East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join ESNEFT as a Provider Collaborative PMO Lead.
To ensure project and programme outputs are delivered effectively including the monitoring and reporting of progress for a range of collaborative projects across East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust and West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. This will include maintaining strong governance processes and standardisation of documents for projects and overarching transformation team governance, highlighting any potential impact on delivery/achievement of benefits.
You will be responsible for providing Programme Management Office services to the Suffolk and North-East Essex Provider Collaborative, and to support other team members as required to ensure project and programme outputs are delivered effectively.
Main duties of the job
* Create project documentation as required aligned to the recognised project management principles and methodologies at ESNEFT and WSFT, ensuring all aspects of project management best practices are met.
* Identify and deliver financial and efficiency savings via collaborative projects, providing practical and focused project management and governance support to ensure programme delivery, tracking and milestone review.
* Responsible for engaging with action owners to provide updates, identify any slippage to deadlines/milestones and challenge action owners to regain traction, ensuring delivery within timeframe to achieve agreed benefits.
* Promote the use of transformation project management processes, to facilitate design, and improvement safely in line with identified priorities.
* Support the development of project plans and the delivery of agreed milestones and objectives. Support amalgamation into programme-level plans.
* Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner.
* Support engagement plans for the programme to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience working within an acute NHS organisation
* Project Management Office (PMO) experience of managing projects including the creation of project plans, tracking risks and issues and formal change agreement.
* Experience of presenting to multi-disciplinary groups
* Experience of working in a complex environment
* Experience in process mapping clinical pathways and non-clinical processes, swim lane, flow charts.
* Evidence of supporting successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
* Project experience in supporting specific services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multi-professional environment.
* Experience working with data - recording, analysing and presenting.
* Experiencing in working with external organisations to understand and share best practice.
* Experience of managing process improvement initiatives
* Experience of working in a large programme environment
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or with the equivalent professional experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Formal training in project management methodology e.g. PRINCE 2
* Formal training in process improvement methodology
* Awareness of PMO working practice
Knowledge
* Demonstrable knowledge of process improvement methods and approaches
* Knowledge of health service management, including change and project management
* Proficient use of IT systems (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook, Project Management Tools) - standard keyboard skills
* Understanding of Trust clinical strategy
* Demonstrable knowledge of service improvements, change management and project management
* Knowledge of the transformation programme within the trust
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.
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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