Portfolio Manager in Plymouth

The Portfolio Manager role is a significant leadership role that will lead the coordination, governance, and assurance of the Livewell Southwest Transformation Portfolio, supporting the delivery of a multi-year programme of change across several major programmes. We are looking for an individual with the expertise to support a wide range of health and social care clinical leaders and managers passionate about quality services for local people and families and to drive a transformation programme that will update quality services that meet the demands and expectations of our communities for the future. This role is critical to ensuring the organisations transformation ambitions are delivered safely, coherently, and in line with strategic objectives.

The postholder will work closely with Executive Directors, Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), Programme Managers, clinical and operational leaders, and external partners to ensure that all programmes and projects are aligned, prioritised, properly resourced, and delivering measurable benefits.

Main duties of the job include:

• Strategic Alignment
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Risk, Assurance & Performance
• Communication and Relationships

Please refer to the Job Description for full details, including the strategic leadership expectations, portfolio responsibilities, governance requirements, and the wider organisational impact of this role.

All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Job responsibilities include:

• Drive a culture of transformation across the organisation, modelling the behaviours and mindsets required for significant change.
• Build capability and confidence in programme and project teams, coaching SROs and Programme Managers to lead their areas effectively.
• Be responsible for managing the transformation team, allocating priorities for objectives and work roles for programme managers and project leads, and monitoring performance and resource capacity.
• Challenge thinking constructively, asking difficult questions that test assumptions and ensure rigorous planning.
• Create energy and momentum for change, helping teams navigate setbacks and maintain focus on strategic objectives.
• Identify and resolve systemic barriers to progress, escalating where necessary and proposing solutions.
• Responsible for management of information, the project management software implementation, monitoring and generating reports on performance and progress, developing, analysing and presenting their reports at Board level.
• Responsible for expenditure and monitoring on the new transformation department, transformation budget.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of portfolio-level governance, ensuring clear decision-making and escalation routes.
• Establish and maintain a report out structure quality improvement room monitoring and analysing key data.
• Maintain the integrated Transformation Portfolio plan, ensuring alignment across all programmes and priority projects and consistency of approach.
• Oversee and coordinate the Transformation Board reporting cycle, ensuring high-quality, timely assurance for the Director of Transformation, Chief Executive and the Board.
• Establish and embed portfolio-wide tools, templates, and standards (e.g., RAID logs, programme briefs, benefit maps, project pipelines).
• Identify and escalate issues to the Director of Transformation that require Executive level solution.

Person Specification:

• Required to communicate, establish and maintain relationships.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to build consensus and support matrix delivery teams.
• Manage and navigate through ambiguity.
• Demonstrates behaviours and attitudes that support LSW.
• Able to demonstrate appropriate behaviours and attitudes that contribute to an organisational culture where people/patients are at the heart of everything we do.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.