Job summary
B7 Project Manager BSPS
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a joint venture between Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust delivering pathology services to both acute and primary care patients across the network area. Currently the team is split across 3 sites, Frimley Park, Wexham Park and the Royal Berkshire Hospital and you may be asked to work at any of the sites so that services can be maintained.
We need a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to help us support our clinical colleagues with their IT requirements. We believe in investing in our staff and understand that staff satisfaction is inextricably linked to patient satisfaction. We also believe that it is important that we recruit staff who subscribe to our values as they are at the heart of everything we do. The values reflect the commitment we make to the people who use our services and to each other.
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate an understanding of Project Management with good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team or to lead the project teams involved in the design, integration and implementation of new systems. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, as dealing with a wide range of clinical staff and associated professionals is a significant aspect of this role.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
The successful candidate will be expected to support the Pathology IT Senior team and other colleagues as we move forward in the growth of BSPS.
DIMENSIONS OF JOB:
The post-holder will
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Lead on the management of a number of BSPS Information Management & Technology (IM&T) projects. The majority of projects will be IT Application Deployments.
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Facilitate project governance arrangements which for a standard project would include a Project Review Board chaired by an SRO and a working group chaired by the post holder.
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Use the BSPS standard project management approach
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Ensure all projects are well documented
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Ensure projects are delivered to time, budget and requirements are met and planned benefits are delivered.
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Undertake scoping, specifying and forecasting project budgets
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Managing project budgets throughout the project life cycle
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Identifying appropriate resources and capabilities, selecting and managing specialist skilled contractors for key projects.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Planning and organising
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Responsible for the projects overall progress and use of resources
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Producing business cases that impact organisation wide
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Ensuring that all project documentation is delivered to a high level in line with BSPS Pathology standards including project plans, risk and issue logs and resource forecasts.
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Where required complete other project documentation required by the Programme Manager such as Project initiation documents, project closure and lessons learned reports.
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Developing plans to address project risks and issues and taking action to implement.
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Escalating project risks and issues that cannot be resolved at project level.
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Collaborating with other project managers on dependencies across the complete BSPS project portfolio
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Ensuring that changes within the project are managed and that the impact of any individual project change is related back to its impact upon the BSPS programme as a whole.
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Ensuring that BSPS agreed change control procedures are implemented and are actively used to assess the effect of any change to the project in terms of cost, timescales and resources.
Job description
Job responsibilities
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Planning and organising
-
Responsible for the projects overall progress and use of resources
-
Producing business cases that impact organisation wide
-
Ensuring that all project documentation is delivered to a high level in line with BSPS Pathology standards including project plans, risk and issue logs and resource forecasts.
-
Where required complete other project documentation required by the Programme Manager such as Project initiation documents, project closure and lessons learned reports.
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Developing plans to address project risks and issues and taking action to implement.
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Escalating project risks and issues that cannot be resolved at project level.
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Collaborating with other project managers on dependencies across the complete BSPS project portfolio
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Ensuring that changes within the project are managed and that the impact of any individual project change is related back to its impact upon the BSPS programme as a whole.
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Ensuring that BSPS agreed change control procedures are implemented and are actively used to assess the effect of any change to the project in terms of cost, timescales and resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of PRINCE 2 and / or other project management qualification.
Competencies
Essential
- Able to develop highly effective relationships with key stakeholders including consultants, senior nurses and senior managers.
- Communicating effectively and development of communication strategies.
- Confident to deliver presentations to large groups including Board members (executive and non- executive)
- Pro-active.
- Problem solving.
- Good organisational / time management skills.
Specialist Expertise
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years project management experience (in complex NHS hospital environments or equivalent).
- Experience of delivering and completing IM&T project sof at least £100K in value or over 20 stakeholders.
- Evidence of managing multiple projects at a time.
- Experience of managing risk
- Experience in benefits management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of PRINCE 2 and / or other project management qualification.
Competencies
Essential
- Able to develop highly effective relationships with key stakeholders including consultants, senior nurses and senior managers.
- Communicating effectively and development of communication strategies.
- Confident to deliver presentations to large groups including Board members (executive and non- executive)
- Pro-active.
- Problem solving.
- Good organisational / time management skills.
Specialist Expertise
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years project management experience (in complex NHS hospital environments or equivalent).
- Experience of delivering and completing IM&T project sof at least £100K in value or over 20 stakeholders.
- Evidence of managing multiple projects at a time.
- Experience of managing risk
- Experience in benefits management.
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
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).
