the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within
agreed timescales.
5. Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
6. Manage and actively promote relationships with key stakeholders.
7. To ensure that programmes of work are supported and managed effectively and
efficiently, with the aim of improving services and outcomes for patients
8. To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to
achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across all members of the
Transforming Care Partnership
9. Lead the development and delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate,
identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options
and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
10. Take specific responsibility for providing specialist programme management expertise
through key work-streams in the delivery of the Joint Transformation Plan.
Key skills and experience
1. Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through experience or training
2. Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
3. Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information,
negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues and present
complex and sensitive information to large and influential
4. Demonstrated ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust
plans and resource requirements accordingly
5. Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques and tools such as Prince2
and Managing Successful Projects
6. Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others,
experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of individuals
7. Must be able to use own initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations
to Sponsor / manager with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
8. Effective organiser, influencer and networker
9. Completer / Finisher
10. Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation