Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Pharmacy Team at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and play a leading role in delivering a portfolio of strategic pharmacy programmes and transformation initiatives that support safe, effective and high-quality patient care.
The Programme Manager will be responsible for leading the planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of complex pharmacy programmes and projects, ensuring successful delivery against agreed objectives, timescales, budgets and quality standards.
The role will focus on delivering programmes that enhance patient safety, strengthen medicines governance, improve operational efficiency and support innovation across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
- Leading complex pharmacy transformation programmes and projects
- Developing and maintaining programme plans, milestones, risks, issues and benefits realisation frameworks
- Providing programme management expertise and support to senior responsible officers and project leads
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure successful programme delivery
- Monitoring programme performance and reporting progress through appropriate governance structures
- Managing programme risks, dependencies and resource requirements
- Supporting the development and implementation of business cases and service improvement initiatives
- Ensuring programmes are delivered in accordance with Trust policies, regulatory requirements and best practice programme management methodologies
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year
- Agenda for Change pay scheme
- Band 8a
- Fixed term contract for 2 years
- Full-time working pattern
Requirements
- Educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent relevant experience
- Significant previous experience in a senior management role including either programme or project management, preferably both
- Proven track record in managing programmes and projects on time and to successful conclusions with at least three years full project life cycle experience having delivered at least two large projects to completion
- Experienced in using a PC, monitor and keyboard and MS Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
- Experience of line management of professional staff