Project Manager – Transformation

Job summary

Yorkshire Ambulance Service are embarking on a major transformation project to change the primary triage tool for 999 call handling in the Emergency Operations Centre from AMPDS ProQA to NHS Pathways, in order to provide the most appropriate patient care and improve operational efficiency. This is an exciting new role to support the successful delivery of this project.

The Project Manager will be a key member of the project implementation team, working closely with other project team members, stakeholders across the organisation and external partners. They will be responsible for the delivery of one or more workstreams, ensuring that timescales, project objectives, benefits and outcomes are achieved within agreed tolerances. This will progress significant organisational change, including establishing new systems and ways of working, and retraining of staff.

Main duties of the job

The Project Manager will:

• be responsible for delivery of a clear and agreed projects of work aligned to the Trust's Transformation Strategy. Be responsible for ensuring effective project governance is in place, developing and presenting a variety of documents and reports, developing plans, managing, and monitoring progress, risks and issues and providing stakeholder management and communications.
• ensure that standard project management methodologies are consistently applied. They will be responsible for maintaining and monitoring progress on all aspects of the project, enabling robust monthly reports to be delivered to the Executive Transformation Programme Board and other key meetings.
• be responsible for leading and managing the project from its initial set up through the delivery of new capabilities and realisation of benefits to project closure.
• determine which issues among the projects should be escalated and dealing with the escalated issues.
• be responsible for day-to-day delivery and benefit realisation.
• provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, and communicate its messages to a wide range of stakeholders in a range of settings.
• support the continuous improvement of the Trust PMO to enhance project management standards and capability across the Trust, improving overall delivery confidence in, and reducing risk for, the design and delivery of inter-related change projects and programmes.

About us

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.Benefits:o Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)o 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.o Contributory Pension.o NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.o Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)o Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.o Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.o Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

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