Programme Manager, Children's Hospital Alliance inBishopton inBishopton PUBLISHED 18 SEP 2024

As a champion of programme management, the post holder will need high levels of self-motivation, tenacity and resilience.
The post holder will lead a complex change programme across 13 children's hospitals. The 13 member Trusts of the Children's Hospital Alliance will be working together to improve the delivery of palliative care, pathology and cardiac surgery. The postholder will work across Trusts to develop approaches to shared working and support Trusts to implement this.

The purpose of this key role is to lead a complex change programme of work that will support and facilitate the successful delivery of the Children's Hospital Alliance's programme to support Fragile Services.

The role will provide deputy leadership in absence of the CHA Senior Programme Manager and will be accountable to the CHA Managing Director. The post holder will be required to work closely with, and in support of, the CHA Trust’s executive directors, divisional directors, operational managers, finance managers, and clinical leaders to ensure the maintenance of a robust programme management framework, which ensures that programme activities are well supported and have the necessary programme management to underpin delivery.

As a champion of programme management, the post holder will need high levels of self-motivation, tenacity and resilience. Success in the role will necessitate the establishment and development of strong and effective working relationships at all levels across multiple organisations, with the ability to challenge and effectively support the delivery of a complex, multifaceted programme, through the application of structured project management processes and interventions.

The Children’s Hospital Alliance brings together specialist and large children’s hospitals across the UK. We use our voice as a group of children’s providers, collaborating

  • To advocate for children and young people.
  • To learn from each other and innovate;
  • To lead on service transformation and elective recovery, tackling health inequalities;

Through our shared work programmes we aim to improve working lives of staff and access & experience of hospital care for children, young people and their families.

The group first convened in 2and transformed in 2021, leveraging a £20m grant from the NHS Covid Recovery Accelerator scheme. The 10 Accelerator trusts all exceeded pre-Covid activity levels and worked together on innovation and improvement. The Paediatric Accelerator became a national case study for best practice & won the 2022 HSJ Award for Performance Recovery.

Member trusts are now self-funding a programme team to maintain momentum & realise the potential of this new collaborative way of working.

The CHA is hosted by Alder Hey and co-chaired by Matthew Shaw (CEO GOSH) and Ruth Brown (CEO Sheffield Children’s). It is run by a PMO team led by Managing Director, Alexandra Norrish (also Development Director Sheffield Children’s), supported by the senior leadership teams within member trusts. The network is growing, with 13 member trusts in England and an associate member in Wales (Cardiff).

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Robertshaw (after 2nd Sept) Job title: Senior Programme Manager, CHA Email address: Telephone number:
The post holder will lead a complex change programme across 13 children's hospitals. The 13 member Trusts of the Children's Hospital Alliance will be working together to improve the delivery of palliative care, pathology and cardiac surgery. The postholder will work across Trusts to develop approaches to shared working and support Trusts to implement this.

The purpose of this key role is to lead a complex change programme of work that will support and facilitate the successful delivery of the Children's Hospital Alliance's programme to support Fragile Services.

The role will provide deputy leadership in absence of the CHA Senior Programme Manager and will be accountable to the CHA Managing Director. The post holder will be required to work closely with, and in support of, the CHA Trust’s executive directors, divisional directors, operational managers, finance managers, and clinical leaders to ensure the maintenance of a robust programme management framework, which ensures that programme activities are well supported and have the necessary programme management to underpin delivery.

As a champion of programme management, the post holder will need high levels of self-motivation, tenacity and resilience. Success in the role will necessitate the establishment and development of strong and effective working relationships at all levels across multiple organisations, with the ability to challenge and effectively support the delivery of a complex, multifaceted programme, through the application of structured project management processes and interventions.

The Children’s Hospital Alliance brings together specialist and large children’s hospitals across the UK. We use our voice as a group of children’s providers, collaborating

  • To advocate for children and young people.
  • To learn from each other and innovate;
  • To lead on service transformation and elective recovery, tackling health inequalities;

Through our shared work programmes we aim to improve working lives of staff and access & experience of hospital care for children, young people and their families.

The group first convened in 2and transformed in 2021, leveraging a £20m grant from the NHS Covid Recovery Accelerator scheme. The 10 Accelerator trusts all exceeded pre-Covid activity levels and worked together on innovation and improvement. The Paediatric Accelerator became a national case study for best practice & won the 2022 HSJ Award for Performance Recovery.

Member trusts are now self-funding a programme team to maintain momentum & realise the potential of this new collaborative way of working.

The CHA is hosted by Alder Hey and co-chaired by Matthew Shaw (CEO GOSH) and Ruth Brown (CEO Sheffield Children’s). It is run by a PMO team led by Managing Director, Alexandra Norrish (also Development Director Sheffield Children’s), supported by the senior leadership teams within member trusts. The network is growing, with 13 member trusts in England and an associate member in Wales (Cardiff).

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Robertshaw (after 2nd Sept) Job title: Senior Programme Manager, CHA Email address: Telephone number:


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