Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Are you passionate about improving health outcomes at neighbourhood level? We're looking for a dynamic Project Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping population health management (PHM) across Lambeth and Southwark.

Working in partnership with Lambeth GP Provider Alliance and Southwark GP Federation, this role supports the integrator function for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). You'll help drive transformative change by coordinating the delivery of the PHM action plan, supporting the PHM Group, and ensuring PHM insight is embedded into the design and evaluation of neighbourhood health initiatives.

Split across both boroughs, you'll be fully immersed in local health improvement, benefitting from the Trust's infrastructure and the Hub's expert support. You'll lead one or more projects end-to-end-planning, day-to-day delivery, performance management-while proactively managing risks and adapting plans to keep programmes on track.

Working closely with clinicians, managers, and a wide range of stakeholders, you'll help deliver outstanding services and drive meaningful improvements to patient experience. Strong collaboration, relationship-building, and the ability to navigate interdependencies will be key to success.

If you're excited by innovation, motivated by community impact, and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, we'd love to hear from you

Main duties of the job

Guy's and St Thomas', in partnership with Lambeth GP Provider Alliance and Southwark GP Federation, provides the integrator function for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) across both boroughs, with population health management (PHM) a key priority.

This Project Manager role supports the development of neighbourhood health and the implementation of PHM across Lambeth and Southwark. Working with the PHM Group and Integrator Delivery Boards, the post holder will coordinate delivery of the PHM action plan, oversee PHM workstreams, and ensure PHM insight is embedded in the design, delivery and evaluation of neighbourhood initiatives.

The role is shared across both boroughs, ensuring strong integration with local teams and access to the Trust's infrastructure and Hub expertise. The post holder will lead one or more projects, managing planning, day-to-day delivery and performance, adapting plans to mitigate risks and issues.

They will work closely with clinicians, managers and wider stakeholders to support high-quality patient experience and service delivery. A core responsibility is defining and overseeing projects, including robust risk and issue management. The post holder will collaborate across organisations to manage interdependencies and ensure successful delivery of objectives.

Working for our organisation

Population Health Hub (PHH)

The Population Health Hub is a new team driving Guy's and St Thomas' ambition to improve population health by 2030. Bringing together clinical, analytical and improvement expertise, the Hub supports services to adopt preventative, equitable, population-level approaches.

Working with clinical teams, patients, carers and system partners, the Hub helps design and deliver insight-led improvements to care models. Its work focuses on tackling the most pressing health needs in Lambeth and Southwark and reducing inequalities in access, experience and outcomes. The Hub builds on successful local programmes such as CYPHP and LEAP, funded for two years by Guy's and St Thomas' Charity.

The Hub's core responsibilities include:
• Building the infrastructure for population health across GSTT.
• Delivering integrated data systems enabling large-scale PHM analysis.
• Identifying unmet need and opportunities for proactive, preventative care.
• Supporting services to transform with a focus on early intervention and equity.
• Conducting evaluation and research to strengthen the evidence base.
• Collaborating with system partners to embed population health approaches.
• Promoting health equity and population health awareness across the organisation.

Our Values
• Caring - putting patients first
• Ambitious - striving for excellence
• Inclusive - respecting each other and working collaboratively

These values guide how we work and shape our culture across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Project Management
• Work with the PHM Group, neighbourhood teams and partners to define programmes, projects and secure resources.
• Produce and manage project plans delivering agreed milestones.
• Develop business cases and feasibility studies.
• Provide project management expertise to the programme and PHM Group.
• Lead and facilitate project meetings with strong stakeholder participation.
• Maintain effective reporting to the PHM Group and IDBs, including dashboards, risks and interdependencies.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks.
• Allocate and monitor staff/resources to ensure delivery to time, cost and quality.
• Use recognised PM practices and support multi-disciplinary meetings to set priorities.
• Monitor progress to ensure compliance with Trust values, governance and standards.
• Plan and implement project evaluation and audit.

Financial Management
• Support tendering, contract management and procurement.
• Manage delegated budgets, monitor spend and address variances.
• Oversee commissioning and complex cross-organisation recharging.

Staff & Stakeholder Management
• Lead engagement plans ensuring effective relationships with all stakeholders.
• Build consensus using negotiation and motivational skills.
• Maintain up-to-date delivery plans and communication systems.
• Provide line management, technical support and PM training.
• Support the PHM Group with coordination, papers, actions and follow-up.
• Build understanding of PHM methods across stakeholders.

Information Management
• Develop and oversee project information systems and data collection.
• Maintain databases and translate PHM outputs into accessible narratives and recommendations.
• Develop supporting policies and contribute to integrated PM systems.

Strategy, Change & Improvement
• Develop project strategy, applying PHM tools to reduce unwarranted variation.
• Test and implement new models, methods and technologies.
• Enable patient and public involvement and co-design with partners.
• Horizon-scan for best practice.

Personal Development
• Maintain up-to-date PM and improvement skills.

Research & Development
• Deliver research, audits and evaluations aligned to the PHM action plan.

General
• Lead components of the PHM action plan, balancing risks and priorities.
• Advise the PHM Group and IDBs and proactively identify cross-system issues

Person specification

Qualifications/Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Educated to masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
• Formal Qualification in Project management (PRINCE 2) to practitioner level or equivalent
• Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in, or closely with, population health management or public health teams, using routinely collected health and care data and evidence to inform service or system-level decision-making
• Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
• Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
• Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and understanding of the changing health and care environment, strategy, and policy agendas.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Strong understanding of Population Health Management (PHM) principles, including population segmentation, risk stratification, identification of high-impactable cohorts and approaches to measuring and addressing health inequalities
• Ability to work with complex, multi-source datasets and to translate analysis into clear, actionable insight for programmes and clinical teams
• Experience of turning analytical findings into practical project or service changes, including supporting stakeholders to understand variation, set priorities and agree measurable outcomes
• Ability to summarise and present PHM findings and highlight reports to senior leaders and multi-agency groups, providing clear narratives on progress, risk and impact
• Experience of working with a range of partners to create robust, person centred change programmes

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Strong commitment to reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for diverse populations through the practical application of PHM approaches within integrated care systems
• A commitment to partnership working, inclusion of a diverse workforce and service integration.
• Ability to carry out the physical requirements of the post, with any reasonable adjustment being made under the Equalities Act 2010

Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• JD - Population Health Project Manager (PDF, 304.4KB)
• PS - Population Health Project Manager (PDF, 40.5KB)
• FRF - Population Health Project Manager (PDF, 376.6KB)