At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic team to drive impactful healthcare transformation and waste reduction.
- Company: Join Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, a diverse and inclusive NHS organisation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible working, and real career development opportunities.
- Other info: Thrive in a supportive environment where your voice is valued.
- Why this job: Make a lasting difference in healthcare while shaping financial sustainability.
- Qualifications: Experience in leading transformational change and managing complex projects.
Help Shape the Future of Healthcare at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals! Are you ready to take on a senior leadership role with serious impact? Want to be right at the heart of one of the NHS's most vital transformations? We've got just the opportunity for you.
We are rolling up our sleeves and getting serious about financial recovery and we need someone brilliant to help lead the charge. Say hello to our brand-new Recovery Programme Management Office (PMO) - and potentially, your new professional home. We're looking for a dynamic, driven individual to take the reins of this brand-new PMO, leading the development and delivery of our most complex and critical waste reduction programme to date. Yes, the financial challenges are real - but so is the opportunity to make a lasting difference.
Main duties of the job:
- You'll be at the helm of our PMO, leading a brilliant team and managing a complex portfolio of high-impact projects and programmes.
- Driving key programmes and projects across the organisation.
- Supporting divisions to build and execute robust waste reduction plans.
- Delivering results that boost both financial health and patient care.
- Ensuring solid governance, rock-steady assurance, and impactful outcomes.
This isn't just about cutting costs - it's about smart change, sustainable improvement, and making sure every pound we spend delivers for our patients. So, if you're a seasoned programme leader with a passion for improvement, transformation, and doing things differently (for the better), we want to hear from you.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals - where challenge meets opportunity.
About us:
Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, we're all about people - and that means looking after our staff just as much as our patients. We're proud to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone's voice is heard and respected. Whether you're here to grow your career, learn something new, or take on a fresh challenge, we'll support you every step of the way with real development opportunities. And because we know life doesn't stop when your shift ends, we champion flexible working and a healthy work-life balance too. It's a place where you can thrive, belong, and make a difference - all at once.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading and managing the PMO team.
- Responsible for the management of the PMO portfolio of work.
- Accountable for the delivery of the whole lifecycle of all programmes and projects relating to the Trust's waste reduction programme.
- Develop, with other senior leaders, the strategic vision to achieve financial sustainability and develop a programme management strategy and operational policies that support this vision.
- Lead on the management of relationships with stakeholders to achieve a common purpose and realise mutual benefits across the wider health and social care system.
- Lead on the reporting of progress to the Board and Improvement and Assurance Group.
Person Specification:
Qualifications:
- Post graduate qualification in general or healthcare management, or relevant equivalent experience.
- Agile, PRINCE2 Practitioner or other relevant change qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Significant senior experience in managing major transformational change programmes and projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation.
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge and proficiency in the effective application of various best practice tools and techniques in project, programme and change management, service redesign, facilitation and service improvement.
- Experience of leading a Programme Management Office (PMO) within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service related environment.
- Demonstrable leadership through encompassing energy and involvement in planning and delivering change using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams to deliver to a high standard whilst under pressure, and when facing changing circumstances.
- Financial acumen including experience of effective budget management and control, coupled with a detailed understanding of cost improvement methodology.
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.
- Able to demonstrate a strategic understanding of the Trust, coupled with sound political awareness.
Skills & Abilities:
- Proven ability to deliver sustainable transformational change rather than just undertaking incremental change.
- Effective and adaptable influencing and negotiation skills with senior stakeholders on difficult, detailed, complex and controversial issues.
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