West Kent Hcp Programme Officer

The thriving West Kent Health & Care Partnership (West Kent HCP) integration are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for a Programme Officer to join the team supporting our work.

The HCP priorities involve the full range of partner organisations and together have funded a Joint Programme Management Office (JPMO) to support delivery of the agreed programme. This post would be based in the JPMO who report to the West Kent HCP Director and will be working with the full range of partners in health and care.

This Programme Officer position will have a key role in supporting the delivery of West Kent HCP projects; assisting the West Kent HCP Head of JPMO in scoping, planning, implementing and reporting on the progress of the projects through the West Kent HCP governance structure. At present the role focuses on supporting primary care, digital and data initiatives, however as the West Kent HCP priority portfolio delivers and develops, the support focus will change in response.

The post holder will require experience in programme management and multi-disciplinary working and managing complex change and transformation programme arrangements across multiple organisations and systems.

If you have the energy, experience and capability to be part of the successful, dynamic team working with partners across West Kent HCP to deliver system improvements and changes, we would really like to hear from you.

For further details on the West Kent HCP please see the attached advert.

The Joint PMO Programme Officer has a key role in supporting the delivery of the West Kent HCP programmes and projects, assisting the West Kent HCP Head of JPMO in providing performance assurance and robust reporting to the West Kent HCP governance structure.

The postholder will ensure that standard project management methodologies are applied in accordance with the West Kent HCP Joint PMO Manual, i.e. provide high quality support in developing, maintaining and managing various dashboards, logs, plans, reports and other tools in accordance with the West Kent HCP JPMO control methodology. At present the role focuses on supporting primary care and digital and data initiatives, however, as the West Kent HCP priority portfolio delivers and develops, this will change in response.

The role will support delivery of the programmes and projects, as well as highlighting testing and challenging where necessary and escalating risks, issues and obstacles to the Executive Sponsor and Overall Programme Lead as required, including development of any recovery plans.

The post-holder will be expected to work closely with the West Kent HCP Director and Executive Sponsors, Overall Programme Leads and programme/project groups, linking in with relevant partners and organisations - finance, IT, procurement, Business Improvement and communications leads as necessary to ensure projects are monitored and quality and/or value benefits are reported in order to gain evidence for assurances purposes.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and serv