Are you passionate about project management and driven by the desire to improve the experience of mental health services for both service users and staff?
Reporting to our Quality and Treatment Programme Manager, the successful candidate will support the delivery of a large-scale programme to change the way our clinicians and the wider mental health system create care plans for and with our service users, ensuring that these care and support plans are personalised and flexibly meet individual needs.
To support this significant change, candidates will need to be skilled at engaging stakeholders (clinical staff, system partners, service users, and carers), have proven experience in delivering clinical change, and possess well-developed project management skills. This project manager will work closely with the Care Planning Transformation Lead to implement our new approach across the organisation, ensure that project objectives are achieved, and that benefits are carefully monitored.
The potholder will be expected to bring NHS expertise, pace, pragmatism, enthusiasm, and creativity to deliver change. They will have a strong understanding of governance and well-developed business skills.
If you have the experience and enthusiasm to deliver transformational change and improvements to services that enhance quality, safety, and better outcomes for patients, then we would like to hear from you.
Flexible working considered and informal contact encouraged.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for project delivery by managing the project costs/budget, timescales/plans, quality, scope, benefits, risks, issues, and changes to ensure that the project will deliver the agreed objectives and associated benefits. To apply a professional project management methodology to the delivery of approved Trust projects. To apply all required governance processes to ensure that the project is compliant with AWP controls.
Job responsibilities
* To manage large and/or multiple projects within the Trust, following the agreed project management methodology, reporting progress against the agreed plan.
* To ensure that project objectives and benefits align with Trust, regional, and national strategy and are signed off and approved by all necessary governance.
* To be responsible for the project budget (if allocated this role by project governance), ensuring that all records are maintained and agreed funding levels are not exceeded. If not responsible for the budget, to ensure it is clear who is responsible for the budget/financial management and liaise with them to ensure any risks related to budget can be identified as early as possible.
* To manage multi-disciplinary teams associated with the delivery of projects, ensuring work is defined and delivered on time and utilizing people management skills to get the most out of team members. Ensuring that all project team members have agreed roles and responsibilities.
* To coordinate the work of different work streams within the project, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall high-level plan.
* To lead the development and maintenance of all project documentation including project summaries and other products within the project pack.
* To compile project reports and papers allowing progress to be effectively monitored.
* To develop and maintain a detailed stakeholder analysis to ensure that all parties involved in or affected by the project are engaged to the appropriate level.
* To be responsible for developing and maintaining information systems in relation to projects, ensuring clear audit trails are maintained.
* To lead the project team in developing and managing the project risks and issues registers in line with Trust policy.
* To develop a project communication plan, being clear about communication needs at the different stages of the project.
* To manage key project meetings ensuring that there is a chair, agenda, and appropriate meeting information is documented and distributed.
* To liaise with the programme manager to ensure alignment of project and programme plans and manage any dependencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent or possesses a relevant practitioner qualification.
* Significant work experience gained in a relevant field.
* Post-registration/Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent.
Experience
* Highly developed understanding of relevant legislation/statutory frameworks.
* A proven track record of delivering objectives on time and within budget.
* Experience of supervising staff to deliver in the workplace.
Skills
* Excellent communication skills, able to articulate highly complicated concepts in a way that is accessible to people from a non-technical background.
* Project Management Skills.
* Leadership skills, engenders confidence and respect.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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