Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a motivated and organised PMO Lead to join the Group Digital Services Team at Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT).
We are looking for skilled, enthusiastic, and dedicated staff with a delivery focus who can align to our values and behaviours. You will be delivering exciting change initiatives, service improvements and defined projects across our portfolio of work, supporting the achievement of the MFT Digital Strategy and wider organisational strategies and digital aspirations.
You will form part of a growing, motivated, and supportive team and will be well placed to develop your skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
This is a busy and rewarding role in a team which supports the transformation of services through the utilisation of technology in accordance with trust-wide business requirements. Your application must be able to demonstrate that you have a sound understanding of business change, project and programme delivery, have strong verbal, presentation and written communication skills, advanced IT skills understanding and working knowledge of digital change initiatives and the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders.
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification document attached for details of the role and comparison against your skills, experience and knowledge.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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.
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.
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
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent level qualification
- P3O or PMO Essentials Qualifications
Desirable
- Management of Risk (MoR) or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Significant, demonstrable experience of working in a lead PMO role utilising project management methodologies
- Experience in the application of PMO best practices and continuous improvement reviews.
- Extensive experience in using a range of MS Office products (Sharepoint, Word, Excel etc) for creating, recording and storing project information
- Experience of supporting change delivery in a fast paced environment
Desirable
- Experience of coaching and mentoring in PMO practices and processes
- Knowledge of challenges that affect project delivery within an NHS setting
- Experience of creating and maintaining SharePoint document libraries
- Experience of change delivery in an NHS Informatics environment
Training
Essential
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development relevant to the role
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to manage a range of activities to support the formulation of plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness.
- Demonstrates a high level of communication skills
- Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- Ability to manage complex tasks to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment
- Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, self-aware, controlled and confident
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals
Desirable
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required
- Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment
- An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
- Experience of facilitating workshops
- Ability to review and reflect on process, identify enhancements and make improvements
- Ability to organise others to meet planned deadlines
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent level qualification
- P3O or PMO Essentials Qualifications
Desirable
- Management of Risk (MoR) or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Significant, demonstrable experience of working in a lead PMO role utilising project management methodologies
- Experience in the application of PMO best practices and continuous improvement reviews.
- Extensive experience in using a range of MS Office products (Sharepoint, Word, Excel etc) for creating, recording and storing project information
- Experience of supporting change delivery in a fast paced environment
Desirable
- Experience of coaching and mentoring in PMO practices and processes
- Knowledge of challenges that affect project delivery within an NHS setting
- Experience of creating and maintaining SharePoint document libraries
- Experience of change delivery in an NHS Informatics environment
Training
Essential
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development relevant to the role
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to manage a range of activities to support the formulation of plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness.
- Demonstrates a high level of communication skills
- Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- Ability to manage complex tasks to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment
- Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, self-aware, controlled and confident
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals
Desirable
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required
- Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment
- An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
- Experience of facilitating workshops
- Ability to review and reflect on process, identify enhancements and make improvements
- Ability to organise others to meet planned deadlines
Additional information
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).
