Project Manager

Job summary

Do you enjoy meeting new people?

Are you interested and passionate about delivering effective, sustainable change and developing your professional skills?

And do you have excellent organisational and positive influencing skills that will help the teams with which you are working?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, read on....

Improving Together at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust combines and aligns our Trust Strategy, and Best Place to Work Programme, resulting in every member of staff empowered to become problem solvers, no matter what job they do. This approach will create a culture of continuous improvement and ensure the long-term delivery of our vision 'An Outstanding Experience for our patients, their families and the people who work for and with us'

Main duties of the job

A core part of Improving Together is the project delivery system which underpins and enables large-scale change alongside continuous improvement, working together to deliver long term sustainable change.

We are recruiting a Project Manager to support this large-scale change through a strong programme and project management focus, using a coaching approach and through a continuous improvement ethos. We are looking for the professional skill sets to manage and support the delivery of transformational change which spans both formal project management and change delivered through a rapid continuous improvement approach within our programme, project, and continuous improvement environments.

Applicants will have demonstrable experience in managing change within a large organisation, evidencing strong project management skills; coaching and influencing for change; and have a good grounding in using continuous improvement methods and approaches in practice.

Applicants will have at least 2 years' experience in an improvement or project management field, working within a public or private sector organisation; be educated to degree level or equivalent. You will be a great communicator with a varied and wide range of staff with a style which motivates and influences for change.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 27 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk