Senior Project Manager

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the NHS Informatics Merseyside team seeking to improve health and deliver excellent care through digitisation.

The Senior Project Manager Manager role will be responsible for ensuring projects are well planned, co-ordinated and their benefits identified and realised on delivery. You will be expected to use your knowledge and experience to deliver projects within cost and time constraints and your personal style to bring stakeholders on board to ensure successful implementation. You will need strong influencing skills as well as experience of developing business cases.

Shortlisting is planned for: 24th May 2022

Interviews are planned for: 31st May 2022

Main duties of the job

  • Provide project management expertise and advice within IM, Partner and Non- Partner
  • Deliver a customer orientated service to meet the business requirements of Informatics Merseyside Partner Organisations (POs) in line with the local and National IM&T priorities and strategies.
  • Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical
  • Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 and IM Project Management standards.
  • Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure successful integration of information systems into clinical practice
  • Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure which is supported by IM, as well as Partner and Non-partner organisations.

About us

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist inpatient and community mental health,learning disabilities, addiction and acquired brain injury services for the people of Liverpool, Sefton and Kirkby, Merseyside. We also provide community physical health services in Liverpool, Sefton, secure mental health services for the North West of England, the West Midlands and Wales and specialist learning disability services across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside.

Our ambition is to deliver perfect care to become the world's leading organisation in holistic health and well being.

Mersey Care's vision and values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Support (CARES) drive our organisation and the way we work together to deliver services. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate, during recruitment and anysubsequent employment with the Trust, that their behaviour supports our values.

Date posted

06 May 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-CORP4110973

Job locations

Saturn House

Knowsley Business Park

Liverpool

L34 9GJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

To be successful in this position, you will need to be resilient and have the ability to easily flex your approach in a changing environment. Ideally the post holder should have experience of:

  • A strong track record in programme, project and change management
  • Working within IT or Business Change projects.
  • Using role experience to feed into organisation/service strategy.
  • Being able to organise, plan and prioritise changing workloads while achieving delivery targets.
  • A good understanding of how to engage others to deliver successful, often contentious, projects and programmes.
  • Prior knowledge and experience of healthcare would be an advantage for this position
  • Additionally, the post holder should have proven communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to use tact and persuasion and be able to build long term strategic relationships, communicating clearly and regularly with stakeholders (internal and external).

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be successful in this position, you will need to be resilient and have the ability to easily flex your approach in a changing environment. Ideally the post holder should have experience of:

  • A strong track record in programme, project and change management
  • Working within IT or Business Change projects.
  • Using role experience to feed into organisation/service strategy.
  • Being able to organise, plan and prioritise changing workloads while achieving delivery targets.
  • A good understanding of how to engage others to deliver successful, often contentious, projects and programmes.
  • Prior knowledge and experience of healthcare would be an advantage for this position
  • Additionally, the post holder should have proven communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to use tact and persuasion and be able to build long term strategic relationships, communicating clearly and regularly with stakeholders (internal and external).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant degree or equivalent experience
  • A clinical, nursing or therapies qualification for those projects requiring clinical expertise
  • Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or equivalent

Desirable

  • ITIL Foundation.

Experience

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge and indepth experience of working in a project environment
  • Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
  • Experience of managing a project team
  • Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
  • Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
  • Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
  • Teaching and presentation skills
  • Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
  • Analyses of non-routine data, interpretation and resolution

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an NHS environment
  • A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Communication

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
  • Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
  • Ability to present project management techniques and tools
  • Ability to discuss project management technical details with non-technical users.
  • Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience

Other

Essential

  • Ability to lead a team of diverse individuals to deliver projects to meet aims and objectives
  • Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Ability to check own and others work to ensure all
  • Clinical staff will be required to maintain professional registration with appropriate clinical body
  • Able to commute to all sites within Informatics Merseyside boundary
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant degree or equivalent experience
  • A clinical, nursing or therapies qualification for those projects requiring clinical expertise
  • Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or equivalent

Desirable

  • ITIL Foundation.

Experience

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge and indepth experience of working in a project environment
  • Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
  • Experience of managing a project team
  • Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
  • Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
  • Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
  • Teaching and presentation skills
  • Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
  • Analyses of non-routine data, interpretation and resolution

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an NHS environment
  • A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Communication

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
  • Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
  • Ability to present project management techniques and tools
  • Ability to discuss project management technical details with non-technical users.
  • Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience

Other

Essential

  • Ability to lead a team of diverse individuals to deliver projects to meet aims and objectives
  • Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project.
  • Ability to check own and others work to ensure all
  • Clinical staff will be required to maintain professional registration with appropriate clinical body
  • Able to commute to all sites within Informatics Merseyside boundary

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Saturn House

Knowsley Business Park

Liverpool

L34 9GJ


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Saturn House

Knowsley Business Park

Liverpool

L34 9GJ


Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Strategic Account Manager & Head of PPM

Ryan Lomax

Ryan.Lomax@imerseyside.nhs.uk

07887650387

Date posted

06 May 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

350-CORP4110973

Job locations

Saturn House

Knowsley Business Park

Liverpool

L34 9GJ


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