Main area Programmes and Projects
Grade NHS AfC Band 8b
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref 161-NELICB-2080-1-A
Employer NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
Employer type NHS
Site Unex Tower, Stratford
Salary £67,950 - £78,028 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period Yearly
Closing 19/12/2024 23:59
Senior Project Manager
NHS AfC Band 8b
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for two full-time Senior Project Managers to join the newly formed Delivery Support Unit team in north east London ICB.
We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Senior Project Managers with a track record of leading end-to-end transformation, including prioritisation, impact reporting and assurance. They 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. They will be a trusted direct source of transformation delivery expertise to these stakeholders, providing meaningful challenge, advice, and feedback across the system. They will need a strong track record in delivering transformation programmes, excellent project and programme management skills, and a thorough understanding of the primary care and urgent emergency care policy context.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the primary care transformation portfolio is to deliver on ambitious plans to transform primary care by offering patients with diverse needs a wider choice of personalised, digital health services through collaboration with partners across health and social care and communities. There are six programmes within the portfolio that have plans to improve access, prevention, personalisation, tackling inequalities and building trust.
The aim of the urgent and emergency care portfolio is to improve access to services for local people that meets their needs and is aligned with the UEC national plan. This means working in collaboration with partners across health and social care and communities. There is significant national focus on UEC to deliver improvements to waiting times and patient experience, in alignment with the objectives of the UEC Recovery Plan published by NHSE.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Senior Project Managers will apply an agile and accommodating approach to delivering the objectives of their assigned programmes. The content of this role description relates both to the requirements of these programmes and the post holder’s leadership role within the wider delivery unit. They will lead the project teams ensuring excellent project management, governance and reporting and liaise closely with the PMO to ensure project and programme planning is reported accurately and impact is measured.
These roles will also provide line management within the delivery unit, for the Project Managers, Project Leads and other supporting roles including pastoral care and support with professional development, as well as leading on the development of professional skills and standards.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
* Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
* Experience of managing risks and reporting
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
* Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project and quality improvement (QI) techniques
Skills
* Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to internal and external stakeholders
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
* Capable of managing own workload and making informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
* 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, including influencing some without direct line management
* Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
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