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Programme Lead - Work Well Partnerships Programme

Job details
Posting date: 03 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £70,417 - £81,138 per annum (pay award pending)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 03 October 2024
Location: PRESTON, PR1 8RL
Company: NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6532385/125-ICB092-24

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Summary

A Vacancy at NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.


This vacancy is only open to candidates who are internal to the ICB or work for one of the following councils to apply:

Westmorland and Furness, Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire County Council, Burnley, Preston, West Lancashire, Lancaster City.

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has made a successful bid to join a major national vanguard focused on the issue of Work and Health. Over the next 18 months and working with key partners including local councils, businesses and voluntary groups, we are aiming to make a success of the Work Well Partnership Programme, supporting 5000 residents to sustain themselves in work or return to work after a period of ill-health.

We are therefore looking for a highly effective Programme Lead to ensure our partnership delivers successful outcomes from this opportunity.

Ensure smooth and successful delivery of the Work Well Partnership programme by fulfilling the following key responsibilities:
• Support the SROs for this programme to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
• Identify key deliverables for the programme, milestones and outcomes and produce a schedule for delivery, in conjunction with the leads in each of the 7 localities.
• Lead the coordination, development, preparation and implementation of programme and project plans to agreed milestone delivery dates, resolving issues, and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
• Set up and plan the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function and any project teams, including project documentation.
• Ensure that financial reporting and governance of the programme is discharged effectively by the ICB, within the terms of the national grant agreement for Work Well.
• Maintain the programme governance arrangements to ensure a robust audit trail of project outputs, outcomes, and benefits.
• Support the development of a wider strategy for Work and Health under the auspices of the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICP -this will draw direct learning from the Work Well programme.

The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022.

Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets a positive experience from treatment. We also oversee how money and resource is utilised to ensure that funding is spent to ensure health services are effective, consistent and of high standard.

This role is fundamentally about partnership working between the NHS, local councils, employers and community organisations.

Programme Management
• Have responsibility for the successful delivery of the Work Well programme from the current process of mobilisation through to closure.
• Lead the coordination, development, preparation and implementation of programme and project plans to agreed milestone delivery dates, resolving issues, and initiating corrective action as appropriate
• Contribute to effective information management within the team, in conjunction with the Data Lead.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects to provide advice and support to colleagues working in each locality
• To progress actions with the project team members and produce progress reports.
• To provide project management support and expertise.



Financial and Physical Resources
• Ensure effective monitoring and control of financial expenditure for the programme in line with the national grant agreement
• Work with the programme finance lead to finalise programme budgets and ensure reporting takes place to national and regional leads.
• Ensure risk management arrangements are in place to minimise financial risks to the ICB and partner authorities
• Support and inform the requirement and targeting of resources, monitoring, implementing and evaluating projects and delivery of financial benefits and providing high quality information and analysis.
• Contribute to the financial delivery of the agreed portfolio ensuring it is delivered on time.



Staff Management
• As line manager, ensure programme team have clear roles and responsibilities with measurable objectives linked to the expectations of the Work Well programme
• Ensure appraisal and talent management arrangements are in place for programme team in line with the ICB’s corporate policies



Information Management
• Carry out timely and accurate information analysis and reporting on agreed areas of programme and present findings in an agreed manner.
• Develop and maintain databases and project management systems as required by the role.
• Maintain administrative and information resources.


This advert closes on Monday 16 Sep 2024

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