Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As well as project management, this role includes the following responsibilities.

Financial management
• Manage and monitor the use of the project budget ensuring that the projects financial objectives remain on course and that progress is measured and reported on.

Stakeholder management
• Day-to-day management of the project support team, including allocating project tasks to individual members of the project team and ensuring that the quality of work produced meets the required levels of quality, and/or responsible for the development and delivery of training in the project to key stakeholders across the organisation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues across HR, Learning and Development, EDI, Staff Support, Organisational Development, Continuous Improvement, and senior leadership teams.

Communications and relationships
• Develop, agree and implement a rigorous communications strategy for the project, reaching all stakeholders within the Trust and, where appropriate, further to key individuals and groups across the NHS and beyond, ensuring the project's aims, objectives and benefits are cascaded.
• Ensure there is a high level of awareness and ownership of the project, that vital information is shared, and that key learning points and good practice are disseminated effectively.
• Working in partnership with programme and finance leads to providing robust monthly monitoring and quarterly forecasts on delivery to relevant programme boards/steering groups.
• The post holder will be expected to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders on the project, including the most senior personnel, internally and externally. To undertake the role will require developed communication skills to enable key messages of the project to be cascaded effectively to stakeholders. Skills of persuasion, negotiation, tact and diplomacy will be required when communicating on behalf of the team. Communications relating to the project may be complex, sensitive and emotive and may be made in verbal, written or electronic format.

Professional Standards and Personal Development
• Accountable to the workstream operational lead, with whom objectives will be agreed and performance reviewed.
• Receive overall direction from the Project Board/Steering Group but work autonomously with freedom to make judgments within role parameters.
• Develop and maintain a project plan with achievable and sustainable objectives within agreed timeframes.
• Make informed, autonomous decisions regarding project issues that could impact delivery timelines and implement solutions accordingly.
• Participate in annual performance reviews through the Personal Development Planning & Review system.

Person specification

Qualificartions and training

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Post-graduate Project Management qualification at Level 7 (PgDip)

Desirable criteria

• PRINCE2 Practitioner and/or APM PMQ (in addition to the Level-7 PgDip).
• Training in benefits realisation, risk management and NHS governance

Skills, experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience in facilitating workshops, activities and listening events
• Experience in developing and maintaining effective working partnerships with professional groups and managers.
• Experience in chairing meetings and managing projects
• Highly developed emotional intelligence and the ability to manage sensitive and highly emotional conversations
• Applies recognised project/programme methodologies at post-graduate level, including governance, benefits realisation, A/I risk/issue/change control, quality assurance and financial tracking in an NHS context.
• Able to work under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines even with frequent interruptions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to translate complex technical information and communicate this both verbally and in writing to a lay audience
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of people at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to work with a wide range of individuals and different professional groups, often with competing and conflicting priorities, to deliver realistic and practical plans.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of governance and assurance in an NHS setting

Your recruitment team
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E: krft.askrecruitment@nhs.net

Your application
Please ensure your supporting statement clearly reflects the job description and person specification, as shortlisting will be based on these criteria.

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References
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Closing date
To help us manage recruitment efficiently, some vacancies may close early once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted by email or SMS from the South West London Recruitment Hub. Please check your registered TRAC email regularly.

Application feedback
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.

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Documents to download

• Project Manager (Health and Wellbeing) (PDF, 320.6KB)
• Onboarding roadmap (PDF, 91.1KB)
• AI toolkit for candidates (PDF, 1.9MB)