Project Manager - Starting Well

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide excellent programme management and co-ordinate of a broad range of complex activities within the project across a range of partners and stakeholders, patients and commissioners

• Produce a detailed Project Implementation Plan which is monitored by the Project Board and BHCs Senior Leadership Team. The plan will map out risk management and exit plan documents and include: project activities; timescales; responsibilities; milestones; outputs and outcome targets.

• Lead on the development of metrics and outcomes for an effective and robust evaluation, ensuring effective systems are in place to gather data at key milestones and feedback progress to a broad range of stakeholders.

• With support of Born in Bradford, provide analysis and judgements as requested by networks, programme boards and partners, synthesising a range of data, evidence-based practice and research to present solutions to complex and multiple problems

• Develop and continue to deliver clear communication to the Strategic and Operational Project Boards

• Embed effective patient and public engagement and ensure that findings and feedback from patients is used to inform any re-design aspects of the service

• Ensure that the project is locally integrated, complements and adds value to existing and planned initiatives by acting as the direct link to local partnerships and health system networks

• Demonstrate participative leadership by working effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing professional support and development as well as promoting a culture of innovation

• Manage own workload and make informed decisions independently on behalf of project with appropriate and timely escalation of relevant risks and issues to the Director of Quality and Performance or other designated contact.

• Carry out research and development activities to ensure best practice and innovation is embedded across all aspects of the programme, and used to inform future developments across the programme of work

• Work with regional and national organisations including Public Health England and NHS England and Improvement and the Local Maternity System to respond to requirements and sharing good practice to influence national direction based on local approaches.

• Ensure effective communication and negotiation acting as a key link between the projects and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of a range of complex programmes within a highly complex political agenda.

• Deliver subject expertise on the health inequalities agenda to a range of stakeholders and advocate for public health messaging when this may be challenging and potentially controversial.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or degree level intellect with management training
• Experience of working at that level/ or degree in Public health

Desirable

• Higher level degree
• Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent
• Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent; MSP Foundation or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Programme and project management:
• Sound understanding of best practice in project management
• Extensive knowledge and experience of successful project management
• Significant experience of working in an established programme and project management environment within a complex organisational setting
• Track record of managing successful programme and project delivery in line with desired outcomes and agreed quality, time and cost limits
• Experience of working successfully on multiple projects at the same time
• Demonstrable experience of identifying and managing project interdependencies and implications that cross service boundaries.
• Programme and project management methodologies, tools and techniques:
• Knowledge of and experience in successfully applying recognised programme and project management methodologies with in-depth knowledge of at least one core set of methodologies
• Proven experience of appropriate use of project management tools and techniques to enable successful programme and project delivery
• Partnership and Collaborative working:
• Experience of building and maintaining constructive partnership and collaborative relationships
• Demonstrable experience of working with patients and external stakeholders to manage and deliver complex projects
• Knowledge and experience of how to secure strategic influence and successful business negotiation to achieve required outcomes
• Resource Management:
• Demonstrable experience of effective resource management within a complex working environment and/or complex organisation
• Successful experience of managing staff and contractors to achieve specific required outcomes
• Experience of sound financial management in line with agreed budgets and timescales
• Successful experience of managing project teams to achieve required objectives in situations where there is no direct hierarchical authority
• Change Management and Business Process Re-engineering:
• Experience of enabling and delivering effective change to services using recognised change methodologies, models and techniques
• Knowledge of and experience in successful business process reengineering
• Understanding patient needs:
• Knowledge and understanding of inclusion health patient population
• Delivering to target:
• Demonstrable experience of delivering programmes and projects to desired outcomes and within quality, time and cost limits
• IT skills:
• Thorough understanding and use of Microsoft Office suite together with some understanding and use of specialist project management software
• Knowledge of appropriate IT systems including Configuration Management; Change Control Management; Report design and development; and managing risks and issues.
• Essential Strategy
• Ability to see and understand the bigger picture and to relate it to own work programme and projects
• Management
• Ability to plan and organise and to ensure that deadlines and agreed targets are met
• Ability to lead a team and to delegate responsibility while maintaining overall direction in order to effectively manage change
• Ability to work as part of a team, to lead key areas of work and to mentor colleagues who are leading on other aspects
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders in complex and challenging situations
• Ability to utilise a wide range of management skills and techniques to ensure the effective use of resources and so enable successful project delivery.
• Analysis
• High level logical reasoning and analytical abilities capable of breaking down and understanding complex issues and business operations and their inter-relationships
• Flexibility
• Ability to adapt personal style to meet the circumstances of a situation and so enable the constructive and positive progress of issues and projects.
• Ability to adapt and willingness to get involved in a variety of activities
• Communications
• Excellent oral, written and presentational communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills in group and one-to-one situations with strong negotiating, influencing and persuasion abilities
• Ability to inspire teams
• Financial management
• Ability to plan and manage budgets and to exercise firm financial control and budgetary management across programme areas and individual projects
• IT
• Good hands-on abilities in Microsoft Office and Project and other specialist project management applications
• Customer and partner relations
• Able to build and maintain strong and constructive business relations with internal and external customers and partners

Desirable

• Knowledge of public, not-for-profit and private organisations involved in provision of services to the Bradford area
• Multiple Contact Channels - Knowledge and management experience of multiple contact
• channels (phone, web, face to face) and the interrelationship of channels of communication
• Experience of delivering and managing IT projects using different project management
• techniques such as PRINCE 2
• Knowledge of key Information Management principles and to have an understanding of the role which information management plays within an organisation experience of working with suppliers /partners over phone/email
• Experience of providing Board level support
• Experience of maintaining company bank account
• Knowledge/Experience of working with Social Enterprises
• Knowledge/Experience of working in inclusion health
• Knowledge/Experience of working in NHS services
• Ability to train others in approved methodologies and to encourage and enable development of others by tutoring/mentoring people working on programmes and projects
• Ability to travel independently to locations around the locality in relation to programme and project activities
• Experience of using IT systems

Personal attributes

Essential

• Able to manage a diverse workload
• Flexible approach to workload undertaken
• Tactful and diplomatic
• Dependable and reliable
• Resilient

Desirable

• Willing to rise to the challenge of new tasks and to use initiative/be proactive
• Solution-focused
• Ability to quickly build rapport

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

Bevan Healthcare CIC

Address

14-16 Piccadilly

Bradford

BD1 3LS

Employer's website

https://bevanhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)