Senior Improvement Programme Manager – Clinical (Theatres)
Job ref 197-RF8342 – Main area Improvement Grade 8b; Contract Secondment: 11 months (Until 1st June 2027); Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced theatres clinician (medical, nursing or AHP) to join LGT on secondment as a Senior Improvement Programme Manager – Clinical in our Improvement Delivery team. The role focuses on the Perioperative Productivity Programme to enhance productivity, experience and outcomes across the entire pathway.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Improvement Programme Manager – Clinical will provide senior strategic leadership to support the delivery of improvement and efficiency portfolios. Working primarily on one improvement programme aligned to the Trust’s strategic priorities, they will build capability and capacity in improvement, project, and change management while leveraging their clinical insight to design and deliver projects and programmes.
Key responsibilities include:
* Lead on the design and implementation of improvement programmes and efficiency schemes that deliver evidence‑based solutions to strategic priorities, including programme planning, project delivery, risk management, budgeting, business case development and benefits realisation.
* Provide corporate leadership to design and deliver specific improvement and efficiency projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with organisational, system and national strategic priorities.
* Deliver projects and programmes using analytical and issue‑based problem solving, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and improvement/change management methodologies.
* Ensure that clinical, professional and patient engagement is central to all project activities.
* Play a leadership role alongside senior colleagues in the implementation of standardised improvement, project and change management methodologies across the Trust.
* Ensure systems are in place to enable improvement information to be used effectively by the Trust Board and managers at all levels.
* Understand and interpret new strategic targets and policies relevant to the Trust at national and local levels.
* Analyse key performance data, identify areas of poor performance, and agree improvement plans with relevant teams.
* Provide regular progress reports for improvement projects and programmes, ensuring learning is disseminated and spread across the Trust.
* Set up programme and workstream plans highlighting key deliverables, milestones, roles and responsibilities.
* Set up governance arrangements and track progress against milestones to ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget, and within scope.
* Arrange workshops and meetings to solve problems and generate buy‑in to solutions.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Masters degree or equivalent ability.
* Formal education to first degree level or equivalent ability.
* Project management qualification or equivalent ability.
* Improvement qualification or equivalent ability.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
Experience
* Significant clinical experience (medical, nursing, AHP).
* Significant management experience in healthcare or a transferable environment where change management skills have been required.
* Significant experience in project management delivery with evidence of autonomously leading and delivering large‑scale improvement projects and tangible benefits, including financial benefits.
* Significant experience of modelling complex data sets, including financial data sets, and providing clear and comprehensive outputs.
* Significant staff management experience, including objective setting, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.
* Significant budget management experience, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action.
* Evidence of report writing and presenting skills, including business cases and formal presentations.
* Experience developing and delivering strategic plans, including tangible delivery of benefits realisation plans, including financial.
* Management of change and improvement and the use of tools and methodologies.
* Familiarity with basic IT applications.
* Experience in financial management.
* Experience of working in an operational role.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to an inclusive culture that supports all staff. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives aim to improve representation at senior levels, widen access, enhance the experience of staff with disability, raise EDI literacy, and mainstream equality across the Trust.
Benefits and EEO statement
We encourage all suitable candidates to apply, including those who identify as Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, with a disability (visible or not), or as LGBT+. Our professional body encourages a workforce that reflects the local communities. We reserve the right to close the post prior to the stated closing date if required.
Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: Sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.
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