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The Project Lead acts as the central point of contact and scheme level conduit for a Trust scheme, coordinating integration, assurance, and oversight activity to enable compliant, informed, and effective delivery.

The role provides single point coordination between the Trust, Directorates, and the wider programme, ensuring alignment to programme expectations, standards, and governance at scheme level. The Project Lead supports decision making by bringing together information on scope, programme, cost, risk and dependencies, and by identifying emerging issues early so they can be addressed through the appropriate governance, assurance, or delivery routes.

The Project Lead does not manage delivery or ultimately decide on requirements implementation, but enables delivery teams to succeed through structure, clarity, and proactive coordination.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Acting as the primary scheme-level interface between the Trust, Executives, PMO, Directorate Guardians, assurance teams DHSC and HM Treasury, and wider programme functions.
• Attending and presenting at scheme, programme and assurance meetings as required.
• Supporting the application of prevailing standards, policies and requirements at scheme level, working closely with Directorates.
• Supporting delivery of the agreed project outcomes and benefits while adhering to the strategic objectives defined by the Trust and DHSC for the benefit of current and future patients.
• Awareness and maintenance of an effective Alliance relationship and promotion of its benefits with members and stakeholders
• Appropriate and proactive escalation of issues, assistance requirements, and resourcing support to the alliance management office (AMO) as a remedy to schematic concerns.
• Awareness and maintenance of an effective Partnering Agreement relationship and promotion of its benefits with members and stakeholders. Including engaging in core group and wider core group meeting.
• Appropriate and proactive escalation of issues, assistance requirements and resourcing support to the partnering agreement core groups as a remedy to schematic concerns.
• Supporting the implementation of Trust and prevailing change control processes, coordinating information, impact assessments and documentation and present or support presentation of the change to approving committees e.g. Trust change committees.
• Where necessary use the Delivery Escalation Process, Delivery Clinics and other forums to brief management, committees and or Executives on matters requiring decisions or direction.
• Coordinating the development and maintenance of the scheme Risk, Assumption, Dependencies, Issues and Opportunity (RADIO) registers and proactively engage Trust and or risk management processes.
• Proactively identify emerging risks, issues and cross-scheme dependencies, escalating as required (to Trust Programme Director and Wave Lead).
• Positively challenge information provided by Trusts, Boards, contractors and advisors to ensure robustness and transparency.
• Supporting Scheme Programme Directors and Wave Leads by providing clear, evidence-based insights to inform governance decisions.
• Acting as focal point in the project, lead the coordination, interface and integration of the project team, including but not limited to Technical Services, Commercial and Contracts, Finance and Healthcare.
• Working collaboratively across the Trust, the ICB, the healthcare region, supporting a constructive, proportionate and enabling approach to scheme oversight.
• Working knowledge of the prevailing Cohort 2 Partnering Agreement and H2A Alliance Agreement that may be applicable to the scheme; including roles, accountabilities and collaborative behaviours within an alliance or partnering environment.
• Providing guidance and informal coaching to Trust teams on processes, expectations and assurance readiness.
• Coordinating lessons learned activity and feedback to functions to support continuous improvement.
• Supporting Trust and or lesson learned processes and provide feedback to the programme managers, design guardians and relevant Directorates or functions to improve project and service delivery.
• Reviewing, commenting and supporting the Trust to manage the quality and completeness of Scheme Prospectuses, addressing delivery, sequencing, and site-specific risks to support timely collaborative allocation.
• Managing the Trust’s adoption of the healthcare H2.0 design framework and the industrialisation strategy of advocating the continued application and compliance with the H2.0 principles.
• Facilitating the planning, coordination and implementation of healthcare’s operational readiness activities that implement clinical services, deploy clinical staff and hospital digitised systems.
• Reporting on operational readiness of the schemes within reporting processes.