# Head of  Programme Management (Quality and Clinical Governance)

**Company**: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: Harrow
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £85641.00 to £97746.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Head of Programme Management (Quality and Clinical Governance) to lead the Trust-wide implementation, stabilisation, and optimisation of Ideagen. The successful candidate will operate at a senior level, leading complex service change and improvement, and providing dedicated programme leadership to complete implementation, resolve outstanding configuration and data issues, embed consistent governance workflows, and support staff to use the system confidently.

The post holder will work closely with the Trust's Transformation programme and oversee projects commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Quality and Clinical Governance, prioritising Ideagen delivery in partnership with the Director of Quality and Clinical Governance, relevant executive sponsors, and APG programme leads. The role requires practical knowledge of clinical governance as well as programme management, ensuring that technical implementation supports safe operational processes and reliable assurance.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the Trust-wide Ideagen implementation programme, including stabilisation of live modules, final configuration, future phases, and system optimisation

- Developing and maintaining an integrated delivery plan covering scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and acceptance criteria

- Providing evidence-based assurance to programme sponsors on progress, readiness, risks, and benefits

- Working with corporate and divisional leaders to agree priorities, new ways of working, user structures, permissions, and reporting responsibilities

- Leading role-based Ideagen training, super-user networks, and user support, monitoring adoption and addressing gaps

The Trust runs major acute services at Northwick Park Hospital, St Mark's Hospital, Ealing Hospital, and Central Middlesex Hospital. As a university teaching NHS trust, it plays an important role in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

**Salary:** £85,641 to £97,746 a year PA

**Job Requirements:**

- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area or equivalent experience

- Management qualification

- Extensive experience of leading large-scale digital or clinical governance system implementation and service improvement

- Experience of validating organisational structures, data migration, user permissions, and reporting outputs

- Ability to lead a complex system implementation through stabilisation and optimisation, manage interdependent workstreams, and secure sustainable adoption during change and transition

- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious concepts to large groups

## Skills

### Required
- programme management
- clinical governance
- Ideagen implementation
- service improvement
- data migration
- user permissions
- reporting outputs
- complex system implementation
- stabilisation and optimisation

### Nice to have
- NHS quality, safety and governance systems
- Datix or another legacy governance system
- cross-Trust implementation
- supplier management

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