Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Pathology Programme Manager
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Pathology Team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Pathology Programme Manager, providing maternity cover for this key role.
The primary focus of the post will be to lead and coordinate delivery of the new purpose-built Pathology facility at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH), supporting commissioning, operational readiness and the safe transition of services into the new laboratory.
Working with the Pathology leadership team, the post holder will coordinate multiple interdependent workstreams and work closely with clinical and operational teams, Estates, Digital, Procurement, suppliers and other partners to ensure the programme is delivered safely, effectively and to agreed timescales.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced programme or project manager to play a pivotal role in one of Pathology's most significant transformation programmes.
This post is offered on a fixed-term basis to provide maternity cover. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early once sufficient suitable applications have been received.
Key Responsibilities Will Include
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- Leading and coordinating workstreams associated with the new build, commissioning, operational readiness and transition of Pathology services.
- Maintaining the programme plan and actively managing milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and critical activities.
- Working collaboratively with Pathology clinical and operational teams, Estates, Digital, Procurement, suppliers and other key stakeholders.
- Coordinating complex interdependent activity including infrastructure, equipment, digital systems, validation and verification, workforce, operational processes and service transition.
- Ensuring workstreams are delivered to required quality standards, agreed budgets and timescales.
- Maintaining robust programme governance, providing timely reporting and assurance to Pathology leadership and relevant Project and Programme Boards.
- Identifying and escalating risks and issues and ensuring appropriate mitigation and recovery actions are implemented.
- Providing expert programme and project management advice and supporting wider Pathology transformation priorities where required.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Debra Padgett
Job title: Clinical Pathology Lead
Email address: debra.padgett2@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07729505752
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