Job summary
On 5 March 2024 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, announced funding for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) to develop its long-term plans for healthcare on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC). This is part of a wider investment in life sciences and economic growth in the Cambridge area and will enable CUH to develop plans to meet the health needs of the existing and planned new population, and to ensure the hospital can continue to play its full part in the success of the CBC.
Currently CUH, with partners and supported by external consultants, is developing a vision for the future of acute healthcare services on the CBC and in surrounding communities, together with an implementation plan which will start from March 2025. To support further development of this clinical strategy and the underpinning new models of care, in parallel with implementation of early quick wins, we are creating a small and dynamic project team which includes clinical and non clinical roles.
Main duties of the job
The Strategy and Major Projects teams work flexibly to deliver priority projects across CUH and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough healthcare system. The team is deployed onto projects which are critical enablers for CUH and the local healthcare system delivering on its strategy and achieving its vision.
The projects may be individual projects, stages of a larger project, or work streams of a programme with dependencies on other projects within the programme. Working autonomously to support the delivery of larger and more complex projects and work streams.
An experienced facilitator, the post holder will play a key role in identifying risks and issues, and operate as a skilled negotiator and 'unblocker' to drive progress towards delivery. They will be responsive to the changing needs of the health and care system. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining focus, enthusiasm and momentum. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of the programme of work they are allocated.
This post will deployed on the Acute Care Strategy project. It will play a crucial project management role to ensure successful delivery of this important and exciting project.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 4th February 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 12th February 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 4th February 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 12th February 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience
Desirable
- MBA or equivalent
- Additional post graduate qualifications
- Any NHS accredited leadership training or development programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in leading or managing the delivery of large, complex, long term (3yrs +) corporate projects that have strategic implications.
- Extensive specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management.
- Specialist knowledge of change management or organisational development.
- Specialist knowledge of problem solving tools, techniques and approaches applied in a multidisciplinary and cross-organisational environment.
- Experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload, both personal and that of a team.
- Experience of managing staff and delivering a work programme to time and budget.
- Experience in building and maintaining working relationships at a senior level.
- Experience in holding and monitoring budgets and undertaking audits of activity or developing long term business plans and forecasting.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS, and in particular the acute hospital environment, either in a clinical or non-clinical setting.
- Demonstrable experience in a health or care based environment.
- Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation.
- Transformational change or pathway redesign in a clinical setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of acute provider clinical operations
- Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
- Ability to interpret national guidance and disseminate/assess impact to the programme and team
- Ability to implement local polices to improve project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
Desirable
- Understanding of programmes of work that are complex or involve transformational changebased programmes across health economies
- Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue & cost models) and business case processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate highly complex business information to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
- Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions.
- Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
- Change management, improvement methodologies or organisational development skills
- Ability to influence senior clinicians and managers
- Highly customer focussed with good attention to detail
- Highly numerate, pragmatic and solution-oriented
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
- Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
- Ability to move between big picture and detail
- Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc.) to analyse and present information
- Excellent research and analytical skills
Desirable
- Data analysis
- Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
- Developing business cases and contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
- Undertaking research related to policy
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience
Desirable
- MBA or equivalent
- Additional post graduate qualifications
- Any NHS accredited leadership training or development programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in leading or managing the delivery of large, complex, long term (3yrs +) corporate projects that have strategic implications.
- Extensive specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management.
- Specialist knowledge of change management or organisational development.
- Specialist knowledge of problem solving tools, techniques and approaches applied in a multidisciplinary and cross-organisational environment.
- Experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload, both personal and that of a team.
- Experience of managing staff and delivering a work programme to time and budget.
- Experience in building and maintaining working relationships at a senior level.
- Experience in holding and monitoring budgets and undertaking audits of activity or developing long term business plans and forecasting.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS, and in particular the acute hospital environment, either in a clinical or non-clinical setting.
- Demonstrable experience in a health or care based environment.
- Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation.
- Transformational change or pathway redesign in a clinical setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of acute provider clinical operations
- Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
- Ability to interpret national guidance and disseminate/assess impact to the programme and team
- Ability to implement local polices to improve project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
Desirable
- Understanding of programmes of work that are complex or involve transformational changebased programmes across health economies
- Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue & cost models) and business case processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate highly complex business information to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
- Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions.
- Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
- Change management, improvement methodologies or organisational development skills
- Ability to influence senior clinicians and managers
- Highly customer focussed with good attention to detail
- Highly numerate, pragmatic and solution-oriented
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
- Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
- Ability to move between big picture and detail
- Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc.) to analyse and present information
- Excellent research and analytical skills
Desirable
- Data analysis
- Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
- Developing business cases and contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
- Undertaking research related to policy
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Addenbrookes Hospital-Division R&D
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Employer's website
https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)