Senior Improvement Manager – Programmes

Company: NHS
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Location: Maidstone
Job Description:

KMMH 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.

This Senior Improvement Programme Manager role is an exciting opportunity to work with an amazing team to deliver an agenda and really make a difference to our patients, services users, carers and our people.

Main duties of the job

This is a 10 month contract to deliver a range of strategic programmes as part of our ‘Doing Well Together’ improvement programme including the integration of our new Mental Health Together model.

  • Support the Programme Director to determine resource requirements and negotiate the provision of resource 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).

Our teams support children, youngpeopleand 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 mentalillness, butlive well.It’swhywe’repassionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive,curiousand confident.

Education

  • Educated to master’s level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience
  • Accredited Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma/ Continuous Improvement or demonstrable experience at equivalent level
  • Accredited in another programme or project management
  • Coaching Qualification
  • Training Qualification

Experience

  • Proven experience of successfully delivering major organisationwide and multi-agency transformation and/or quality improvement redesign projects that have significant financial investment in complex and challenging environments
  • Horizon Scanning
  • Multi-Partner Working

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Posted: June 28th, 2026