# Head of Programme Management Office - Maternity Cover > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-programme-management-office-maternity-cover/2b4c0b8a-dae1-471b-b4cc-f90a95a3955b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-programme-management-office-maternity-cover/2b4c0b8a-dae1-471b-b4cc-f90a95a3955b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Kettering - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 7 months (Ending 31st December 2026 - Maternity cover) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T10:52:37.465Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Kettering_Northampton/Kettering_General_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Programme_Management_Office/Programme_Management_Office-v7939411 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7939411?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kgh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 \[email protected\] ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Demonstrate effective analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options, coupled with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. - Able to empathise and build rapport with clinicians, front-line staff, managers and others, to influence, motivate and engage them into adopting new ways of working. - Strength of character to constructively challenge programme leads and executive SROs where areas are not delivering against project plans, key milestones and project deadlines. - Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change. - Must be able to work under pressure; prioritise a number of tasks, taking into account internal and external deadlines, escalating issues in a timely manner. - Effective and adaptable interpersonal and influencing strategies including the ability to persuade others with personal conviction and facts. - Communicate effectively to a range of groups and individuals in both verbal and written form. Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, with ability to manage varying levels of understanding. - Accurate and advanced IT/keyboard skills including producing high level reports and presentations, with significant VDU use - Ability to work across our two Hospital sites: Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital. - Proven ability to support the delivery of a programme of sustainable cost improvements. **Desirable** - Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance across the local health economy. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience in managing large portfolios, programmes and projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service related environment. - Demonstrable significant experience in providing a PMO support service within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service related environment. - Experience and understanding of a project or programme management methodology including setting project objectives; determining project scope and deliverables; developing a robust project plan; risks and issues management and monitoring and reporting arrangements. - Experience supporting teams through a process of change, sensitively managing complex issues and managing where performance has not been met, including where that is unwelcome news - Proven collaborative relationship engagement skills with both internal and external stakeholders at a senior level, including managing relationships and encouraging collaborative working between cross-functional teams, and with third parties. - Experience of analysing areas of highly complex and multifaceted activity in relation to current performance to drive opportunities for future efficiencies. - Demonstrable specialist knowledge and practical application of programme development and delivery which has resulted in measurable benefit. - Understand what comprises a robust, quality programme plan, be able to critically assess a complex plan and communicate constructive feedback. **Desirable** - Ability to lead and manage project teams and hold to account (for the purposes of project delivery) staff across a number of clinical or corporate departments. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters level qualification in general or healthcare management, or relevant equivalent experience. - Evidence of continuous professional development. - Further specialist training relevant to the role, e.g. project management qualification such as MSP Practitioner ## Documents - [head of pmo jd & ps (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10218637) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 300.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1830) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.