Erewash Health Partnership

Projects Manager

The closing date is 25 May 2025

Job summary

Erewash Health Partnership (EHP) is recruiting a Projects Manager to join a dynamic, collaborative team supporting healthcare delivery across EHP constituent practices and Erewash PCN-wide.

Erewash Health Partnership (EHP) was established on 1 April 2018 and is a single GP Partnership comprising of seven constituent practices. EHP employs approximately 240 people who work within the constituent practices and central team.

Our Projects Manager will lead on the delivery of improvement projects for our practices and patient population, working collaboratively across our practices to ensure successful project implementation.

Main duties of the job

The Project Manager will have the following core responsibilities:

  • Project Management for mobilisations and service improvement initiatives.
  • Developing plans for projects identified by EHP SLT, Practices or the wider PCN and support Project Leads with the implementation of the projects.
  • Deliver focused improvement projects across 7 GP Practices within Erewash Health Partnership and across 11 GP Practices for Erewash PCN.
  • Travelling to sites, where needed to oversee project delivery.
  • Conduct reviews and map current processes, to proactively recommend improvement projects to EHP SLT as well as EHP and Erewash PCN Board.
  • To be prepared to 'roll your sleeves up' and intervene when projects are not progressing as planned, identify blockages and work to get projects back on track.
  • Engage and work with stakeholders across the organisation to successfully deliver projects, monitoring and escalating risks and issues.
  • Facilitate shared learning, throughout and after project completion as well as processes by which the impact of the project can be measured against its objectives.
  • Work with and for Practice sites to support collective delivery of targets, ambitions and improvement.

About us

Erewash Health Partnership (EHP) was established on 1 April 2018 and is a single GP Partnership comprising of seven constituent practices. EHP employs approximately 240 people who work within the constituent practices and central team.

This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer for Erewash Health Partnership, based at Littlewick Medical Centre, in Ilkeston. While based at Littlewick Medical Centre, the successful post holder may be asked to travel to liaise with stakeholders, and oversee project delivery across PCN and EHP practices, as follows:

Erewash PCN:

  • Littlewick Medical Centre
  • Eden Surgery
  • South Street Surgery
  • Gladstone House Surgery
  • Moir Medical Centre
  • West Park Surgery
  • Aitune Medical Practice
  • West Hallam Medical Centre
  • College Street Medical Practice
  • Adam House Medical Centre
  • Old Station Surgery

Of which, Erewash Health Partnership is comprised of the following constituent practices:

  • Littlewick Medical Centre
  • Eden Surgery
  • South Street Surgery
  • Gladstone House Surgery
  • Moir Medical Centre
  • West Park Surgery
  • Aitune Medical Practice

Details

Date posted

08 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£38,000 to £42,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A2515-25-0006

Job locations

Littlewick Medical Centre

Nottingham Road

Ilkeston

Derbyshire

DE7 5PR


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached "Job Description and Person Spec" for further details around the requirements for this post

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached "Job Description and Person Spec" for further details around the requirements for this post

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Delivery focused
  • High levels of integrity and loyalty
  • Polite, confident and compassionate with people
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Motivated and proactive
  • Ability to use initiative and judgement
  • Forward thinker with a solutions-focused approach
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Confident, assertive and resilient
  • Ability to drive and deliver change effectively
  • Ability to motivate teams, enhance morale and maintain a positive working environment, including team building sessions

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
  • Full UK driving licence

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level, or equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Project Management Qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Leadership and / or Management Qualification

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to motivate, manage, coach, train, develop and deliver project delivery from managers, supervisors and staff
  • Excellent communication skills (written, oral and presenting)
  • Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
  • Proven problem solving & analytical skills
  • Proven at delivery in a timely, effective and efficient way generating solutions and output
  • Ability to exploit and negotiate opportunities to enhance service delivery
  • Strong IT skills (generic)
  • Strategic thinker and negotiator
  • Ability to prioritise, delegate and work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to network and build relationships
  • Ability to develop, implement and embed policy and procedures

Desirable

  • Excellent leadership skills
  • SystmOne user skills

Experience

Essential

  • Successfully delivering multiple change, projects and continuous improvement using a recognised model for change
  • Significant successful experience of working in large multi-site Practices/services (operations and development)
  • Experience of creating, managing, forecasting and working within budgets
  • Experience of workforce planning, forecasting and development as part of project management
  • Experience of highly effective communications delivery internally and externally to stakeholders
  • Experience of engaging with and managing multidisciplinary staff members and teams to enable change to be delivered
  • Experience of chairing meetings, producing agendas and minutes

Desirable

  • Experience of health and safety and risk assessments
  • Experience of procurement, contracting and site management
  • An understanding of GP Practice Quality and CQC requirements
Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Delivery focused
  • High levels of integrity and loyalty
  • Polite, confident and compassionate with people
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Motivated and proactive
  • Ability to use initiative and judgement
  • Forward thinker with a solutions-focused approach
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Confident, assertive and resilient
  • Ability to drive and deliver change effectively
  • Ability to motivate teams, enhance morale and maintain a positive working environment, including team building sessions

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
  • Full UK driving licence

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level, or equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Project Management Qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Leadership and / or Management Qualification

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to motivate, manage, coach, train, develop and deliver project delivery from managers, supervisors and staff
  • Excellent communication skills (written, oral and presenting)
  • Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
  • Proven problem solving & analytical skills
  • Proven at delivery in a timely, effective and efficient way generating solutions and output
  • Ability to exploit and negotiate opportunities to enhance service delivery
  • Strong IT skills (generic)
  • Strategic thinker and negotiator
  • Ability to prioritise, delegate and work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to network and build relationships
  • Ability to develop, implement and embed policy and procedures

Desirable

  • Excellent leadership skills
  • SystmOne user skills

Experience

Essential

  • Successfully delivering multiple change, projects and continuous improvement using a recognised model for change
  • Significant successful experience of working in large multi-site Practices/services (operations and development)
  • Experience of creating, managing, forecasting and working within budgets
  • Experience of workforce planning, forecasting and development as part of project management
  • Experience of highly effective communications delivery internally and externally to stakeholders
  • Experience of engaging with and managing multidisciplinary staff members and teams to enable change to be delivered
  • Experience of chairing meetings, producing agendas and minutes

Desirable

  • Experience of health and safety and risk assessments
  • Experience of procurement, contracting and site management
  • An understanding of GP Practice Quality and CQC requirements

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 details

Employer name

Erewash Health Partnership

Address

Littlewick Medical Centre

Nottingham Road

Ilkeston

Derbyshire

DE7 5PR


Employer's website

https://www.erewashhealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Erewash Health Partnership

Address

Littlewick Medical Centre

Nottingham Road

Ilkeston

Derbyshire

DE7 5PR


Employer's website

https://www.erewashhealth.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Amy Percival

amy.percival6@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

08 May 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£38,000 to £42,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A2515-25-0006

Job locations

Littlewick Medical Centre

Nottingham Road

Ilkeston

Derbyshire

DE7 5PR


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