NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit

Mental Health Project Manager

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Job summary

The SCW Mental Health Portfolio is recruiting to a role of Mental Health Project Manager. With over 60 years of experience in mental health and the public sector between us, the portfolio's expertise ranges from commissioning and governance, front line roles as registered clinicians, psychological expertise, mental health data analytics and high quality project management.

We believe that mental health should be a priority.
We aspire to promote mental health and wellbeing, reduce stigma and improve outcomes for our populations.
We believe in equality of access to good quality mental health care for everyone.

Main duties of the job

Provide support to programmes and projects, ensuring provision of accurate data, interpretations and comparisons on a range of options requiring understanding of complex information.
Work with mental health project team and provide expert management support to the wider directorate as required, including the use of analysis, the development of qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance within the projects.
Work with colleagues in other departments to ensure that information relating to the mental health projects can be identified, analysed & presented appropriately to relevant stakeholders, in order for it to result in service change.
Maintain effective, collaborative and productive relationships with customers and other stakeholders (as required) to act as a subject matter expert for mental health

About us

You will be joining a fast paced, dynamic team working across the mental health landscape: at PCN and place level, with ICSs and providers at system level, and with the national and regional NHSE teams. You will be responsible for a range of different projects at any one time and will need to be organised and adaptable.

We pride ourselves on keeping the person at the heart of all we do. We strive to deliver outcomes that meet peoples' needs and truly make a difference, as such we need to be excellent communicators and creative problem solvers.

We work closely with colleagues from across SCW to provide a blended service to our customers, and therefore having a collaborative mindset is essential.

Date posted

24 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

891-CSU-7574CS

Job locations

System Transformation Admin

Bristol/Remote

BS1 3NX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Values & Behaviours

Essential

Patient First - Customer Excellence
Aspirational
Collaborative
Insightful
Respectful

Education

Essential

Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area (mental health)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Evidence of continued professional development
Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation or NHS QSIR (Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign)
Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments

Skills & Capabilities

Essential

Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information
Able to negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues
Demonstrate capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

Person Specification

Values & Behaviours

Essential

Patient First - Customer Excellence
Aspirational
Collaborative
Insightful
Respectful

Education

Essential

Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area (mental health)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Evidence of continued professional development
Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation or NHS QSIR (Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign)
Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments

Skills & Capabilities

Essential

Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information
Able to negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues
Demonstrate capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit

Address

System Transformation Admin

Bristol/Remote

BS1 3NX

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit

Address

System Transformation Admin

Bristol/Remote

BS1 3NX

Employer's website

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