[Hiring] Project Manager @Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Project Manager to join Beyond, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside's (C&M) Children and Young People's (CYP) Transformation Programme, to provide dedicated programme management support to the refreshed Cheshire and Merseyside CYP Alliance. The primary purpose of this role is to effectively project manage the Respiratory and Asthma workstream, and to ensure the successful delivery of the CYP transformation work across C&M ICS. Other projects may be identified in the future.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain programme and project plans with clear milestones.
• Responsibility for the transformation programme workstream projects, including any required data reporting submissions.
• Implementation of project delivery across the programme.
• Use robust programme and project management methodologies (e.g. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and Projects Run In a Controlled Environment (PRiNCE 2), adapted to the context, in the development and implementation of all existing and new projects.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within the services.
• Provide the necessary enthusiasm and delivery to ensure the work of the improvement programme is successful and the improvements are sustainable within the service.
• Ensure robust process is in place to manage performance and report on outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of programme and project management skills and related competencies within the organisation.
• Line management of Administration staff.

Communication Skills

• Develops and fosters relationships with key contacts and team members and proactively manages these relationships.
• Acts as a key liaison/communication link between departments, divisions and other project stakeholders.
• Provides a high level of content knowledge about all aspects of their project(s).
• Builds networks and relationships across the organisation to develop cooperation with other teams to support/enable project delivery.
• Able to present (both formally and informally) to clinical and non-clinical teams/colleagues about the scope, content and timescales associated with their project(s).
• Take an active approach to learning new and different transformational improvement techniques.
• Creates links outside of the organisation for the benefit of their project(s).

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

• Support clinical leads to facilitate workshops to analyse, map and review current provision & pathways and identify any quality improvement opportunities.
• Develop systems with relevant leads to identify benefits from improvement activity and report these back through various committees.
• Intervene as necessary, in order to remain on plan, escalate in a pro-active manner, problem solve or resolve through effective communication.
• Ensures project specific reports are provided at agreed time points in the project(s) lifetime.
• Able to perform complex analyses and interpretations to review clinical and project data.
• Able to track data continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements.
• To ensure that all records and information are maintained in a way that allows up-to-date and timely information to be available.

Planning and Organising Skills

• To ensure that the project deliverables are met by the project team and are aligned to the Programme's strategic aims.
• To ensure all project assurance documentation is consistent with the requirements of the governance requirements.
• Create and maintain robust project plans articulating milestones, timescales, stakeholders etc.
• Plan program activities for the entire year, such as meetings and webinars and proactively manage these programme timelines.
• Lead all project team meetings, pulling in specialists as necessary.
• Apply expertise to react to unplanned situations.
• Take an active role in developing policies and procedures and proposing changes as and when required.

Physical Skills and Dexterity

• Combination of sitting, standing and walking.
• Frequent requirement to use VDU & keyboard.

Policy and Service Development

• Work with the project team to ensure target setting, policy development and monitoring for improvement of performance.
• Contribute to the development & implementation of policies relating to transformation.
• Integrate the work of continuous improvement into your everyday working.
• Encourage innovation and identify opportunities for continual improvement.

Responsibility for Financial & Other Resources

• Management of resources as required within the role.
• Where required, fulfil project budget tracking/management requirements.

Human Resources and Training

• Undertake annual mandatory training updates and other relevant courses in line with Trust and local policies.

IT or Other Information Systems / Record Keeping

• Confident and capable user of Microsoft packages to produce relevant reports.
• Able to handle large amounts of raw data and manipulate into simple formats to interpret findings.
• Using IT effectively to monitor performance in an area undergoing improvement activity.
• Capture information for inclusion on database to record transformation project performance against key milestones.

Management and Leadership

• Acts as an autonomous lead in the planning and organising of internal transformation workshops and courses.
• Takes personal accountability for individual PDR ensuring review cycle is adhered to in line with Trust policy.
• Provides specialist expertise and leadership in setting timescales, managing project milestones, and overall successful project completion.

Benefits

• Great flexible working opportunities.
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme.
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme.
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes.