Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Business Change Manager to join our team...
The North East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Alliance (NEY GMSA) is one of seven alliances across England. An Alliance of NHS Provider Trusts in Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, its primary aim is to embed genomic medicine into routine care to improve the lives of patients with rare conditions and cancer
https://ney-genomics.org.uk
Genomics is amongst the fastest growing sectors in science and health and is already delivering transformational healthcare across the country. Our exciting programme is making genetic testing available to mainstream clinicians and offering revolutionary new diagnostics for our patients and their families.
We are currently delivering a shared GLH Laboratory Information System (G-LIMS) to transform the systems used for genomic analysis. The GLH informatics vision is to enable a single virtual laboratory that covers the whole region. Scientists will have access to the tools and data required to perform their jobs, regardless of their physical location.
You will be an enthusiastic individual, able to form relationships easily and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
You'll be familiar with business change management techniques.
- Interview Date Friday, 12 April 2024
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
Main duties of the job
This role will work in our core project team alongside our project managers and subject matter experts from the laboratories, informatics and IT teams. The G-LIMS project runs across the laboratories in Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield and we make extensive use of Microsoft Teams for day-day communications. Some travel may be required, but our 3-city structure also offers flexibility for your base location.
Key skills and abilities include:
- Determining the readiness of the Labs to accept the change and knowing what needs to be in place to enable this such as signed-off clinical safety and information governance protocols
- Understanding how the new system impacts on the current roles of our Lab colleagues and whether it changes how they do something
- Identifying any training which might be required because of the above
- Being able to articulate the reasons for the new system and its benefits
- Having a high focus on customer service and user requirements
- Capability to enthuse and take others with you
- Identifying the communication needs required to keep our Lab colleagues and other stakeholders informed
- Devising and running a regular communication strategy throughout the life of the project including newsletters, events etc
- Regular visits to the Labs to assess engagement and readiness first hand
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Direct and effective management of projects as required within time, cost and quality parameters.
- Contribute towards the delivery of the GLH Programme/Project portfolio and coordinate project inter-dependencies.
- To make a significant contribution to the aspects of the GLH strategy, which enables the Trust to meet its business goals and to achieve statutory and business reporting requirements.
- To ensure the timely and accurate production of programme status reports for senior management.
- Development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies.
- Client interaction, including developing a pipeline of work from the client, managing programmes/project priorities with the client, financial tracking and reporting, and project tracking and reporting.
- Cross-activity relationship management.
- The position will involve a considerable amount of interaction with colleagues, business groups, IT and external vendors.
- To make a considerable contribution to the ongoing development of the GLH IT Change Framework (structure, processes and controls).
- Promoting the value of the Change Framework within the change community, and driving improvements based on experience gathered from business partners. Maturing those disciplines across the organisation ensuring deliverance of a professional, high quality service.
- Contributing and developing the GLH Programme Management Operating Plan, maintaining alignment to NHS direction and policy.
- Managing effective interfaces in order to maintain an end-to-end view of programme priorities and direction.
- Feeds into and updates a register of portfolio risks and issues, including mitigation plans. Ensuring that these are escalated and acted upon effectively.
- Experience of managing stakeholders and debate, up to Director level.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Direct and effective management of projects as required within time, cost and quality parameters.
- Contribute towards the delivery of the GLH Programme/Project portfolio and coordinate project inter-dependencies.
- To make a significant contribution to the aspects of the GLH strategy, which enables the Trust to meet its business goals and to achieve statutory and business reporting requirements.
- To ensure the timely and accurate production of programme status reports for senior management.
- Development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies.
- Client interaction, including developing a pipeline of work from the client, managing programmes/project priorities with the client, financial tracking and reporting, and project tracking and reporting.
- Cross-activity relationship management.
- The position will involve a considerable amount of interaction with colleagues, business groups, IT and external vendors.
- To make a considerable contribution to the ongoing development of the GLH IT Change Framework (structure, processes and controls).
- Promoting the value of the Change Framework within the change community, and driving improvements based on experience gathered from business partners. Maturing those disciplines across the organisation ensuring deliverance of a professional, high quality service.
- Contributing and developing the GLH Programme Management Operating Plan, maintaining alignment to NHS direction and policy.
- Managing effective interfaces in order to maintain an end-to-end view of programme priorities and direction.
- Feeds into and updates a register of portfolio risks and issues, including mitigation plans. Ensuring that these are escalated and acted upon effectively.
- Experience of managing stakeholders and debate, up to Director level.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. IT, Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post
SKILLS
Essential
- Have experience of managing a team, ideally management of project or service support teams
- Have experience of delivering change management technology
- Have experience of analysing and forecasting staff and budgets
- Have experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners
- Have experience of supporting executive level Project Boards
- Be competent with the Microsoft Office Suite
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Have experience of managing multiple complex projects
- Have a good understanding of Trust policies and procedures
Desirable
- Experience of managing projects in other organisations of similar size and complexity within or outside of the NHS
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Hold a current recognised project management qualification, preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in project management techniques
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. IT, Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post
SKILLS
Essential
- Have experience of managing a team, ideally management of project or service support teams
- Have experience of delivering change management technology
- Have experience of analysing and forecasting staff and budgets
- Have experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners
- Have experience of supporting executive level Project Boards
- Be competent with the Microsoft Office Suite
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Have experience of managing multiple complex projects
- Have a good understanding of Trust policies and procedures
Desirable
- Experience of managing projects in other organisations of similar size and complexity within or outside of the NHS
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Hold a current recognised project management qualification, preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in project management techniques
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.
