Are you passionate about making an impact to improve the lives of people with mental health problems? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive full time 8B Senior Project Manager to join North-East London ICB. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Project Manager with a track record of supporting end-to-end transformation in mental health, with a particular focus on Children and Young People's mental health. You will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of senior internal and external stakeholders, across strategic, operational, and business-sensitive issues. You will be a trusted direct source of transformation delivery expertise to these stakeholders, providing meaningful challenge, advice, and feedback across the system. You will need a strong track record, with at least two years' recent experience, in leading mental health transformation and service improvement, with a particular focus on services for children and young people. You will also need to have excellent project and programme management skills and a thorough understanding of the overall mental health policy context and in particular the policy context for children and young people. Having experience of directly working with people with mental health problems, particularly children and young people, as a qualified practitioner is desirable.
Main duties of the job
This role will be working within our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Collaborative. The role sits within the ICB Strategy Directorate's Delivery Support Unit (DSU), which leads on driving the implementation and measuring the impact of change to enable the delivery of the North East London integrated care strategy. This change will cover a wide range of programmes ranging from the improvement of outcomes and transformation of care to the delivery of critical enabling infrastructure (both physical and digital) fit to meet the needs of local people for the next 20 years.
About us
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022. We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements. We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy. We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.
Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for full duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Knowledge & Experience
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
* Experience of managing risks and reporting
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
* Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
Specific Requirements
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity. Being aware of how individual actions contribute to, and make a difference to, the equality agenda
* Ability to manage teams and team performance, at times without direct line management
Role specific
* Skills and experience in leading innovative or transformative approaches in mental health for Children and Young People
* A thorough knowledge of national mental health policy and strategy for Children and Young People
* A track record in leading the collation of quantitative and qualitative data to improve performance
* A track record in delivering improved value for money
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.
£67,950 to £78,028 a year per annum inc HCA
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