Job summary
Join the Excellence Delivery Unit Team
The Excellence Delivery Unit (XDU) was set up in June 2022 to support the organisation to deliver its 5 year strategy 'Working together to discover, develop and deliver excellent eye care, sustainably and at scale'. The organisation is at an exciting time, building a new hospital (Oriel), introducing an EPR and moving towards the future eye care pathway.
The Excellence Portfolio is comprised of key projects that support this strategy. The projects are overseen by executive chaired Excellence Programme Boards and a monthly portfolio board, chaired by the Chief executive. The role of the XDU is to provide assurance of project delivery, supporting them to set up for success and deliver in line with our project lifecycle.
Main duties of the job
This fixed term post is a key role within the Excellence Delivery Unit (XDU) team with a remit to coordinate the routine progress tracking of all Excellence Portfolio projects and enable high quality administration support is provided to the executive team.
This post is a key role within the Excellence Delivery Unit (XDU), with a focus on complex, major projects and actively managing and maintaining a responsive approach to interpretation, analysis and identifying inter-dependencies.
About us
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
Free 24/7 independent counselling service
Learning and development opportunities
Easy and quick transport links
A range of attractive benefits and discounts
Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
Free Pilates classes
Full support and training to develop your skills
Flexible working friendly organisation
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include:
- Proactively oversee the implications across the Excellence Portfolio, demonstrating the ability to identify and highlight project delivery delays, particularly those affecting the critical path.
- Assist Excellence Delivery team to enhance capacity building within project teams by supporting to facilitate coaching and training initiatives.
- Provide guidance and support to improve team members' skills and effectiveness, including facilitating and highlighting opportunities to explore tailored training programs, hands-on coaching, and developing forums for sharing best practices.
- Ensure team members are well-equipped to handle project demands and contribute to successful outcomes.
- Actively develop mitigations for ongoing issues and risks, ensuring timely and effective solutions are implemented. This involves identifying potential challenges, assessing their impact, and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to execute strategies that minimise risk.
- Oversee effective utilisation of XDU project lifecycle and associated tools.
- Ensure accuracy of high-quality information presented for discussions at the Excellence Portfolio Board and Programme Boards.
- Identify and foster opportunities for collaboration, actively seeking ways to enhance teamwork and synergy across departments. This involves evaluating current processes to uncover potential areas for joint efforts, initiating cross-functional meetings to brainstorm collaborative solutions, and building strong relationships with key stakeholders to support a culture of cooperation and mutual support throughout the organisation.
- Leading the governance and reporting efforts, including leadership support within assurance forums and senior stakeholder meetings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include:
- Proactively oversee the implications across the Excellence Portfolio, demonstrating the ability to identify and highlight project delivery delays, particularly those affecting the critical path.
- Assist Excellence Delivery team to enhance capacity building within project teams by supporting to facilitate coaching and training initiatives.
- Provide guidance and support to improve team members' skills and effectiveness, including facilitating and highlighting opportunities to explore tailored training programs, hands-on coaching, and developing forums for sharing best practices.
- Ensure team members are well-equipped to handle project demands and contribute to successful outcomes.
- Actively develop mitigations for ongoing issues and risks, ensuring timely and effective solutions are implemented. This involves identifying potential challenges, assessing their impact, and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to execute strategies that minimise risk.
- Oversee effective utilisation of XDU project lifecycle and associated tools.
- Ensure accuracy of high-quality information presented for discussions at the Excellence Portfolio Board and Programme Boards.
- Identify and foster opportunities for collaboration, actively seeking ways to enhance teamwork and synergy across departments. This involves evaluating current processes to uncover potential areas for joint efforts, initiating cross-functional meetings to brainstorm collaborative solutions, and building strong relationships with key stakeholders to support a culture of cooperation and mutual support throughout the organisation.
- Leading the governance and reporting efforts, including leadership support within assurance forums and senior stakeholder meetings.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience
Education
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.
qualification
Essential
- PRINCE2(TM), AMP Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) qualification or equivalent project management qualification).
Experience
Essential
- Project management experience managing and or overseeing multiple complex projects or programmes within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a Project Management Office (PMO) environment.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience
Education
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.
qualification
Essential
- PRINCE2(TM), AMP Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) qualification or equivalent project management qualification).
Experience
Essential
- Project management experience managing and or overseeing multiple complex projects or programmes within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a Project Management Office (PMO) environment.
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.
