Project Manager | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 pa inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW1V 2RH |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6223106/333-J-M-0178 |
Summary
We are looking for a values-led, compassionate and capable Project Manager, with a demonstrable commitment to improving and supporting mental health, learning disabilities and autism.
This individual will have a demonstrable commitment to improving and supporting mental health, learning disabilities and autism. This post will work across the Jameson Division within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) which provides adult mental health and learning disability services. They will be working on urgent and acute transformation initiatives across the division that have been established or will soon be developed to deliver the vision and commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) for people with mental health needs.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post holder will:
• Be responsible for the day to day management of the identified projects across the programme and will be a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines; escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate.
• Agree tasks and resources required to meet project objectives and manage the project within and according to the agreed budget and timescales.
• Produce robust and realistic project plans for driving forward transformation initiatives, using appropriate methodology and leading to the implementation of actions and outcomes required to deliver the projects in line with locally agreed timescales.
This post will be focussed on specific projects for the key system-wide transformational initiatives for mental health as outlined in the national LTP mental health implementation plan 2019/20 – 2023/24
NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24 (longtermplan.nhs.uk) working in collaboration with the Urgent and Acute Mental Health Strategy and Transformation Manager in the team against an agreed portfolio of work.
The post-holder’s portfolio will include supporting on the delivery of urgent and acute mental health transformation and innovation projects, such as designing and delivering crisis alternative services across CNWL.
Duties and Responsibilities
The post holder will:
• Be responsible for the day to day management of the identified projects across the programme and will be a single point of contact, ensuring delivery against timelines; escalating issues and reporting highlights within the governance process as appropriate
• Agree tasks and resources required to meet project objectives and manage the project within and according to the agreed budget and timescales. They will need to ensure deadlines are met and work is delivered to a high standard
• Produce robust and realistic project plans for driving forward transformation initiatives, using appropriate methodology and leading to the implementation of actions and outcomes required to deliver the projects in line with locally agreed timescales
• Maintain a full and accurate audit trail of key decisions, actions and outputs, including but not limited to risk and issue logs, project/milestone plans, update/highlight reports, and action plans, and make adjustments if targets/deadlines are not met
• Produce audience-appropriate documents, reports and presentations on a regular basis for meetings, Committees and Boards in accordance with the agreed governance arrangements
• Use appropriate software to create and maintain appropriate project documentation including project initiation documents, business cases, project plans, project briefs, risk and issue logs and communication plans
• Work with clinical teams, managers and existing Strategy & Transformation Managers and Service Improvement Managers to develop new ways of working, ensuring that the clinical perspective and clinical staff are central to the work of the projects
• Ensure the patient voice is at the heart of transformation planning and delivery, engaging in co-production from initial scoping discussions all the way through to agreeing evaluation and the desired outcomes of change
• Provide support to relevant Boards, and chair project and or workstream meetings as appropriate. They will also be required to attend programme meetings to provide updates and facilitate discussions to seek key decisions
• Manage internal and external barriers to change
• Effectively identify and manage key stakeholders to enable project delivery
• Interpret and analyse complex information and make decisions on a range of programme issues where there may be more than one course of action
• Required to work collaboratively across the Transformation landscape when other programmes or projects are in a resource intensive period, providing a flexible, varied project support as required
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024
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