Programme Manager

Programme Manager
Fixed Term contract to 31st March 2025
Full Time 37.5 hours/week
Base - NHS Executive Offices-Cardiff, Swansea, North Wales
Do you have strong programme and project management experience and excellent communication skills to drive, lead and deliver innovative programmes to improve cancer outcomes in Wales?
The Programme Manager will work with other Cancer Network teams and develop strong working relationships and partnerships with clinicians, health board/trust cancer lead clinicians/managers, primary care, and other stakeholders to facilitate a strong community of practice to improve the timely diagnosis of cancer patients across Wales., The following duties will be discharged, working closely with key programme stakeholders.
· To identify and understand the needs of stakeholders, including national network programmes and agencies, providing sound judgement and diplomatic skills.
· To design and plan the various work streams aligned to the Strategic Cancer objectives and effectively co-ordinate the projects and their interdependencies to assure the programme achieves its objective.
· To co-ordinate the activities of relevant programme boards and other groups and forums.
· To develop and implement governance framework.
· To maximise the use of resources, initiating corrective action where appropriate.
· To manage a reporting framework to ensure key stakeholders are informed of progress through the preparation of programme reporting.
· To pro-actively manage programme risks and issues and instigate contingency plans, as and when necessary.
· To provide advice to Welsh Government (WG) for Ministers and Senior Officials on the development of policy to support the implementation of specific Programmes.
· To provide verbal and written reports as requested by NHS Executive, Cancer Network Board, Welsh Government, and other programmes.
· To support the professional development of the programme and project management team.

Working for our organisation
The NHS Executive works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction - enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance, The Programme Manager will provide co-ordination, leadership, and management, shaping a work programme to successfully deliver transformational change across the landscape of the NHS in Wales. Working in partnership with the clinical lead and Health Board cancer managers and primary care practitioners, to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate project plans.
The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills; the ability to build effective sustainable working relationships with key stakeholders and partners and proven experience of leading and implementing successful projects through a multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational and cross boundary approach.
The post holder will be based at an NHS Executive, Cancer Network office and be willing to travel across sites within NHS Wales.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.