TCD Senior Project Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

To formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via Final Business Cases (FBC) and Project Initiation Documents (PID).

To plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.

To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.

To encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance where there may be resistance to change.

To present at and facilitate workshops to large groups of staff and diverse audiences.

To plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.

To support the Programme through a senior role within the Project delivery teams ensuring continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.

To provide continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.

To work with local and national groups as required e.g., Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), third sector partners and NHS national teams, sharing complicated plans that need explanation.

To work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.

To communicate effectively with stakeholders enhancing the Trusts business where possible.

To inform services, key stakeholders, and others on service direction even if this is unwelcome news.

To monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.

To ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development, e.g., training, workforce planning and appropriate recruitment.

To ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.

To effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.

To analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.

To be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.

To participate in identified meetings as required.

To deliver standard Project Management products such as, but not limited to, highlight reports and exception reports.

Matrix-manage multidisciplinary workstream delivery teams from Operational and Digital Services delivery teams.

To facilitate a Project Managers Peer to Peer community with the Programme.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level, and additional knowledge acquired via formal training and accreditation at master's level, or equivalent specialist knowledge acquired through experience.
• A background in a multi project environment and experience of a wide range of projects, delivered in line with project management methodology.
• Recognised project or programme management qualification (APM, Prince 2, MSP, or equivalent)
• Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development

Desirable

• Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Extensive experience of hands-on project management, service development, transformation and change management, and/or business planning.
• Evidence of successfully leading and implementing Digital change projects and teams
• Experience of collaborative working across organisational, regional and national boundaries.
• Experience in creation of highly complex HM Treasury 5 case model documentation to contribute towards central funding applications.
• Experience of benefits identification, management and realisation

Desirable

• Substantial NHS experience of facilitating and managing major projects and transformational change within and across healthcare organisations, effectively working in Teams at a Senior Project Level.

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge, delivering a range of projects in complex environment
• Knowledge and experience of budgetary management.
• Ability to create and implement processes to support strategy.
• A systematic approach to problem solving and risk assessment.
• Skills in communicating, negotiating, and influencing with impact both verbally and in writing at all levels.
• Ability to value, understand and synthesise complex information from many sources and to implement that knowledge to influence decision/developments.
• Ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
• Computer literacy to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (e.g., Teams, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook).
• Experience in a senior role within a project delivery team.

Desirable

• Knowledge of health service policy change management and service re-design.
• A high level of knowledge of complex delivery in regulated services, with a working knowledge of enterprise digital systems and services.
• Sound understanding of the modernisation and development issues facing the NHS.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of colleagues.

PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written Good negotiation skills and the ability to bring people not directly managed on board with new ideas and concepts
• Analytical skills to diagnose a problem and understand complex situations or information; Judgmental skills to formulate solutions and recommend/decide on the best course of action/treatment.
• Ability to review options, appraise and offer recommendations to the organisational development team and Senior Management
• Excellent problem-solving skills to ensure prompt and effective resolution of matters arising during projects
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to manage and co-ordinate day-to-day projects and workstreams, communicating with key stakeholders, clients and other interested parties as part of that process.
• Self-motivated with the ability to respond to changing situations and work to tight deadlines, constantly redefining priorities
• Resilient and able to deal with difficult situation
• Ability to influence change
• Ability to lead and motivate people who are not directly managed
• Ability to adapt to changing needs
• The post holder must be able to work autonomously and as part of a team

OTHER

Essential

• Incidental contact with patients or Experts by Experience whilst maintaining the Trust's vision
• Required to interpret Trust policies and develop relevant OD and leadership policies as required
• Required to interpret and action related Government, Trust policies and regulations
• Ensure financial plans and targets are kept online through management and liaison with the Trust corporate accountant.
• Ability to work across all Trust sites and be flexible in working hours to meet the demands of the post

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Edward Jenner Court

1010 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park,

Brockworth, Gloucester

GL3 4AW

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)