Job summary
Join our team within the Children and Young People with Mental Health Presentations in Acute Care Settings Workstream, aimed at enhancing outcomes for young individuals experiencing mental health challenges in acute hospital settings.
With a focus on public health, this role will centre on the eating disorder and emotional dysregulation pathways across West Yorkshire. Key responsibilities include mapping existing provisions, analysing impacts and outcomes, and identifying areas for improvement in the care and support provided to children and young people on these pathways.
As the project coordinator, you will lead the delivery of project objectives within set timelines, while also contributing insights to relevant workstreams across different localities and regions. The position entails extensive engagement with various stakeholders, including NHS bodies, statutory and non-statutory partners, and the wider community.
Main duties of the job
As a pivotal team member, you will champion effective communication and negotiation strategies, bridging the gap between projects and stakeholders to ensure seamless project success. Leveraging your adept influencing and negotiation skills, you'll adeptly secure delivery from partners, even without direct line management authority.
Your role will entail active participation in meetings with partners, where you'll provide comprehensive updates on project progress to diverse audiences. Skilfully interpreting and presenting complex information, you'll lead the way in evaluation plans and feedback collection, ensuring stakeholder engagement and alignment.
In project planning phases, you'll play a crucial role in defining task scope using proven methodologies. Taking charge of service developments aimed at improving health outcomes for young individuals, you'll meticulously align initiatives with industry best practices.
Your responsibilities extend to designing and implementing a robust monitoring framework for activities, effectively managing cross-program interdependencies. Drawing from appropriate data sources, you'll conduct insightful analyses to prepare comprehensive project reports.
Maintaining accountability is key; you'll ensure adherence to milestone plans, promptly identifying risks andinitiating remedial actions as needed. Furthermore, you'll actively foster a culture of learning, disseminating project outcomes across West Yorkshire to promote continuous improvement.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communications & Relationship Skills
- Ensure effective communication and negotiation, acting as a key link between the projects and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the project aims.
- Use a range of influencing and negotiating skills and strategies to ensure delivery from partners for whom there is no direct line management responsibility and where contributors may at times be more senior than the project coordinator post.
- Attend, where required, meetings with a range of partners at key points within the project to report progres This may require formal and informal presentation of project and workstream progress and relevant information to different audiences, including larger groups of people
Analytical & Judgmental Skills
- Present highly complex and possibly sensitive information to a range of stakeholders.
- Provide analysis and advice as requested by partners.
- Demonstrate skills including interpretation, analysis and presentation of highly complex information including quantitative and qualitative data.
- Lead and support evaluation plans for the programme and feedback from a broad range of stakeholder This will evidence the success of local projects and new service developments including the use of techniques such as surveys and audits
Planning & Organisational Skills
- Contribute to the development of the project plan including defining the scope of any tasks in accordance with successful programme methodologies.
- Lead on service developments to improve health outcomes for young people with eating disorders and/or emotional dysregulation across West Yorkshire, ensuring service developments are informed by local, national and international best practice and policies.
- Be responsible for leading the design and implementation of a monitoring framework of activities and outcomes as well as ongoing management of cross programme interdependencies, resources and project level risks and issues.
- Identify and scope appropriate data sources to inform projects. Collate and analyse complex and sensitive data to support and prepare project related reports (including presentations) to the required standard.
- Hold others to account, in line with agreed milestone plans and delivery targets, identifying risks and initial remedial actions through a high support and high challenge approach
Policy and Service Development
- Support the development of a learning culture across organisations through the effective dissemination of learning outcomes from the project across West Yorkshire.
- Support a cross-regional analysis of policy and process, applying a critical eye and supporting services and providers to be impact led and address their gaps in provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communications & Relationship Skills
- Ensure effective communication and negotiation, acting as a key link between the projects and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the project aims.
- Use a range of influencing and negotiating skills and strategies to ensure delivery from partners for whom there is no direct line management responsibility and where contributors may at times be more senior than the project coordinator post.
- Attend, where required, meetings with a range of partners at key points within the project to report progres This may require formal and informal presentation of project and workstream progress and relevant information to different audiences, including larger groups of people
Analytical & Judgmental Skills
- Present highly complex and possibly sensitive information to a range of stakeholders.
- Provide analysis and advice as requested by partners.
- Demonstrate skills including interpretation, analysis and presentation of highly complex information including quantitative and qualitative data.
- Lead and support evaluation plans for the programme and feedback from a broad range of stakeholder This will evidence the success of local projects and new service developments including the use of techniques such as surveys and audits
Planning & Organisational Skills
- Contribute to the development of the project plan including defining the scope of any tasks in accordance with successful programme methodologies.
- Lead on service developments to improve health outcomes for young people with eating disorders and/or emotional dysregulation across West Yorkshire, ensuring service developments are informed by local, national and international best practice and policies.
- Be responsible for leading the design and implementation of a monitoring framework of activities and outcomes as well as ongoing management of cross programme interdependencies, resources and project level risks and issues.
- Identify and scope appropriate data sources to inform projects. Collate and analyse complex and sensitive data to support and prepare project related reports (including presentations) to the required standard.
- Hold others to account, in line with agreed milestone plans and delivery targets, identifying risks and initial remedial actions through a high support and high challenge approach
Policy and Service Development
- Support the development of a learning culture across organisations through the effective dissemination of learning outcomes from the project across West Yorkshire.
- Support a cross-regional analysis of policy and process, applying a critical eye and supporting services and providers to be impact led and address their gaps in provision.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Practical experience of managing multiple successful projects, including the development of complex project management frameworks, monitoring and review processes.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of collaborative working essential, with proven ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels across a wide range of organisations.
- Ability to interpret data and achieve results through influence and negotiation with a wide range of stakeholders.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and the key priorities for the Partnership as well as in-depth knowledge and understanding of whole system working and how integrated working can improve outcomes.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Practical experience of managing multiple successful projects, including the development of complex project management frameworks, monitoring and review processes.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of collaborative working essential, with proven ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels across a wide range of organisations.
- Ability to interpret data and achieve results through influence and negotiation with a wide range of stakeholders.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and the key priorities for the Partnership as well as in-depth knowledge and understanding of whole system working and how integrated working can improve outcomes.
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.
