TCD Senior Project Manager
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation TrustWe love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
1x fixed term contract for up to 12 months
The Senior Project Manager will convene and manage project teams and provide project management support to the operational and business leads within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to enable the delivery of the Trust’s Transforming Care Digitally Programme.
To deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
The post holder will support performance improvements across the organisation as required.
As Senior Project Manager for the Programme supporting Project Managers and support officers as part of escalation or Programme direction setting is key.
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Management of the delivery of Transforming Care Digitally projects working with clinical, operational, clinical system and digital teams to improve care pathways across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Supporting the Programme Manager through acting as a conduit to the wider Project Teams ensuring continuity and quality across the Programme. The Senior Project Manager must ensure compliance with NHS technical standards and will have accountability for staff, including line management and professional supervision of digital change delivery staff, as well as occasional matrix management of digital portfolio project staff. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the identification, tracking, and realisation of financial benefits.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via Final Business Cases (FBC) and Project Initiation Documents (PID).
• To plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.
• To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.
• To encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance where there may be resistance to change.
• To present at and facilitate workshops to large groups of staff and diverse audiences.
• To plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.
• To support the Programme through a senior role within the Project delivery teams ensuring continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
• To provide continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
• To work with local and national groups as required e.g., Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), third sector partners and NHS national teams, sharing complicated plans that need explanation.
• To work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.
• To communicate effectively with stakeholders enhancing the Trust’s business where possible.
• To inform services, key stakeholders, and others on service direction even if this is unwelcome news.
• To monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.
• To ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development, e.g., training, workforce planning and appropriate recruitment.
• To ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.
• To effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.
• To analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.
• To be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.
• To participate in identified meetings as required.
• To deliver standard Project Management products such as, but not limited to, highlight reports and exception reports.
• Matrix-manage multidisciplinary workstream delivery teams from Operational and Digital Services delivery teams.
• To facilitate a Project Managers Peer to Peer community with the Programme.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
- Free car parking at many of our sites
- 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
- A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
- A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
- Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
- Recognition and long service awards
- Fast Track physiotherapy
- Our Wellbeing line
- Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.