Adults Programme Manager

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job Overview

Join our team as the Adults Programme Manager

Are you ready to play a key role in driving the success of regional partnerships and shaping regional integration of health and care in Gwent? As the Adults Programme Manager, you will be an essential member of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board Support Team (PMO) within the ABUHB Corporate Planning Team. This is your chance to contribute to impactful projects and help streamline operations that make a real difference.

If you’re passionate about making an impact, excited to support a variety of key functions, and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the role for you. Get ready to be at the heart of strategic planning and help create better outcomes for communities across Gwent.

Our team is based in St Cadocs Hospital in Caerleon, and you will be working at our office and from home.

This post is fixed term for 12 months to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, direction, and programme management for a broad portfolio of projects and programmes across several revenue streams and delivered by a range of partners. They will ensure portfolio alignment with national policy and RPB priorities. They will also be responsible for ensuring good governance, including supporting project and programme change requests; managing, mitigating and escalating risks at a project-, programme- and portfolio-level; and supporting informed decision-making at the appropriate level. The postholder will lead and oversee the projects and programmes to ensure deliverables enhance services, improve the health and care system and demonstrate the difference made for the population of Gwent.

The Adults Programme Manager will operate in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, managing multiple complex and interdependent projects and programmes simultaneously. The role requires prioritisation skills, resilience, and the ability to respond quickly and effectively to emerging issues, shifting deadlines, and the demands of partners and Welsh Government. In supporting successful project and programme initiation, implementation and delivery, the postholder will engage stakeholders to define priorities, and implement processes. They will provide leadership on performance and outcomes reporting and will hold responsibility for reporting on the adult’s portfolio to Welsh Government and RPB.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
• Trained in a project or programme management methodology (e.g. PRINCE2 or MSP), or equivalent experience
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of management and managing multiple complex projects / programmes simultaneously at a senior level
• Experience of effective partnership working in the public sector, including effective stakeholder management when working with external bodies
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality outputs within tight deadlines and respond flexibly to changing priorities across organisational boundaries
• Experience of working with highly complex information and using persuasive and effective communication skills in connection with this information
  
  

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to build strong working relationships at pace to achieve desired outcomes
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to build strong working relationships at pace to achieve desired outcomes