Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) for a Project Manager working as a member of the Ageing Well team.
Agenda for Change: Band 7
1 x 12 month contract (fixed term of secondment)
Full-Time position (37.5 hours per week)
Base for travel: Sleaford
Name: Lisa Foyster
Job title: Head of Strategic Development - Ageing Well and Long Term Conditions
Email: lisa.foyster@nhs.net
Phone: 07539 995565
We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the team in the development and delivery of improvement plans to deliver the strategic objectives of Integrated Community Care. The post holder will work across a number of projects simultaneously to deliver specific initiatives, improvement, transformation and integration. The post holder will seek to improve patient outcomes and experience and support the delivery of quality improvement and efficiency initiatives. Experience of managing and co-ordinating projects in a complex and challenging environments and excellent written and spoken communication skills are essential. Please refer to the job description for further information.
About us
Lincolnshire Integrated care system (ICS) is a partnership of health and care organisations, local government and the voluntary sector. It exists to improve population health, tackle health inequalities, enhance productivity and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
The ICS is formed of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and Integrated Care Board (ICB). NHS Lincolnshire ICB is the organisation responsible for NHS spend and the day-to-day running of the NHS in Lincolnshire. Under the Health and Care Act 2022, Lincolnshire ICB aims to tackle health inequalities and create safer, more joined-up services that will put the health and care system on a more sustainable footing.
As an ICB, we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice, with patients always at the heart of everything we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Direct/Indirect patient care
- Assist patients/clients during incidental contacts
- Contact with patients is incidental
Policy and Service Development
- Contribute to the review and development of existing information services and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.
- Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
- Ensure that all operational risks are identified and appropriately managed with clear actions and timescales for resolution and are escalated where appropriate. Ensuring that all clinical risks are owned by the ICB and provide management support to resolve where required.
- To act as the public interface for service delivery improvement to ensure that all participating organisations/stakeholders and key personnel within those organisations fully understand the benefits, changes in working practices and other implications associated with the services.
Financial and physical resources
- Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of budgets.
- Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against QIPP or other financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.
Human Resources
- Responsible for providing own training in own area of work and inducting new team members. Where appropriate supports the day to day management of team members.
Information resources
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Ensure information is cascaded appropriately to support knowledge building and service development.
- Ensure timely and accurate information analysis working with Business Intelligence (BI) colleagues and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
- To undertake complex audits
Research and Development
- Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and work stream success.
- Undertake research and development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
- Identify key priorities across the health community using both national and local intelligence
- Undertake national and regional benchmarking to identify best practice initiatives and how they may benefit patients within the ICB.
Other
To undertake the following to support personal development:-
- A willingness to undertake identified training needs and career development.
- Assist in the general development of the ICB to the extent of recognising the need for flexibility and the willingness to take on other duties as they present themselves and are commensurate with the grade and responsibilities of the post.
- Recognise that from time to time there will be a need to work flexibly in support of the ICB.
- Participate in the appraisal process and follow own personal development plan.
- To take reasonable care for own health and safety and for the health and safety of others by own work activity, to ensure all relevant policies and practices relating to health and safety are observed, to co-operate with management in meeting health and safety requirements, and to attend any statutory health and safety training as required.
- To undertake any additional duties commensurate with the grade of this post.
- The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance
- Other commissioning duties as directed by Lead Commissioners
Job description
Job responsibilities
Direct/Indirect patient care
- Assist patients/clients during incidental contacts
- Contact with patients is incidental
Policy and Service Development
- Contribute to the review and development of existing information services and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.
- Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
- Ensure that all operational risks are identified and appropriately managed with clear actions and timescales for resolution and are escalated where appropriate. Ensuring that all clinical risks are owned by the ICB and provide management support to resolve where required.
- To act as the public interface for service delivery improvement to ensure that all participating organisations/stakeholders and key personnel within those organisations fully understand the benefits, changes in working practices and other implications associated with the services.
Financial and physical resources
- Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of budgets.
