Job summary
South Central and West (SCW) is a leading provider of transformation and consultancy services across health and social care at a national, regional, and local level. The Transformation team provides high quality, expert support to NHS organisations and partners to manage, analyse and improve performance, to transform the way services are provided for local populations. Our customers include NHS England, ICSs/ICBs, provider trusts, general practices, and numerous social care, community care, and voluntary sector organisations.
If you are passionate about transforming health and care and have the desire to become part of our team, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our bank. We are looking for an experienced individual to lead the effective delivery of PMO/Project management activities; ensuring robust planning, project management, governance processes, and priorities/deliverables are met within changing timescales and political upheaval both leading and supporting delivery.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributing to the development and delivery of the broader PMO/Programme/Project and its initiatives
- Provide advice to the PMO/Programme/Project teams and stakeholders in relation to project management, processes, and procedures
- Design and implementation of PMO/Programme/Project management operational models, tools and processes shaped around the needs of the PMO/Programme/Project to ensure delivery of aims and objectives
- Design and implement Stakeholder management working with a wide range of different and sometimes high-profile stakeholders in health, care, local government, cabinet office and public bodies
- Accountability for artefacts such as reporting and tracking action, risks and issues to a wide and often high-profile audience; management of risks and issues
- Production and presentation of documents, reports and slide packs as required
- Leading requirements for programme reporting and key communications and messages to wider health and care audience including health, local government, central government, and public bodies.
- Embedding PMO and project management best practice
About us
This bank role sits within the Transformation Directorate, which has approximately 250 people working across a range of professional disciplines within the transformation and consultancy space.
The post holder will play an essential part in the effective delivery of impactful projects and consultancy assignments across health and care. We are an inclusive and diverse team and collaboration is at the heart of how we work. The team has grown rapidly over the last couple of years in response to increasing customer demand and due to the committed and hard-working nature of the team, for which personal development is important.
The post holder will share the ethos and values of SCW and will be able to bring the skills, experience, and subject matter expertise they have developed in their career, to support the team to deliver quality services.
This role will involve travel across the South of England and potentially further afield.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bank contracts are 0 hours contracts and therefore assignments are not guaranteed. Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bank contracts are 0 hours contracts and therefore assignments are not guaranteed. 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 master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting fast-paced and complex programmes including Programme Management Office (PMO) functions
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Experience in programme communications and stakeholder management
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Excellent customer service skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Effective organiser
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Experience of managing risks and issues
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Excellent communication and presentational skills delivering to a high standard
- Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of working in complex programmes across multiple stakeholders, including managing highly complex stakeholder relationships
- Ability to take a lead on planning, delivery, and risk management processes
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Management of whole systems change projects
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Able to demonstrate high level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting fast-paced and complex programmes including Programme Management Office (PMO) functions
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Experience in programme communications and stakeholder management
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Excellent customer service skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Effective organiser
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Experience of managing risks and issues
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Excellent communication and presentational skills delivering to a high standard
- Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of working in complex programmes across multiple stakeholders, including managing highly complex stakeholder relationships
- Ability to take a lead on planning, delivery, and risk management processes
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
Desirable
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Management of whole systems change projects
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Able to demonstrate high level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
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.
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