Job summary
Are you passionate about leading change and driven by the desire to improve the experience of our services for both service users and staff through research and data solutions? Are you looking for a new career development opportunity and are keen to increase your understanding of how research can benefit NHS services?
The successful candidate will help lead and support the successful implementation of the Akrivia Health project and help align it with other project work in the Trust. The post holder will also be supporting academic colleagues to formulate research questions important to the AWP population.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Research & Development, the successful candidate will be skilled at engaging stakeholders, have proven experience in delivering change and have well developed project management skills. They will support R&D in achieving project objectives and in benefits realisation. The post-holder will be expected to bring NHS expertise, pace, pragmatism, enthusiasm and creativity to deliver change. They will have a strong understanding of governance and well developed business skills.
If you have the experience and enthusiasm to deliver transformational change and improvements to services that enhance quality, safety and better outcomes for patients then we would like to hear from you.
Flexible working considered and informal contact encouraged.
Main duties of the job
To apply a professional project management methodology to the delivery of identified Trust R&D initiatives and work with academics to bring new research to the AWP population. To lead and be directly accountable for such projects, ensuring that timescales, cost boundaries and other technical objectives are met.
To manage staff relationships, potential project budgets, systems, processes and information associated with identified projects.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.P
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To manage R&D initiatives and projects within and across the Trust, following a clear project management methodology, reporting progress against defined actions as necessary.
- To ensure that project deliverables are in line with Trust, regional and national strategy.
- To be responsible for the project, ensuring records are maintained and implementation plans are adhered to.
- To work with multi-disciplinary teams associated with the delivery of identified projects, ensuring work is defined and delivered on time and utilising people management skills to get the most out of team members.
- To coordinate the work of different workstreams within the project remits, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall workplan and the compilation of both broad and detailed plans.
- To play an active role in the drawing up of all project documentation, compiling project initiation documentation, defining the programme of activity and milestones within it.
- To compile project reports and papers, ensuring reporting mechanisms are delivered, that a clear assurance route is maintained so that progress can be effectively monitored and presenting these in a variety of settings.
- To provide detailed project management information both internally and externally as required.
- To liaise with relevant internal and external parties in order to ensure active engagement from various sources including service users and carers, staff and academic partners as well as partner agencies.
- To be responsible for developing and maintaining information systems in relation to projects, ensuring clear audit trails are maintained and that information is shared and owned collectively.
- To provide high level technical advice to the senior management team of R&D, Trust PMO and, where appropriate, the organisation as a whole so that project delivery is maximised.
- To lead in developing, scoring and managing the project risk register in line with Trust policy. This will include identifying potential threats to the project and their causes as well as mitigating management actions.
- To develop a project communication strategies, being clear about communication needs at the different stages of the projects and identifying the different roles and forms of engagement with different constituencies. This will include overseeing the development of relevant materials and information as well as specifying the specific forms of communication needed.
Communications and Working Relationships
- Research & Development
- Programme Management Office
- AWP managers and staff
- Academic partners
- External partners relevant to the project
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To manage R&D initiatives and projects within and across the Trust, following a clear project management methodology, reporting progress against defined actions as necessary.
- To ensure that project deliverables are in line with Trust, regional and national strategy.
- To be responsible for the project, ensuring records are maintained and implementation plans are adhered to.
- To work with multi-disciplinary teams associated with the delivery of identified projects, ensuring work is defined and delivered on time and utilising people management skills to get the most out of team members.
- To coordinate the work of different workstreams within the project remits, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall workplan and the compilation of both broad and detailed plans.
- To play an active role in the drawing up of all project documentation, compiling project initiation documentation, defining the programme of activity and milestones within it.
- To compile project reports and papers, ensuring reporting mechanisms are delivered, that a clear assurance route is maintained so that progress can be effectively monitored and presenting these in a variety of settings.
- To provide detailed project management information both internally and externally as required.
- To liaise with relevant internal and external parties in order to ensure active engagement from various sources including service users and carers, staff and academic partners as well as partner agencies.
- To be responsible for developing and maintaining information systems in relation to projects, ensuring clear audit trails are maintained and that information is shared and owned collectively.
- To provide high level technical advice to the senior management team of R&D, Trust PMO and, where appropriate, the organisation as a whole so that project delivery is maximised.
- To lead in developing, scoring and managing the project risk register in line with Trust policy. This will include identifying potential threats to the project and their causes as well as mitigating management actions.
- To develop a project communication strategies, being clear about communication needs at the different stages of the projects and identifying the different roles and forms of engagement with different constituencies. This will include overseeing the development of relevant materials and information as well as specifying the specific forms of communication needed.
Communications and Working Relationships
- Research & Development
- Programme Management Office
- AWP managers and staff
- Academic partners
- External partners relevant to the project
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent or possesses a relevant practitioner qualification.
- Significant work experience gained in a relevant field
- Post-registration/ Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Formal project management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed understanding of relevant legislation/ statutory frameworks
- Able to articulate all of the relevant elements of sound project management
- A proven track record of delivering objectives on time and within budget
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff to deliver in the workplace
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate highly complicated concepts in a way that is accessible to people from a non-technical background.
- Project Management Skills
- Experience gained at practitioner level in a large complex organisation operating within a policy and procedure framework.
- Leadership skills, engenders confidence and respect
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent or possesses a relevant practitioner qualification.
- Significant work experience gained in a relevant field
- Post-registration/ Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent
Desirable
- Formal project management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed understanding of relevant legislation/ statutory frameworks
- Able to articulate all of the relevant elements of sound project management
- A proven track record of delivering objectives on time and within budget
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff to deliver in the workplace
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate highly complicated concepts in a way that is accessible to people from a non-technical background.
- Project Management Skills
- Experience gained at practitioner level in a large complex organisation operating within a policy and procedure framework.
- Leadership skills, engenders confidence and respect
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).
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