Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The Greater Manchester Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) brings together NHS organisations delivering a range of acute, community, specialist, mental health and ambulance services to improve the health of the population of Greater Manchester.
The GM Trust Provider Collaborative delivers its work through its CEO meetings, its director groups (supporting work in specific disciplines such as workforce and finance) and through provider-led groups/system boards leading on specific areas of system transformation.
A small team has been established to support Trust Provider Collaborative meetings and its work. As well as ensuring the smooth running of the meetings, the Project Manager will provide support to the various provider director groups which take forward actions and projects on behalf of TPC. You will be responsible for the scoping and delivery of projects, as well as ensuring that work across the director groups is aligned as part of the overall Greater Manchester strategies and programmes.
Main duties of the job
1. Supporting preparation for and follow-up actions from the meetings of TPC groups.
2. Supporting coordination of TPC Director Group meetings and delivering pieces of work on behalf of the group where needed/appropriate.
3. Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and senior colleagues.
4. Collation of various returns and information from GM Trusts: reviewing data sets and pulling out key information/themes as required.
5. Supporting and working closely with the TPC Team ensuring papers/proposals follow appropriate governance processes.
6. Dealing with competing pressures across multiple projects and workstreams, prioritising and responding to situations on a daily basis e.g. managing unexpected risk and ensuring outcomes are achieved within budget and timescale tolerances.
7. Ensuring the effective communication of plans to relevant stakeholders.
8. Developing excellent relationships with senior managers, clinicians and other health care professionals.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant professional experience.
* Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.
Training
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: Business Case development and appraisal, Risk Management, Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (including Prince 2), MS Project Planning, Change Management and Controls.
Experience/skills
* Demonstrable implementation experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies.
* Experience of operating in a matrix management structure.
* Experience in the development of business cases.
* Experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects.
* Experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies in health and/or social care environments.
Personality
* Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines.
* Demonstrates a high level of communication skills.
* Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
* Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working.
* Strong planning and organisational skills.
* A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness.
* Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment.
* Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure.
* Excellent business and financial management skills.
* Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Ability to deliver at pace in a complex environment.
* Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, self-aware, controlled and confident.
* Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals.
* An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement.
* Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes.
* Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or reassurance skills are required.
* A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment.
Address
Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
349-COR-
Job locations
Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester
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