Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
This job role requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual; with excellent programme management and organisational skills to assist and supports the works of Trust’s Redevelopment Programme Management Office [PMO] by providing comprehensive management of the developing major project delivery portfolio. This involves significant construction activities across both acute sites, and in the community estate, to meet strategic clinical objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to develop and manage the programme workstream and manage the projects with the support of the project officers and administrative support within the PMO. There are three themes in the Estate Redevelopment Programme, one focussed on QEH, another UHL and also the Community estate.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main objective of the role is to manage the program to ensure successful implementation of the Trust Strategy. This includes:
6. Lead and develop the Redevelopment Programme Plan to: Deliver the Estate Blueprint (construction delivery) Develop the community property estate strategy and delivery plan
7. Working autonomously to manage the Redevelopment Steering Groups and Programme Boards.
8. Ensuring managers requested to attend the Programme Board meetings are prepared and supported.
9. Ensuring actions resulting from the Programme Board and Steering Groups are tracked and implemented.
10. Develop business cases to deliver the projects.
11. Strategically leading on the Blueprint Programme across the Trust through a 5- and 10-year strategic approach
12. Post holder is advisor to the Board and will therefore work autonomously.
Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational and programme management skills.
Person specification
Essential criteria
13. Significant experience in senior management
14. Proven experience of developing Business cases, and securing approval
15. Experience in developing and delivering strategic and service change at scale
16. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
17. Experience to lead the development, implementation and delivery of systematic projects.
18. Excellent leadership, influencing and motivational skills
19. Excellent interpersonal skills.
20. Ability to work effectively and independently without direct supervision
21. Proven ability to communicate complex issues.
22. Negotiating and persuasive skills
23. Excellent presentation skills
Desirable criteria
24. Previous experience of working in healthcare setting
25. Previous experience of working on redevelopment or transformation programmes
26. •Previous experience of delivering sustainability projects
Qualifications/ Training
Essential criteria
27. Educated to masters degree level or equivalent
28. Built environment related professional qualifications (engineering, design, planning, construction management)
29. LEAN training or equivalent range of SI methodology skills / training
30. Project management qualification Prince 2 or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
31. Engineering qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
32. Understanding of the NHS Plan and National, local and strategic agenda
33. Ability to thrive in a highly complex and changing environment while maintaining purpose and direction
34. Inspirational leader who demonstrates the ability to lead and manage change
35. Committed to the continuous development of staff and self and able to demonstrate the learning that has occurred
36. Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership
37. Commitment to improving quality of patient care
38. Evidence of self-awareness
39. Evidence of integrity, objectivity and fairness
40. Comfortable with ambiguity Energy, resilience, flexibility
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.