Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Senior Improvement Lead
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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust is embarking on its biggest improvement journey and working alongside our system colleagues we are shaping the agenda of care for Mental Health, learning disability, and autism across the county.
Senior Improvement Lead
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team to deliver an agenda and really make a difference to our patients, service users, carers and our people.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
This is a full-time permanent role to deliver a range of strategic programmes as part of our 'Doing Well Together' improvement programme. We are a high-performing team looking to continuously improve our approach to delivering change within KMMH. In addition to utilising your programme and project management skills, we are looking for someone who will actively contribute to the development of the PMO.
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Responsibilities:
- Support the Head of Projects and Programmes to determine resource requirements and negotiate the provision of resources with the sponsor and other senior managers and provide ongoing management of resources.
- Implement a time-bound management approach, including the articulation of the delivery roadmap for programmes.
- Underpin change initiatives with appropriate documentation including charter, project plans, risk and issues registers, benefits realisation documentation, and other associated relevant documentation.
- Support and coach senior managers, clinicians and project teams in articulating and utilising project/programme management methodologies to implement change.
- Communicate the progress of improvement initiatives.
- Deliver projects/programmes to the agreed quality standards, to time and cost and in accordance with the Trust’s project management framework and processes.
About Us:
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Contact:
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tanya Parker
- Job title: Senior Improvement Manager
- Email address: tanya.parker@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07881824392
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