About KSS AHSN

Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN (KSS AHSN) is one of 15 AHSNs set up by NHS England in 2013 and relicensed from April 2018 to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS.    

Our work is all about “transforming lives through innovation”.  We aim to improve the health and wellbeing of all citizens within our communities and contribute to a vibrant local economy.

Covering an area with a population of 4.8 million people, and a health and social care workforce of over 200,000 people, we seek to understand the needs of our health system and be well placed to broker innovative solutions. We develop projects, programmes and initiatives that reflect the diversity of our region and healthcare challenges. 

KSS AHSN is commissioned by the Office for Life Sciences (OLS) and NHS England to deliver a programme of work that underpins the acceleration, creation and adoption of health innovations. Our aim; to deliver improved outcomes for the population and generate economic growth, regionally and nationally by helping to enable companies/innovators to scale and create new jobs and investment.

About you and the role

We are currently recruiting for a Programme Manager to join our dynamic programme delivery team.  You will be part of a team that enables the delivery of sustainable and cost-effective improvements, which address the needs of our local population and key national needs. 

Initial responsibilities of the postholder will be within our Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) workstreams.  You will be working across a range of CVD projects, with a wide variety of stakeholders, including, for example, primary care, community teams, acute teams, commissioners, voluntary sector and public health.

The successful candidate will have a background of clinical experience, or significant interaction with clinicians and health & social care systems.  This is highly desirable for this particular role, due to the specific focus on cardiovascular disease, clinical innovations and clinical engagement.

You will possess excellent stakeholder management skills, with an ability to develop strong working partnerships.  You will also have proven experience in managing large scale projects or programmes, ideally within the NHS or a relevant public sector organisation.  You will have extensive knowledge of how to manage resources to support programmes of work, including experience in financial and performance management.

Duties and Responsibilities

You will:

• provide robust, pragmatic programme management to the KSSAHSN CVD programme, working closely with the clinical leads for the CVD workstreams to;

  • improve lipid management and increase diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. This includes people at increased CVD risk, statin intensification and appropriate use of ezetimibe and other NICE approved therapies; PCSK9i, bempedoic acid, and inclisiran

  • manage the deployment of blood pressure remote monitoring for people with hypertension, implementation of a digital pathway and provision of non-digital alternatives where needed

• be the point of contact for the KSS AHSN CVD programme, with the clinical advisor

• fundamentally contribute to the production of and input to monthly informal and quarterly formal performance reports

• build strong relationships with clinicians across Kent, Surrey and Sussex to enable the achievement of priorities set out above

• facilitate the building of capacity and capability across Kent, Surrey and Sussex for improvement in CVD pathways

• have oversight of programme budgets and where appropriate, processing expenditure and liaising between the programme team and management teams

• work closely with AHSN staff and Unity Insights analytics teams to facilitate the achievement of the aims of the CVD programme

• support ICS engagement in CVD, where needed. 

** It is strongly advised that you review the substantive Programme Manager JDPS, before making your application.**

Key Skills and Expertise

You will be the right person for this job if:

• You are passionate about solving problems, no matter if they're big or small; and have a strong mindset of getting things done.

• You actively identify opportunities, deliver improvements, and proactively implement and follow project/programme management methodologies and processes.

• You are great at managing expectations, ensuring delivery of the highest quality service, and soliciting and acting on stakeholder feedback.

• You have great communication skills (verbal and written), especially when it comes to communicating and documenting programme statuses and recommendations to stakeholders and team members.

• You are passionate about and/or have experience of helping innovators to solve challenges affecting citizens.

Key Terms and Benefits

You'll benefit from:

• A competitive salary, with full-time hours of work at 37.5 hrs per week, excluding lunch breaks.

• A starting rate of 33 days annual leave (pro-rata), rising to 35 days after five years.

• We offer flexible working and flexible working hours.

• The company currently offers a tax-efficient salary sacrifice scheme with any registered pension scheme, as specified by the employee.

• A workplace pension scheme is also offered to AHSN staff and if you meet the criteria, you will be automatically enrolled into the AHSN pension scheme when you join the organisation at month 1. 

• KSS AHSN values the health and wellbeing of its staff.   We pride ourselves in maintaining this organisational value and encourage a healthy work/life balance for our entire workforce. 

Further details can be found in our Key Terms of Employment.

How to apply

All you need to do is start the process by clicking on the blue button on the top right.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which will be a first formal interview, conducted remotely, via Teams. Again, if shortlisted, there will be a second interview stage, which we hope to conduct at our offices in Gatwick/Crawley.

Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process we will share how well you performed.

The closing date of this recruitment is Sunday, 21st November (at 23:59 hrs).

We expect to be inviting successfully shortlisted applicants to first stage (remote) interviews between 30th November and 7th December 2021.

Values and behaviours

Our values and behaviours are important to us.  We have developed a clear vision for the direction of the company.  In conjuction with our staff, we have developed a values and behaviours framework, in order to underpin our vision, applicants and employees will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to these values and behaviours, which will be assessed through the recruitment, selection and appraisal processes.

Diversity and Equal Opportunities

We are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Along with all 15 AHSN’s in the AHSN Network, we are signed up to a series of pledges to further underpin our diversity and innovation agenda.

** STRICTLY NO AGENCIES.  THANK YOU **

For further information on how we treat your personal data, we strongly urge you to review our General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Privacy notice for job applicants which can also be found at the KSS AHSN website.