Job summary
We are
excited to be recruiting three Locality Project Managers to join our efforts to
improve services for patients in Islington by making it the best place for our
healthcare workforce to work, learn and innovate.
Across
Islington primary care, and with our wider North Central London partners, we
are working to improve training and development for clinical and non-clinical staff,
and establishing strong links across local organisational boundaries. We harness clinical leadership to shape our
workforce and service improvement priorities, and connect primary care, local
government, higher education institutions and others together to collaborate
and deliver at-scale projects.
Increasingly, our work focuses on supporting the
integration of healthcare services at a locality level. This involves ensuring
that different health, social care, local government, education, patient group
and other partners work coherently together to meet the specific needs of their
local population.
Main duties of the job
These postholders
will report jointly into the Primary Care Network (PCN) Operational Lead and
the Workforce Operational Lead, as part of a new integration team. The role
requires a project management approach that involves considerable
responsibility for co-ordinating new models of care, development of new
initiatives, embedding new workforce and other projects in accordance with
stakeholder needs that are aligned to local, regional and national strategies.
The
post-holder will require top class organisational talent, with leadership, stakeholder
management and analytical skills. Applicants
should have experience in successfully managing complex projects and change
initiatives.
About us
Islington GP Federation (IGPF) is a growing organisation
representing 31 practices; we have established ourselves as a leader in new
ways of working, including running Islingtons extended access primary care
services (I:HUB) as well as supporting the Islington Primary Care Networks
(PCNs). Our current range of services includes I:HUB, Community ENT, Integrated
Community Gynaecology, practice-based pharmacists and a range of practice
support mechanisms.
IGPF works very closely with a range of partners including the
regional commissioning group, NHS England, Healthy London Partnership, Public
Health, local hospitals such as the Whittington Health and the London Borough
of Islington.
IGPF is
the host organisation for the Primary Care Network (PCN) workforce and the
Islington Training Hub, and has been working for over two years to create
training and development programmes that meet the needs of staff working in
primary and community care settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for a more descriptive information on the job role - Project Manager
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for a more descriptive information on the job role - Project Manager
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrated experience in successfully managing projects and change initiatives.
- Significant and demonstrated experience working in a senior administrative/project management role.
Desirable
- Understand the national policy direction for primary, community and secondary care, together with good practical and conceptual knowledge of healthcare improvement methods and practices
- Have knowledge of the regulatory and contractual frameworks for primary care contracts and business models.
- Have an operational knowledge of quality improvement and service re- design tools and techniques.
Experience
Essential
- Project Management experience
Qualifications
Essential
Skills
Essential
- Be able to communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders
- Be highly computer literate, proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products with advanced level skills in the use of excel for analysis and costing purposes as required for this operational role.
- Be emotionally intelligent with good communication skills and an ability to manage relationships over a protracted period.
- Be able to identify clear priorities for action while managing multiple stakeholder expectations
- Be self-motivated, with an ability to plan and organize own workload and cope with last minute changes.
- Able to communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and/or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders, including where there are barriers to understanding.
- Able to organize and present at meetings, workshops and other events.
- Be able to tolerate uncertainty and manage conflict
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Be able to deal with complex problem-solving situations and to think a
- way around the problem with the minimum of supervision to ensure implementation on the ground is not affected
- Be politically sensitive with highly developed diplomatic skills and be able to identify issues which may cause political sensitivity at an early stage and escalate or manage appropriately.
- Demonstrate high level of self-awareness i.e. strengths and weaknesses, personal qualities and skills.
- Be able to manage periods of high concentration, an unpredictable work pattern and multi-tasking.
- Be committed to team working and development of others
- Be committed to personal development and be willing to undertake training and other opportunities relevant to the role.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrated experience in successfully managing projects and change initiatives.
- Significant and demonstrated experience working in a senior administrative/project management role.
Desirable
- Understand the national policy direction for primary, community and secondary care, together with good practical and conceptual knowledge of healthcare improvement methods and practices
- Have knowledge of the regulatory and contractual frameworks for primary care contracts and business models.
- Have an operational knowledge of quality improvement and service re- design tools and techniques.
Experience
Essential
- Project Management experience
Qualifications
Essential
Skills
Essential
- Be able to communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders
- Be highly computer literate, proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products with advanced level skills in the use of excel for analysis and costing purposes as required for this operational role.
- Be emotionally intelligent with good communication skills and an ability to manage relationships over a protracted period.
- Be able to identify clear priorities for action while managing multiple stakeholder expectations
- Be self-motivated, with an ability to plan and organize own workload and cope with last minute changes.
- Able to communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and/or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders, including where there are barriers to understanding.
- Able to organize and present at meetings, workshops and other events.
- Be able to tolerate uncertainty and manage conflict
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Be able to deal with complex problem-solving situations and to think a
- way around the problem with the minimum of supervision to ensure implementation on the ground is not affected
- Be politically sensitive with highly developed diplomatic skills and be able to identify issues which may cause political sensitivity at an early stage and escalate or manage appropriately.
- Demonstrate high level of self-awareness i.e. strengths and weaknesses, personal qualities and skills.
- Be able to manage periods of high concentration, an unpredictable work pattern and multi-tasking.
- Be committed to team working and development of others
- Be committed to personal development and be willing to undertake training and other opportunities relevant to the role.
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.
