Project Manager

Velindre University NHS Trust

The closing date is 02 October 2024

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Programme Management Office in Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), for a Project Manager.

We are looking for a motivated, organised, enthusiastic, and experienced Project Manager who understands the challenges of delivering something new and want to use their skills to support and enable the delivery of clinical and operational projects, as outlined in the VCC IMTP.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across our organisation, managing key projects from inception to conclusion. The applicant should hold a Project Management qualification and have experience of managing multiple projects within a programme portfolio. The will have excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills and be able to use this skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders, organise events or workshops, and ensure initiation and delivery of multiple projects successfully.

Please refer to the full job description attached for further details.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/

Date posted

18 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£44,398 to £50,807 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

120-AC815-0924

Job locations

Velindre Cancer Centre

Velindre Road

Cardiff

CF14 2TL


Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

  • Masters or equivalent professional/managerial qualification.
  • PRINCE 2 registered Practitioner or other recognised qualification in project management
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development / further training

Desirable

  • Member of recognised professional body
  • Change Management Practitioner
  • PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner and/or experience.
  • MSP Practitioner
  • Knowledge of NHS structures and processes.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience of working in a complex and large scale project management environment and across organisational boundaries (and by influence).
  • Successful change management experience, with a proven track record and demonstrated ability of working collaboratively with a variety of organisational levels to deliver programme goals.
  • Experience of service improvement methodologies and applied knowledge of how they can be deployed in different settings.
  • Experience of facilitating workshops across multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Management of project budgets.
  • Successful introduction of project management methodologies to inexperienced teams and individuals.
  • Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
  • Excellent overall management and organisational skills
  • Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information

Desirable

  • Experience of business planning process.
  • Experience of workforce planning

Skills

Essential

  • Good organisational skills, and the ability to identify priorities
  • Possesses good written and oral communication skills
  • Good report drafting skills and minute taking

Desirable

  • Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Project team, stakeholders and third party service providers involved in the delivery of the projects and Programme

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner and confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to instigate and achieve change and improvement
  • Ability to prepare and present reports to management teams on project status and advice on issues and risks to detailed specifications for Trust and others as requested.
  • Leadership and team building skills.
  • Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals.
  • Ability to think clearly, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment of relevant information
  • Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
  • Required to work on own initiative.

Desirable

  • Welsh speaker

Values

Essential

  • Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
  • Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

  • Masters or equivalent professional/managerial qualification.
  • PRINCE 2 registered Practitioner or other recognised qualification in project management
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development / further training

Desirable

  • Member of recognised professional body
  • Change Management Practitioner
  • PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner and/or experience.
  • MSP Practitioner
  • Knowledge of NHS structures and processes.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience of working in a complex and large scale project management environment and across organisational boundaries (and by influence).
  • Successful change management experience, with a proven track record and demonstrated ability of working collaboratively with a variety of organisational levels to deliver programme goals.
  • Experience of service improvement methodologies and applied knowledge of how they can be deployed in different settings.
  • Experience of facilitating workshops across multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Management of project budgets.
  • Successful introduction of project management methodologies to inexperienced teams and individuals.
  • Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
  • Excellent overall management and organisational skills
  • Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information

Desirable

  • Experience of business planning process.
  • Experience of workforce planning

Skills

Essential

  • Good organisational skills, and the ability to identify priorities
  • Possesses good written and oral communication skills
  • Good report drafting skills and minute taking

Desirable

  • Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Project team, stakeholders and third party service providers involved in the delivery of the projects and Programme

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner and confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to instigate and achieve change and improvement
  • Ability to prepare and present reports to management teams on project status and advice on issues and risks to detailed specifications for Trust and others as requested.
  • Leadership and team building skills.
  • Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals.
  • Ability to think clearly, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment of relevant information
  • Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
  • Required to work on own initiative.

Desirable

  • Welsh speaker

Values

Essential

  • Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
  • Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.

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.

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

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.

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

Velindre University NHS Trust

Address

Velindre Cancer Centre

Velindre Road

Cardiff

CF14 2TL


Employer's website

https://velindre.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Velindre University NHS Trust

Address

Velindre Cancer Centre

Velindre Road

Cardiff

CF14 2TL


Employer's website

https://velindre.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Programmes and Service Improvement

Mark Evans

mark.evans20@wales.nhs.uk

Date posted

18 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£44,398 to £50,807 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

120-AC815-0924

Job locations

Velindre Cancer Centre

Velindre Road

Cardiff

CF14 2TL


Supporting documents

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