- Evaluate projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against QIPP or other financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.
Human Resources
- Responsible for providing own training in own area of work and inducting new team members. Where appropriate supports the day to day management of team members.
Information resources
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Ensure information is cascaded appropriately to support knowledge building and service development.
- Ensure timely and accurate information analysis working with Business Intelligence (BI) colleagues and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
- To undertake complex audits
Research and Development
- Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and work stream success.
- Undertake research and development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
- Identify key priorities across the health community using both national and local intelligence
- Undertake national and regional benchmarking to identify best practice initiatives and how they may benefit patients within the ICB.
Other
To undertake the following to support personal development:-
- A willingness to undertake identified training needs and career development.
- Assist in the general development of the ICB to the extent of recognising the need for flexibility and the willingness to take on other duties as they present themselves and are commensurate with the grade and responsibilities of the post.
- Recognise that from time to time there will be a need to work flexibly in support of the ICB.
- Participate in the appraisal process and follow own personal development plan.
- To take reasonable care for own health and safety and for the health and safety of others by own work activity, to ensure all relevant policies and practices relating to health and safety are observed, to co-operate with management in meeting health and safety requirements, and to attend any statutory health and safety training as required.
- To undertake any additional duties commensurate with the grade of this post.
- The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance
- Other commissioning duties as directed by Lead Commissioners
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Management Level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience within an NHS or similar healthcare environment.
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in relevant clinical subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a clinical role
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in Project Management or Service Improvement role.
Essential
Essential
- Analytical individual with a strong attention to detail and the ability to assimilate new information and form views quickly.
- Analytical individual with a strong attention to detail and the ability to assimilate new information and form views quickly.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Proficient Information and Communication Technology skills using programmes including Microsoft Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Visio, intranet and internet and databases to extract and model and manipulate data to produce complex written, verbal, tabular and graphical information.
- Strong problem solving and judgement skills with the ability to make highly complex judgements which demonstrate a breadth of thinking and problem-solving using a variety of sources of information.
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Comprehensive understanding of national, regional and countywide challenges and key performance drivers in regards to delivery of health services.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- A confident communicator who has the capacity to tailor their verbal and written communications to anticipate the needs of various audiences and stakeholders including senior managers, providers across the wider Lincolnshire health community and external bodies.
- Proactive communication style, with an ability to energise and engage their audience.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle insured for business use for travel as required including attending meetings and events etc.
- Team player
- Flexible approach to working.
- Ability to use own initiative
- Excellent organisation skills to enable work priorities to be delivered and managed.
- Professional attitude.
- Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
- Understand and implement ICB and national policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, techniques and tools such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Management Level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Demonstrated experience within an NHS or similar healthcare environment.
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in relevant clinical subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a clinical role
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in Project Management or Service Improvement role.
Essential
Essential
- Analytical individual with a strong attention to detail and the ability to assimilate new information and form views quickly.
- Analytical individual with a strong attention to detail and the ability to assimilate new information and form views quickly.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Proficient Information and Communication Technology skills using programmes including Microsoft Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Visio, intranet and internet and databases to extract and model and manipulate data to produce complex written, verbal, tabular and graphical information.
- Strong problem solving and judgement skills with the ability to make highly complex judgements which demonstrate a breadth of thinking and problem-solving using a variety of sources of information.
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Comprehensive understanding of national, regional and countywide challenges and key performance drivers in regards to delivery of health services.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- A confident communicator who has the capacity to tailor their verbal and written communications to anticipate the needs of various audiences and stakeholders including senior managers, providers across the wider Lincolnshire health community and external bodies.
- Proactive communication style, with an ability to energise and engage their audience.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles
- Full driving license with access to a vehicle insured for business use for travel as required including attending meetings and events etc.
- Team player
- Flexible approach to working.
- Ability to use own initiative
- Excellent organisation skills to enable work priorities to be delivered and managed.
- Professional attitude.
- Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
- Understand and implement ICB and national policies and procedures.
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.
