Job summary
The Digitising Social Care (DiSC) team has been established to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies in adult social care.
The team is structured around the following workstreams:
- Implementation;
- Access to information;
- Digital transformation;
- Workforce / skills.
The DiSC team is responsible for delivering several digital programmes (including the DiSC programme, which is classified as a Government Major Project or Programme (GMPP) and projects that contribute to the commitments made in the People at the Heart of Care: Adult Social Care Reform White Paper.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of your contract is: short term project due to funding.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Project Manager (Market Assurance) is responsible for the following:
- Working with key stakeholders to ensure that the standards assurance process is managed and implemented correctly and managing supplier queries about the process;
- Developing buyer guidance for social care providers to support them to purchase care tech;
- Supporting development of key delivery documentation including handling strategies and implementation plans
- Providing subject matter expertise to the programme teams and to external stakeholders on care tech procurement and transformation funding
- Ownership, cleansing and consolidation of care technology contract award data to support supplier contract management and wider programme progress reporting
- Managing the workstream in line with project and programme management best practice (including activities related to planning and control, risk and issue management and governance and assurance).
About us
The newly-established Transformation Directorate in NHS England & NHS Improvement draws together Innovation, Research and Life Science; Improvement and Digital Transformation into a single team seeking to deliver transformative change for both patients, staff and clinicians in the NHS.
This in undertaken in three ways:
1) Redesigning services;
2) Data and analytics;
3) A learning and innovation NHS
The Directorate works together with clinicians and the frontline to redesign services, find creative solutions to address elective surgery, clearing the backlog and getting us back to previous levels of activity and beyond.
The NHS has an ability unique in the world to learn and innovate at scale. We have excellent innovators and research institutions in the UK. Many of the innovations are already being made somewhere on the NHS frontline, and part of our role is to encourage adoption and spread of these proven innovations, giving the frontline a bigger voice. We will be convening stakeholders to build improvement ideas, pilot new ways of operating, and scaling the adoption of successful pilots.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager (Market Assurance) is responsible for the following:
- Working with key stakeholders to ensure that the standards assurance process is managed and implemented correctly and managing supplier queries about the process;
- Developing buyer guidance for social care providers to support them to purchase care tech;
- Supporting development of key delivery documentation including handling strategies and implementation plans
- Providing subject matter expertise to the programme teams and to external stakeholders on care tech procurement and transformation funding
- Ownership, cleansing and consolidation of care technology contract award data to support supplier contract management and wider programme progress reporting
- Managing the workstream in line with project and programme management best practice (including activities related to planning and control, risk and issue management and governance and assurance).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager (Market Assurance) is responsible for the following:
- Working with key stakeholders to ensure that the standards assurance process is managed and implemented correctly and managing supplier queries about the process;
- Developing buyer guidance for social care providers to support them to purchase care tech;
- Supporting development of key delivery documentation including handling strategies and implementation plans
- Providing subject matter expertise to the programme teams and to external stakeholders on care tech procurement and transformation funding
- Ownership, cleansing and consolidation of care technology contract award data to support supplier contract management and wider programme progress reporting
- Managing the workstream in line with project and programme management best practice (including activities related to planning and control, risk and issue management and governance and assurance).
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience: oManaging Successful Programmes Practitioner. o PRINCE2 Practitioner. oManaging Successful Programmes Advanced Practitioner. oP3O Practitioner. oAPM Registered Project Professional. oProject Leadership Programme.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Significant experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of leading change projects.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
- Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at project board level.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and longterm altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and Advanced keyboard skills.
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
- Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering our role in the health and care system.
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience: oManaging Successful Programmes Practitioner. o PRINCE2 Practitioner. oManaging Successful Programmes Advanced Practitioner. oP3O Practitioner. oAPM Registered Project Professional. oProject Leadership Programme.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Significant experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of leading change projects.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
- Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at project board level.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and longterm altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and Advanced keyboard skills.
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
- Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focussed on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering our role in the health and care system.
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
