Job summary
A Surgical Strategy was developed for Guy's and St Thomas's sites in 2021. This involved engaging with over 200 colleagues across our clinical services, as well as patients and our executive and non-executive directors. Its focus is on how we develop and run surgical services that will benefit our patients, staff, and partners in south east London. There are several live workstreams and projects.
The Surgical Strategy requires dedicated project management to continue to deliver the strategy implementation. The Project Manager will ensure that key activities within a number of workstreams are delivered, supporting the Programme Manager to deliver the strategic implementation and improvement plans effectively. You will work closely with the Surgical Strategy Team, clinical and operational teams, corporate and sector partners, and senior leaders in our organisation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing project management and support to ensure the Surgical Strategy is delivered effectively.
The post holder will take a lead on two or more projects and be responsible for planning, day-to-day delivery, and subsequent performance management, adjusting plans as required to ensure that risks and issues are mitigated. The two projects may include:
Global Surgery:
With the support of a GSTT surgeon, lead the development of a global surgery programme at the Trust, including designing an implementation plan, KPIs and milestones, managing a steering group, and holding larger stakeholder events for feedback and direction.
Patient Engagement:
Leading on the patient engagement project within the Surgical Strategy. This would require working closely with the GSTT consultant leading the project, the Patient Engagement Team, and the Patient Steering Group.
The post holder will work with clinicians and managers to ensure provision of the best possible patient experience and service delivery. They will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies and delivery of objectives.
It is expected that the specific projects managed by the post holder will change over time, as the portfolio of work develops. The post holder should be comfortable adapting to an environment where things can change, be flexible, and have the ability to drive projects forward in spite of challenges.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Education
Essential
- Educated to bachelor degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience
- Formal qualification in Project management (PRINCE 2) to practitioner level or equivalent
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
Previous experience
Essential
- Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures
- Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment
- Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas
Skills / Knowledge / Ability
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques
- Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management
- Highly effective people and project management skills
- Use advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of statistical and numerical data.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change
- Excellent management skills including motivating and coaching staff.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively
- Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in particular in Excel and MS Project
Person Specification
Qualifications / Education
Essential
- Educated to bachelor degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience
- Formal qualification in Project management (PRINCE 2) to practitioner level or equivalent
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
Previous experience
Essential
- Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures
- Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment
- Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas
Skills / Knowledge / Ability
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques
- Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management
- Highly effective people and project management skills
- Use advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of statistical and numerical data.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change
- Excellent management skills including motivating and coaching staff.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively
- Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in particular in Excel and MS Project
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).
