Senior Project Manager (QI)

Job summary

Senior Project Managers - Be Part of Transforming Our Future

Are you ready to lead impactful change and help shape the future of mental healthcare? As a Senior Project Manager within our Trust, you will play a pivotal role in delivering key strategic projects, driving quality improvement initiatives, and advancing our transformation programme.

With the Trust embarking on a significant period of transformation and integration through a potential merger, your expertise in Project and Programme Management (PPM) and Quality Improvement (QI) will be critical in ensuring seamless transitions and embedding lasting improvements across all areas.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading strategic projects to align services with the Trust's overarching objectives.
• Applying PPM and QI best practices to advance the Trust's transformation agenda.
• Supporting the Merger Programme and outward partnership projects to achieve successful integration and service evolution.

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your leadership, quality improvement and project management skills to a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation at a pivotal moment in its journey.

Join us and contribute to shaping the future of mental healthcare.

Main duties of the job

• Compose, revise and edit a variety of projects' correspondence, reports, records and documentation; from rough notes and drafts, and/or data analysis; including proofreads for accuracy and completeness and for compliance with policies

• Compose and review a range of communications aimed at broad national audiences, explaining complex and/or contentious information

• Facilitate and monitor progress of projects within the programme, including negotiating and communicating business sensitive information to various stakeholders at all levels

• Persuasively communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information to senior stakeholders for projects on a national scale; influence and motivate a wide range of stakeholders, including senior stakeholders from Royal Colleges, government bodies and board level NHS stakeholders; diplomatically navigate potentially arising conflicts between stakeholders regarding contentious topics

• Support the Programme Managers and Head of Strategy & Transformation in the development and preparation of the overall programme plan, and by drafting sections of papers with some data analysis as required for the relevant project

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. With 500 staff across a number of sites, we are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health. For more information, please access the following link: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/