Head of Capital - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job overview:

The Head of Capital post is a key member of the Capital, Estates and Facilities senior management team.

The role provides senior leadership for a portfolio of capital programmes and projects across the four Northern Care Alliance footprints of Bury, Rochdale, Fairfield and Salford including the acute and community assets.

The post holder will support the development and delivery of capital and transformation programmes and projects by delivering large scale change programmes.

The post holder will need to respond proactively to the challenges and opportunities faced by significant strategic service development opportunities within the NCA and across the Care Organisations.

The post holder will work closely with colleagues within the Estates and Facilities team as well as senior leaders across the Care Organisations and Executive Team.

Main duties of the job:

The post holder will be responsible for building and standardising robust programme and project management arrangements, which includes:

Mapping a systematic and clear approach for delivery;
Working with system partners and contractors to agree roles, responsibilities and escalation mechanisms;
Ensure that the capital programme is actively managed and that linkages between organisations, people, timescales and actions are clear;
Identifying risks and developing credible and proportionate mitigations that are agreed and owned by the most appropriate leads;
Ensure that benefits realisation is undertaken with key performance indicators developed for each programme and assessed as part of the monitoring framework;
Proactively identify issues where escalation may be required in order to unblock constraints or to overcome challenges.
Horizon scan to ensure that the post holder and the team are kept up to date with best practice and new innovative ways in project management and improvement science.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to
make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -
care,
appreciate and
inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.

The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction.

By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualification:

Essential criteria:

Master's degree or equivalent job related experience/graduate calibre
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner and/or Management of Portfolios (MoP).
Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge:

Essential criteria:

Management of capital projects
Knowledge of estates and facilities
The post holder will require indepth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines e.g. financial management, operational management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over extended period.

Skills:

Essential criteria:

Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills
Excellent organisational skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Managing Complex information and problem solving

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Project and programme management experience
Experience of managing and developing multi

- disciplinary teams

Experience of developing alliances and partnerships within and across organisations.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital