Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Programme Management Office in Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), for a Project Manager on a 6 month secondment/fixed term contract.
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.
Please note that this is a fixed term/secondment post from the 1st of April 2024 until the 30th of September, due to funding.
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; Welsh and/or English 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/
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.
- Experience in delivering projects to quality, time and budget requirements, preferably within a change programme environment
- Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
- Excellent overall management and organisational skills
- Good working knowledge of ICT, project management and management information tools.
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information.
Desirable
- Experience of business planning process.
- Experience of workforce planning
- Ability to adapt and deal with situations and manage expectations during periods of change and be able to take account of the broader perspective and how it affects other areas.
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
- Capable of understanding the wider objectives of the Programme
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 manage expectations.
- 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.
- Diplomacy and ability to deal with difficult situations.
- Leadership and team building skills.
- Ability to work in a high pressured environment and work to deadlines.
- Able to develop strong multi-disciplinary relationships.
- Ability to demonstrate or gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of systems of health and social care.
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
- Required to work on own initiative.
Desirable
Values
Essential
- Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
- Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Tenacious, demonstrates high level of drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Other
Essential
- Flexible approach to work and able to work outside normal office hours as required.
- Ability to travel independently between sites and across a wide geographical area.
- Self-awareness
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.
- Experience in delivering projects to quality, time and budget requirements, preferably within a change programme environment
- Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
- Excellent overall management and organisational skills
- Good working knowledge of ICT, project management and management information tools.
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information.
Desirable
- Experience of business planning process.
- Experience of workforce planning
- Ability to adapt and deal with situations and manage expectations during periods of change and be able to take account of the broader perspective and how it affects other areas.
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
- Capable of understanding the wider objectives of the Programme
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 manage expectations.
- 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.
- Diplomacy and ability to deal with difficult situations.
- Leadership and team building skills.
- Ability to work in a high pressured environment and work to deadlines.
- Able to develop strong multi-disciplinary relationships.
- Ability to demonstrate or gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of systems of health and social care.
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
- Required to work on own initiative.
Desirable
Values
Essential
- Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
- Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Tenacious, demonstrates high level of drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Other
Essential
- Flexible approach to work and able to work outside normal office hours as required.
- Ability to travel independently between sites and across a wide geographical area.
- Self-awareness
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.
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.
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).
