Job summary
To ensure the safe and effective delivery of The Community Mental Health Transformation programme, acting as a point of contact internally and externally for project communication.
Main duties of the job
- Report progress to the Deputy Divisional director and Head of Operations throughout the project.
- Work closely with the above and budget co-ordinator ensuring all budget items are tracked and reported on.
- Work closely with partners, departmental directors and leads to deliver project plans.
- Lead project management support to a controlled delivery programme of activities.
- Plan all aspects of project management with relevant stakeholders, documenting, monitoring and evaluating project plans.
- Ensure project management methodology deliverables are completed in accordance with project direction.
- Manage and track project delivery processes and timeline.
- Monitor the critical path, contingencies and scope changes.
- Monitor customer satisfaction and implements process improvement.
- Attend all relevant project related meetings.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the manager from time to time.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a result of the post-holder being effective in their role, The Trust would expect to see the following outcomes for the Trust, service users and the wider community:
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical health, addiction services and learning disability care.
- Service users receiving a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
- Staff engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
- Visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers
- The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a result of the post-holder being effective in their role, The Trust would expect to see the following outcomes for the Trust, service users and the wider community:
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical health, addiction services and learning disability care.
- Service users receiving a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
- Staff engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
- Visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers
- The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Formal Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practicioner
- Other Project Management qualification such as change management
Knowledge/ experience
Essential
- Project management experience in the public sector or equivalent experience in the private sector
- Strategic management
- Managing relationship
- Achieving goals
- Demonstrable ability of leading teams in transforming complex multi-site operational services
- Experience of leading successful projects on time and within budgets
- Can translate and deliver it, by generating achievable goals, which enable staff to engage with and understand local priorities.
- Is aware of developments and significant issues which impact on an organisation and contributes to its strategy by developing its strengths and minimising risk whilst considering the implications of change
Desirable
- Management experience in delivering service support change in a health care environment
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to understand financial management systems and effectively manage significant project budgets
- Demonstrable ability to manage project and programme expenditure
- Computer literate with a good working knowledge of information systems and their role in supporting good project management
- Ability to Analyse complex data
- Excellent knowledge of risk management.
- Proficient in Office, Excel, etc.
- Communication Skills
- Excellent team member with the ability to maintain objective relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
- Demonstrable ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in planning and delivering projects
- Managing People
- Experience of building good working relationships with stakeholders including trade unions, professional associations and external agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Formal Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practicioner
- Other Project Management qualification such as change management
Knowledge/ experience
Essential
- Project management experience in the public sector or equivalent experience in the private sector
- Strategic management
- Managing relationship
- Achieving goals
- Demonstrable ability of leading teams in transforming complex multi-site operational services
- Experience of leading successful projects on time and within budgets
- Can translate and deliver it, by generating achievable goals, which enable staff to engage with and understand local priorities.
- Is aware of developments and significant issues which impact on an organisation and contributes to its strategy by developing its strengths and minimising risk whilst considering the implications of change
Desirable
- Management experience in delivering service support change in a health care environment
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to understand financial management systems and effectively manage significant project budgets
- Demonstrable ability to manage project and programme expenditure
- Computer literate with a good working knowledge of information systems and their role in supporting good project management
- Ability to Analyse complex data
- Excellent knowledge of risk management.
- Proficient in Office, Excel, etc.
- Communication Skills
- Excellent team member with the ability to maintain objective relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
- Demonstrable ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in planning and delivering projects
- Managing People
- Experience of building good working relationships with stakeholders including trade unions, professional associations and external agencies
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.
