Lincolnshire Adult and Older Adult Community Mental Health Transformation Programme is an exciting and innovative programme of work which seeks to enable transformational change in community mental health services, applying a Trauma Informed Care approach to embed new ways of working that promote self-efficacy, provide high quality specialist care, and develops an accessible and integrated continuum of care benefiting people and their communities.

We are looking to recruit to an enthusiastic and motivated Programme Support Officer on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the delivery of a variety of transformation projects, making a real difference to patient's outcomes and experience.

As a key member of the team that is leading out the programme and working closely with the transformation programme leads, you will be required to provide project leadership and oversight to a variety of programme areas and via contractual processes ensure the commissioning intentions of the transformation programme are transacted and delivered.

Main duties of the job

It is essential that you can demonstrate that you have the following:

Experience of leading projects with the ability to evidence your application of the various cycles of a project including, project planning, monitoring of plans to ensure the project remains on target, highlighting and escalating any issues and risks proactively.

A good knowledge, understanding and application of commissioning and contractual processes such as service specification development, contract monitoring, data and performance review and monitoring.

The ability to show your skills and capabilities around the collation, analysis, review and reporting of large amounts of service information.

Leadership qualities that enable you to provide clear direction, vision, motivate and inspire others in the undertaking of your role.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life .Visitbeinlincolnshire.com to find out more .

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be required to have a good level of interpersonal skills to communicate effectively across a variety of service areas, clinical teams, and a broad range of stakeholders, being able to build and maintain excellent working relationships, across all system partners.

If you are a team player with experience of operating as part of a busy programme management team, able to bring people together from across the health community to support close partnership working and co-production and you share our vision and values, we want to hear from you.

Previous applicants for this role need not apply and we reserve the right to refuse applications if there is evidence to show that there has been significant input from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Applications should be a true reflection of the applicant's knowledge, skills, and experience.

For an informal conversation about the role please contact Eloise Thompson, Line Manager (eloisethompson@nhs.net 07814 930 600), Sara Brine (sara.brine1@nhs.net 07748 154278) or Victoria Sleight (victoria.sleight@nhs.net 07989 851742).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications at degree level through formal qualification or equivalent experience supported by extensive CPD portfolio
• Further training or significant experience in project and contract management,financial management and supporting change management processes.

Desirable

• Evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

Essential

• Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health and/or social care services.
• Experience in contract management, including performance management and quality assurance
• Relevant previous work experience within a comparable role
• Recent previous experience of working with people with lived experience
• Previous experience of leading defined projects
• Previous experience of working within one or more of the following areas mental health services, community/primary care, prescribing, long term conditions, financial planning, developing plans to deliver national and local priorities.
• Partnership working - building effective relationships with different groups (internal and external) and partner agencies/ organisations.

Desirable

• Working in the NHS or other statutory organisation environment.
• An appreciation and understanding of issues facing the NHS at local and national level
• Project management skills.

Skills

Essential

• Excellent IT skills, including all Microsoft office programmes

Desirable

• Database skills
• Project Office Skills

Special requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel to locations across the county

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Saxon Court, St George's Hospital Site

Long Leys Road

Lincoln

LN1 1FS

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