Theatres & Critical Care Programme Manager 

The Theatres & Critical Care Programme Manager will lead and coordinate the delivery of a new theatre suite and a proposed expansion to Critical Care capacity, ensuring alignment with healthcare service transformation priorities and clinically led strategic goals. This high-profile role oversees the planning, management, and delivery of core workstreams, including design, transforming clinical pathways, workforce modelling, mobilisation, and the building programme.

The postholder is accountable for managing operational activities related to these schemes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, compliance with legislative requirements, and the delivery of sustainability and strategic space planning targets. The role requires high-level project leadership, robust governance establishment, regular progress reporting to the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) and Executive Boards, and collaborative engagement with clinical, operational, capital projects, and external system partners.

Location: Redhill 

Job Type: Temporary 

Duration of booking: Expected to last 6 months with possible extension

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: Up to £43 per hour PAYE inclusive of holiday pay, depending on experience. 

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 8am – 4pm 

Sector: Healthcare 

Based: Office / Hospital 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Programme Development and Delivery

• Manage the delivery of the theatre suite and critical care expansions, tracking performance against milestones, managing risks/dependencies, and acting as a central point of escalation.
• Support and author foundational documentation, including Business Cases, Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), project plans, technical specifications, risk/issue logs, and communication and benefits realisation plans.
• Provide project management expertise, leadership, and focus to workstream leads, proactively communicating with stakeholders to ensure execution matches best practice standards.
• Establish robust risk management arrangements to resolve issues early, build contingencies, and adjust plans if project scope, timelines, or costs shift.
• Coordinate interdependencies across internal and external projects to ensure the alignment of deliverables.
• Collaborate with specialist functions (Finance, Business Information, and HR) to establish solid governance and ensure project benefits are tracked from early stages.
• Plan and manage a demanding workload, handling conflicting priorities and tight deadlines with a sense of pace, urgency, and constructive challenge.
• Maintain accurate records of governance meetings, workshops, agendas, and action logs.

Resource and Financial Management

• Maintain responsibility for project resources, including allocated staff hours, budgets, and associated costs.
• Develop workforce and staffing models, ensuring recruitment processes align with operational go-live timelines.
• Oversee the development and management of the Equipment Schedule within defined budgets, securing timely delivery and testing in phase with construction.
• Agree on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), monitoring frameworks, and infrastructure to optimize facility efficiency.
• Enforce strict budget management and change control processes in compliance with Standing Financial Instructions, ensuring no costs are incurred prior to formal approval.

Pathway and Clinical Design

• Work in partnership with workstream leads and ICB health stakeholders to design forward-thinking clinical pathways and systems of work.
• Support and guide staff across the organisation to implement and embed improvements to working practices resulting from pathway redesigns and digital integrations.
• Research regional and national good practices, interpreting relevant healthcare policies, clinical guidelines, and quality metrics to translate them into practice.
• 4. Information Resources and Digital Integration
• Collaborate with clinical, facilities, and IT colleagues to embed the digital strategy within both the physical fabric of the building and the clinical care pathways.
• Utilize organizational digital systems to manage information, manipulate data, track benefits, and support project audits.
• Synthesize, interpret, and present highly complex data into simple, concise, and high-quality reports tailored for Executive Boards and diverse audiences.
• Ensure strict compliance with information governance standards, GDPR, healthcare guidelines, and data security policies.

Person Specification & Qualifications

• Educated to Master’s level or possesses equivalent experience .
• Recognised leadership or project/programme management qualification (or evidence of equivalent work-based experience) .
• Evidence of continuous professional and personal development.
• Significant experience working at a senior managerial or clinical level within a healthcare environment .
• Proven experience managing multiple complex, large-scale programmes or projects using recognized project methodologies and tracking tools .
• Robust background in risk management, dependency tracking, and governance .
• Experience building, delivering, and managing project budgets within a shifting landscape .
• Delivery of communication plans to drive stakeholder engagement, co-production, and collaboration .
• Background in compiling and presenting complex reports to project boards and governing committees .
• Working across multidisciplinary teams in a diverse professional organization to specify solutions.