Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and professional individual to join the Greater Manchester Integrated Care, in a fast paced and dynamic team working as Senior Project Manager in the Greater Manchester Dementia United Team.
The successful post-holder will join the team delivering the ambitions for Dementia United in the Greater Manchester area. This role is available as a part-time 22.50 hours per week - with flexible/hybrid/agile working options available.
In this role the successful candidate will work in partnership with people affected by dementia across all 10 boroughs, delivering improvements to the quality and experience, care, support and well-being of people affected by dementia and their families.
You will be accountable and responsible to the Senior Programme Manager for Dementia United.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for the role for more details. The ideal candidate will have:
- Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines
- Good working knowledge and experience of project management techniques
- Experience of engagement with varied groups of stakeholders, including clinicians and people with lived experience of dementia
- A passion for co-production and quality improvement
- The ability to research topics and produce concise written synopses
- Competent IT skills with good experience using Microsoft Office Software and remote working
- Some knowledge and interest in dementia and brain health
There is a real opportunity in this role to help make a difference for people and families in Greater Manchester. We value team members who can provide professional support, critical challenge and creative contribution but, above all, we want people who put people, carers and the quality of care they receive at the heart of all they do. Applicants are also strongly advised to focus their application on the criteria in the person specification and to make it clear how they meet each of the selected essential and ideally desirable criteria.
About us
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Our NHS People PromiseOur NHS People Promise -the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Project Manager in the Dementia united team , the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering clinically led service improvement working with programme managers to achieve the wider objectives of the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care.
The post holder will support the team to ensure that their work stream of projects is planned and managed effectively and will take the lead their successful delivery. This will require the successful candidate to:
- Manage and deliver agreed tasks in line with NHS GM principles and practices
- Maintain control over project support and risks utilising the NHS GM PMO tools and functions
- Provide NHS GM and other project reporting and assurance as required
- Liaise with colleague over project links and inter-dependencies
- Support leads to deliver the overall objectives of relevant programmes
- Work with wider NHS stakeholders to identify potential service enhancement
In particular the post holder will:
- Support and inform the targeting of safety resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects
- Coordinate regional and national assurance documentation.
- Coordinate Equality Impact Assessments.
- Provide high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder
- Facilitate and administer meetings and groups, that are high level and complex, and often of a sensitive nature.
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers
- Ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead report writing and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and
- Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Project Manager in the Dementia united team , the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering clinically led service improvement working with programme managers to achieve the wider objectives of the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care.
The post holder will support the team to ensure that their work stream of projects is planned and managed effectively and will take the lead their successful delivery. This will require the successful candidate to:
- Manage and deliver agreed tasks in line with NHS GM principles and practices
- Maintain control over project support and risks utilising the NHS GM PMO tools and functions
- Provide NHS GM and other project reporting and assurance as required
- Liaise with colleague over project links and inter-dependencies
- Support leads to deliver the overall objectives of relevant programmes
- Work with wider NHS stakeholders to identify potential service enhancement
In particular the post holder will:
- Support and inform the targeting of safety resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects
- Coordinate regional and national assurance documentation.
- Coordinate Equality Impact Assessments.
- Provide high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder
- Facilitate and administer meetings and groups, that are high level and complex, and often of a sensitive nature.
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers
- Ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead report writing and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and
- Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Experience in project management or supporting change management processes
- Prince II or similar project or programme management qualification
- Master's degree level or able to demonstrate specific equivalent experience
Desirable
- Additional relevant professional qualifications linked to the remit of the role
Experience
Essential
- Relevant management and operational experience in a National Health Service or equivalent sector
- Experience of managing a range of functional and operational areas
- Experience of managing and implementing service, process and policy improvements
- Experience in managing planning processes
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of working with clinicians
- Experience of successfully leading multi stakeholder projects.
Desirable
- Experience of managing NHS operational planning cycles
Knowledge
Essential
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health/social care policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Desirable
- A sound working knowledge of project management and transformation processes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Experience in project management or supporting change management processes
- Prince II or similar project or programme management qualification
- Master's degree level or able to demonstrate specific equivalent experience
Desirable
- Additional relevant professional qualifications linked to the remit of the role
Experience
Essential
- Relevant management and operational experience in a National Health Service or equivalent sector
- Experience of managing a range of functional and operational areas
- Experience of managing and implementing service, process and policy improvements
- Experience in managing planning processes
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of working with clinicians
- Experience of successfully leading multi stakeholder projects.
Desirable
- Experience of managing NHS operational planning cycles
Knowledge
Essential
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health/social care policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Desirable
- A sound working knowledge of project management and transformation processes