Job summary
The Clinical Innovation Project Manager facilitates the delivery of the Trust Innovation Strategy and CUHP innovation strategy and provides a point of contact between the Trust and innovators who wish to work in partnership to address unmet needs, surface and commercialise good ideas and improve patient outcomes.
The post-holder will assist CPFT's vision become an exemplar site for innovation within the NHS, supporting creative and entrepreneurial staff to exploit their good ideas across the broad spectrum of innovation from simple service improvements, through to the commercial development of new devices to the benefit of our patients, staff and the organisation as a whole.
The post holder will be responsible for operational oversight and day-to-day coordination of projects and work packages related to the adoption and spread of innovation. A key role will be to develop and foster key relationships between the NHS and the wider ecosystem (industry, universities, and businesses).
The role will have responsibilities to Cambridge University Health Partners to support alignment of work across CUHP partners particularly the innovation portfolio and shared learning across partners. They will also work closely wtih colleagues from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS)the NIHR Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) East of England, and Eastern Academic Health Science Network (Eastern AHSN) and will take part in Eastern AHSN's Innovation Review Panel.
Main duties of the job
- To identify, promote and facilitate opportunities across CPFT to engage with industry, initially focusing on three themes aligned with CPFT and CUHP strategic foci:
- Technological advances to improve mental health and/or associated care pathways
- Technological advances to support healthy ageing and community services
- Value-based contracting and reimbursement to drive better patient outcomes
- To conduct systematic horizon scanning for relevant, high quality, commercial solutions as well as opportunities to co-create and develop initiatives with industry
- To conduct a series of priority-setting exercises and workshops across CPFT stakeholders - including clinical directorates, staff roles (leadership, medical staffing, nursing, etc.) and carer, service user and patient groups.
- To develop a series of use cases which identify the key clinical and operational challenges across CPFT with most potential to be improved by health technology solutions.
- To support the development of innovation landing zones in the NHS Trusts across CUHP, including CPFT, to keep practices aligned and to develop shared resorces
- To support the delivery of a common innovation pathway and experience for innovators across CUHP
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of ourethnic minority andLGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide day-to-day operational support to ensure the delivery of effective project management and administrative support to facilitate the implementation and adoption of innovation
- Liaise closely with internal and external partners in the delivery of the projects to ensure timely achievement of key milestones
- Help to set up, execute and record action items for all relevant project meetings.
- Develop and maintain an activity database of the project(s) activity. Analyse data collected and generate metrics as required by relevant stakeholders
- Monitor progress of projects to ensure compliance with objectives and proposed outputs which will include the quality and timeliness of data collection.
- Obtain appropriate approval for individual project proposals including preparation of standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Plan and coordinate the effective and timely completion of all associated ethics and governance requirements for any project.
- Ensure all project management documents are regularly updated and reflect accurately the status of any project. E.g., risk register.
- Support the running of implementation and adoption projects and will be able to produce reports and up to date information on the outputs to all relevant Partners.
- Lead on specific issues and prepare / deliver presentations and reports as required
- Ensure that all project plans and key milestones are met and reported on regularly as per Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- The post holder will organise, accurately record, monitor, and schedule all project work activities relating to the relevant project(s). This will also include any submission of future initiatives.
- Ensure that performance indicators are reported in a timely and accurate fashion as required to meeting the requirements of the workstream and PMO.
- Ensure appropriate governance is in place to support effective decision making.
- Challenge existing practise, ensuring progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practise and deliver best value.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
- Consider the impact of any change the projects will have internally and/or on the wider system and ensure wide engagement to secure full ownership and buy-in.
- Measure project progress and provide the information and support necessary to enable the projects to be controlled and steered to successful completion. This includes analysis and assessment of project data, and capacity and demand data.
- Take responsibility for performance reporting, project management and/or organisational development in the delivery of service transformation, using Lean and other change methodologies, and to understand interdependencies with other initiatives.
- Ensure risks and issues are identified, reported effectively and counter measures are in place. Where necessary ensure the appropriate escalation and corrective action to ensure these are resolved.
- Provide expert advice on service improvement and to lead on service development and develop and document policies and protocols for activities within their responsibility. Work with other teams / working groups to develop policies for directorate-wide or Trust wide changes
- Project manage project teams to deliver Trust-wide transformation projects which may include care pathway development
- Support the project in taking corporate responsibility for improvement, be actively involved in developing key messages, priorities and information to the Executive Board and beyond.
- Analyse complex facts and data to support problem solving and project solutions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide day-to-day operational support to ensure the delivery of effective project management and administrative support to facilitate the implementation and adoption of innovation
- Liaise closely with internal and external partners in the delivery of the projects to ensure timely achievement of key milestones
- Help to set up, execute and record action items for all relevant project meetings.
- Develop and maintain an activity database of the project(s) activity. Analyse data collected and generate metrics as required by relevant stakeholders
- Monitor progress of projects to ensure compliance with objectives and proposed outputs which will include the quality and timeliness of data collection.
- Obtain appropriate approval for individual project proposals including preparation of standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Plan and coordinate the effective and timely completion of all associated ethics and governance requirements for any project.
- Ensure all project management documents are regularly updated and reflect accurately the status of any project. E.g., risk register.
- Support the running of implementation and adoption projects and will be able to produce reports and up to date information on the outputs to all relevant Partners.
- Lead on specific issues and prepare / deliver presentations and reports as required
- Ensure that all project plans and key milestones are met and reported on regularly as per Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- The post holder will organise, accurately record, monitor, and schedule all project work activities relating to the relevant project(s). This will also include any submission of future initiatives.
- Ensure that performance indicators are reported in a timely and accurate fashion as required to meeting the requirements of the workstream and PMO.
- Ensure appropriate governance is in place to support effective decision making.
- Challenge existing practise, ensuring progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practise and deliver best value.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
- Consider the impact of any change the projects will have internally and/or on the wider system and ensure wide engagement to secure full ownership and buy-in.
- Measure project progress and provide the information and support necessary to enable the projects to be controlled and steered to successful completion. This includes analysis and assessment of project data, and capacity and demand data.
- Take responsibility for performance reporting, project management and/or organisational development in the delivery of service transformation, using Lean and other change methodologies, and to understand interdependencies with other initiatives.
- Ensure risks and issues are identified, reported effectively and counter measures are in place. Where necessary ensure the appropriate escalation and corrective action to ensure these are resolved.
- Provide expert advice on service improvement and to lead on service development and develop and document policies and protocols for activities within their responsibility. Work with other teams / working groups to develop policies for directorate-wide or Trust wide changes
- Project manage project teams to deliver Trust-wide transformation projects which may include care pathway development
- Support the project in taking corporate responsibility for improvement, be actively involved in developing key messages, priorities and information to the Executive Board and beyond.
- Analyse complex facts and data to support problem solving and project solutions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
- Change Management Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of project management in health/social care
- Good understanding of project management methodologies and experience in project planning, including project stage co-ordination facilitating implementation, benefits realisation
- Ability to organise and manage working groups
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
- Change Management Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of project management in health/social care
- Good understanding of project management methodologies and experience in project planning, including project stage co-ordination facilitating implementation, benefits realisation
- Ability to organise and manage working groups
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).
