Our client is an NHS Trust which has developed an overarching One Plan to support the improvement of Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) at the Trust. As a result there is significant project work to be undertaken within Medicine and Surgery Care Groups. The Trust is seeking 5 Project Managers to work across these departments and organisations to support the delivery of the overall programme. The post holder will be responsible for the successful implementation of projects identified through the One Plan and related schemes. We are seeking Project Managers with experience of working in successful project delivery, in a Prince 2 environment in a patient care improvement setting.

Responsibilities:

Plan, monitor and control multiple assigned projects or workstreams using agreed methodologies.

Creation and ongoing update of Project Initiation documents to manage the project(s).

Robust risk and issue management.

Organising own resources and project staff employed elsewhere in the trust as appropriate.

Monitoring and regularly reporting upon project progress.

Monitoring dependencies, risks, issues and divergence from project plans.

Generate contingency plans and recommendations as required.

Work to the project management standards agreed within the Trust PMO.

Ensure that customers and other stakeholders are communicated with as appropriate.

Write reports, plans, and with the support of the operational manager occasionally business cases, option appraisals, cost benefit analysis and impact assessments in support of specific projects and assignments.

Highlight and escalate risks and/or issues as appropriate to ensure the delivery of projects to time, quality and budget.

Attend and support transformation team meetings and reporting.

Occasionally present reports to the Transformation team or Steering Group meetings Participate actively in activities to foster collaboration between the Trust and other organisations such as education and social care providers in the delivery of specific projects and assignments.

Analysis of customer requirements and production of clear statements of work.

Work in line with organisation system and process for the management of the Projects.

To ensure that each project has designed and implemented a communication strategy across the collaborative organisations and stakeholders which allows that transformational change information and opportunities for comment and discussion are accessible to the appropriate audience.

Managing the establishment of consistent practices and standards adhering to the programme governance arrangements, including project planning, reporting, change control, analysing risks and maintaining and updating the risk register for the Programme.

Skills, experience:

Proven experience in managing successful projects in Prince2 environments. Prince 2 or MSP qualified or other project methodologies.

Highly organised and able to plan and prioritise own workload and other members

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Able to extract key facts from large volumes of data

Excellent interpersonal skills

Excellent persuasion and negotiation skills

Excellent time management, planning and organisational skills

Able to simultaneously manage a range of complex tasks and prioritise workload

Able to deduce key points from large/complex volumes of numerical and other data

Ability to develop, agree and structure short, medium and long term plans and define complex programmes of work

Excellent IT skills, in particular MS office