Job summary
Band 7 Project Manager
2 posts available
Are you looking for a new, exciting challenge? Would you like the opportunity to support the delivery of the Long Term Plan Treating Tobacco Dependence agenda? This is an excellent opportunity for a project manager to join Manchester Foundation Trust as part of NHS Greater Manchester (GM) Integrated Care Treating Tobacco Dependence Team.
We are expanding our team and are looking to recruit a project manager to join the Treating Tobacco Dependency team. The role will be offering clinical support and advice within Trusts across GM to support delivery of NHS England Long Term Plan programmes, to ensure all elements of the programme are delivered with care, are effective and sustainable in all local services.
We encourage applicants who are driven andteam players with excellent stakeholder management and written & verbal skills, with the ability to use their own initiative in a fast-paced and continuously evolving environment. Applicants should be an excellent communicator, confident in delivering transformational change across whole system pathways, understand the Long Term Plan Tobacco deliverables, and hold relevant skills in project management. We will be keen to develop and support our successful candidates.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will:
- Facilitate effective working relationships with local service providers and system wide stakeholders and support strategic decision making, implementation, communication, risks and issues and assurance
- Develop robust and sustainable working relationships with multiple stakeholders across the Region and ICSs including clinicians, commissioners, health and social care providers, public health, patient and carer representation, and other managerial leads
- Work to deliver an effective service supporting managers and staff across NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care to improve delivery of the Long Term Plan, using new national policy and NHS England investment.
- Work closely with stakeholders across primary care and secondary care and with stakeholders from multiple specialist areas including general practice, respiratory, mental health, physiotherapy, occupational health, maternity services and primary care services
- Coordinate and deliver policy-specific projects, supported by the Programme team and wider make Smoking History Team within the GM Population Health team and with the GM Provider Collaborative
- Work across the GM system in delivering the CURE, Smokfree pregnancy programmes with some more intensive work within menta health services in the coming year
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
both
Essential
- Knowledge of tobacco control and public health: acquired through training to relevant degree level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of procurement/commissioning and contract management including budget management
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of project management qualifications, principles, techniques and tools
Desirable
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Person Specification
both
Essential
- Knowledge of tobacco control and public health: acquired through training to relevant degree level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of procurement/commissioning and contract management including budget management
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Evidence of project management qualifications, principles, techniques and tools
Desirable
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
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).
