Project Manager

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Greater Manchester Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) brings together NHS organisations delivering a range of acute, community, specialist, mental health and ambulance services to improve the health of the population of Greater Manchester.

The GM Trust Provider Collaborative delivers its work through its CEO meetings, its director groups (supporting work in specific disciplines such as workforce and finance) and through provider-led groups/ system boards leading on specific areas of system transformation.

A small team has been established to support Trust Provider Collaborative meetings and its work. As well as ensuring the smooth running the meetings, the Project Manager will provide support to the various provider director groups which take forward actions and projects on behalf of TPC. You will be responsible for the scoping and delivery of projects, as well as ensuring that work across the director groups is aligned as part of the overall Greater Manchester strategies and programmes.

Main duties of the job

Supporting preparation for and follow up actions from the meetings of TPC groups

Supporting coordination of TPC Director Group meetings and delivering pieces of work on behalf of the group where needed / appropriate

Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and senior colleagues

Collation of various returns and information from GM Trusts: reviewing data sets and pulling out key information/themes as required

Supporting and working closely with the TPC Team ensuring papers / proposals follow appropriate governance processes

Dealing with competing pressures across multiple projects and workstreams, prioritising and responding to situations on a daily basis e.g. managing of unexpected risk and ensuring outcomes are achieved within budget and timescale tolerances.

Ensuring the effective communication of plans to relevant stakeholders.

Developing excellent relationships with senior managers, clinicians and other health care professionals.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Date posted

24 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

349-COR-

Job locations

Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester

Trafford

M41 5SL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Desirable

  • Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.
  • Prince 2 Practitioner

Training

Essential

  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: -Business Case developmentand appraisal -Risk Management -Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (including Prince 2) -MS Project Planning -Change Management and Controls

Experience/skills

Essential

  • Demonstrable implementation experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies
  • Experience of operating in a matrix management structure
  • Experience in the development of business cases
  • Experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects

Desirable

  • Experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies in a health and/or social care environments

Personality

Essential

  • Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
  • Demonstrates a high level of communication skills
  • Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
  • Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working
  • Strong planning and organisational skills
  • A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness
  • Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
  • Excellent business, and financial management skills
  • Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment
  • Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, selfaware, controlled and conf
  • Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals

Desirable

  • An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
  • Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes
  • Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required
  • A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment

Other

Essential

  • Travel between Trust sites

Desirable

  • Driving License/ Car Owner
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Desirable

  • Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.
  • Prince 2 Practitioner

Training

Essential

  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: -Business Case developmentand appraisal -Risk Management -Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (including Prince 2) -MS Project Planning -Change Management and Controls

Experience/skills

Essential

  • Demonstrable implementation experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies
  • Experience of operating in a matrix management structure
  • Experience in the development of business cases
  • Experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects

Desirable

  • Experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies in a health and/or social care environments

Personality

Essential

  • Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
  • Demonstrates a high level of communication skills
  • Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
  • Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working
  • Strong planning and organisational skills
  • A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness
  • Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
  • Excellent business, and financial management skills
  • Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment
  • Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, selfaware, controlled and conf
  • Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals

Desirable

  • An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
  • Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes
  • Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required
  • A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment

Other

Essential

  • Travel between Trust sites

Desirable

  • Driving License/ Car Owner

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).

Additional information

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

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester

Trafford

M41 5SL


Employer's website

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester

Trafford

M41 5SL


Employer's website

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Secretariat & Policy Advisor

Riona Grainger

riona.grainger@mft.nhs.uk

01615372426

Date posted

24 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

349-COR-

Job locations

Trafford General Hospital & sites across Greater Manchester

Trafford

M41 5SL


Supporting documents

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