Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, driven and collaborative project manager to deliver children's health improvement initiatives in the Midlands. This postholder should have strong interpersonal and communication skills, and should expect to work with a broad range of stakeholders across provision, commissioning and patients/families as part of day-to-day requirements.
This role has been situated within the West Midlands Children's Network team, hosted by Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. This is to promote awareness of and cross-working with relevant, interdependent network and clinical teams. The postholder will take a leadership role in securing the voice of children and young people to underpin the wider CYP programme and network efforts. The postholder's role will extend across the entire Midlands region.
Main duties of the job
This postholder will work as part of the NHS England Midlands-wide Children and Young People's Programme, contributing to the efforts to meet the commitments to children and young people in the NHS Long Term Plan. The regional CYP team enable and support all 11 Integrated Care Systems across the Midlands region to lead change to integrate and improve services across health and care for children and young people, ensuring their voices drive the design, delivery and evaluation of the services they use.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Supporting the team's business support function, including contributing to the team's annual business plan, progress and dashboard reporting and risk and issue management.
- Ensuring work programme activities support health and social care systems with their core purpose of quality improvement and ultimately benefit patient and population health outcomes.
- Overseeing the delivery of work in line with the work portfolio e.g. CYP Voice, Diabetes, Obesity and other projects as they become priorities.
- Delivering work related to the CYP safety and quality agenda across the region
- Working alongside colleagues in the professional and strategic arms of the CYP team to provide quality improvement and project management expertise across the region
- Supporting the sharing of best practice with system stakeholders (e.g. CYP Leads, community of practice groups), the team and wider NHS organisations
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Children and Young People
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Skills Capabilities &Attributes
Essential
- Be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be numerous courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Children and Young People
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Skills Capabilities &Attributes
Essential
- Be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be numerous courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
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
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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