Project Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will support the Coventry &Warwickshire Continuing Health care Service (CHC) and Individual packages of care (IPOC) Leads and Managers to ensure effective delivery of NHS CHC and IPOC priorities across the C&W system The Project Lead will work collaboratively with various partners , and external stakeholders to facilitate and lead projects to secure system-wide transformation and delivery of strategic priorities.

The Project Lead role will ensure workstreams are planned and managed effectively, taking the lead in ensuring their successful delivery against agreed timelines and plans, and for the management and reporting of risk. This includes overseeing the implementation and delivery of projects against the key milestones within agreed timescales.

A key dimension to this role will be to lead projects within the workstreams with the engagement of relevant partners and clinicians in the complex management agenda to ensure they are heavily involved in the development of plans and any service pathway design, improvement and change management and that there is the necessary capacity and capability within the system to deliver both the local and national targets.

Has a key responsibility to lead project management and provide service analysis, service redesign and capability building expertise to the services that fall within Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System (ICS).

Actively contribute to the delivery of the CHC and IPOC programme and project key objectives providing professional project leadership to allocated workstreams.

Manage and implement an effective and planned programme of activities utilising agreed tools and skills including those based primarily but not exclusively on lean thinking ensuring that progress can be tracked, and risks mitigated.

Work closely with the workstreams ensuring strong engagement, cross working, shared learning, and delivery against their individual workstream plans.

Liaise and communicate extensively with key stakeholders across the health economy. Liaise with appropriate functions within the ICB.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) or equivalent experience PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Experience of working in public sector organisations i.e., NHS, Local Authority, Police, Fire Service etc.
• Current knowledge of Continuing health and care systems in England
• Sound knowledge of current NHS performance and service improvement initiatives and targets
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of models, theories and frameworks of Lean, process redesign and change management
• Experience working within a policy environment.
• Proven track record of working on service transformation.
• Experience of working in a complex, multidisciplinary organisation
• Experience of working in an effective team from diverse backgrounds
• Experience of initiating partnership working across organisational boundaries

Analytical Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to use and interpret activity and benchmark data as a basis for the identification of improvement opportunities and expected outputs
• Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise

Planning Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.

Desirable

• Experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

Management Skills

Essential

• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
• Ability to demonstrate leadership though people management skills and to manage conflicts arising from differing expectations and priorities across diverse groups.
• Ability to motivate and enthuse others.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Parkside House

Quinton Road

Coventry

CV1 2NJ

Employer's website

https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/integrated-care-board/ (Opens in a new tab)