Head of Programme Management Office - Maternity Cover

Job overview

This post is a fixed term contract for maternity leave cover until 31st December 2026.

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group comprises Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. With a budget of over £800 million and with over 11,000 staff, we operate two hospitals, several community services, and serve a population of 900,000 people across Northamptonshire.

It is an exciting time to join us as we set out to focus on our three priorities to improve UHN as a place to receive care, to improve UHN as a place to work and to meet our financial targets.

Within the Continuous Improvement Directorate, the Programme Management Office (PMO) is responsible for providing the support and expertise required to ensure the successful delivery of all programmes associated with our strategy, including ensuring that there is robust governance and management of the efficiency and cost improvement programme.

The Head of the Programme Management Office will lead the PMO Team to ensure the delivery of the portfolio of work across UHN, including the delivery of the strategic priorities.  The post holder will report to the Director of Continuous Improvement and will be responsible for providing leadership to the Programme Management Office function and team, provide advice and subject matter expertise in project and programme management best practice, tools and techniques.

Main duties of the job

Key functions of the PMO will be to:

• Manage the strategic priority and transformation portfolio including key decision-making timelines, ongoing prioritisation and resource allocation;
• Support, coach and challenge sponsors and workstream leads to deliver their strategic priority programmes and transformation initiatives against objectives rapidly;
• Manage and run the ongoing benefits realisation process on behalf of the Trusts;
• Quality assure strategic and transformation initiatives and act as a supportive yet challenging independent reviewer of programmes;
• Set up and run an effective monitoring and reporting process to provide a single source of truth for the Integrated Leadership Team on the progress of strategic priorities and associated strategic deliverables and transformation programmes;
• Develop and maintain programme-level plans construct critical paths spanning the portfolio and work with our Health Intelligence team to report against key performance indicators, developing processes to gather, analyse and interpret data and information for programme management purposes;
• Manage the PMO for the UHN / UHL Collaboration Programme;
• Develop and implement a process to ensure risks, dependencies and interdependencies are managed, reviewed and mitigated appropriately; and
• Drive the use of appropriate best practice, improvement methodologies and project management tools to improve likelihood of programme delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details on the post, please contact:

Becky Taylor - Director of Continuous Improvement

[email protected]

• r

Cindy Odendaal - EA to Director of Continuous Improvement

[email protected]