Job summary

Are you passionate about project management and driven by the desire to improve the experience of mental health services for both service users and staff?

The successful candidate will be supporting the delivery of a large-scale programme to shape inpatient services within the Trust in line with NHSE guidance.

In order to support this significant change, candidates will need to be skilled at engaging stakeholders (clinical staff, system partners, service users and carers), have proven experience in delivering clinical change, and have experience working within a project management environment. The post-holder will be working closely with the Inpatient Transformation Lead to implement change across the organisation, ensuring that project and programme objectives are achieved and that benefits are carefully monitored.

The post-holder will be expected to bring NHS expertise, pace, pragmatism, enthusiasm and creativity to deliver change. They will have a strong understanding of governance and well-developed business skills.

If you have the experience and enthusiasm to deliver transformational change and improvements to services that enhance quality, safety and outcomes for patients, then we would like to hear from you.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

Working under the direction of the SRO and Delivery Leads, to manage projects within the Inpatient programme of work. The post holder will take full responsibility for the day-to-day management of these projects, including managing project governance, managing stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with all reporting requirements.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To manage a mediumsize/complexity project, or multiple small projects within the Trust, following the agreed project management methodology and reporting progress against the agreed plan.
• To ensure that project objectives and benefits are in line with Trust, regional, and national strategy, and are signed off and approved by all necessary governance.
• To ensure it is clear who is responsible for the budget/financial management, and to liaise with them to ensure any risks related to the budget are identified and managed.
• To manage multidisciplinary teams associated with the delivery of the project, ensuring all work is defined and delivered as per the plan, and ensuring that all project team members have agreed roles and responsibilities.
• To coordinate the work of different workstreams within the project, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall highlevel plan. To develop and update, with progress, both the highlevel and detailed plan.
• To manage the development and maintenance of all project documentation, including project summaries and other products within the project pack. To ensure the relevance and timeliness of all project control documentation, applying change control processes where required.
• To compile project reports and papers to allow progress to be effectively monitored. To ensure that all reports present an accurate, honest assessment of the health of the project, thereby ensuring that decisions can be made based on accurate, timely data.
• To develop and maintain a stakeholder analysis to ensure that all parties involved in, or affected by, the project are engaged to the appropriate level

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

Job description
Job responsibilities

• To manage a mediumsize/complexity project, or multiple small projects within the Trust, following the agreed project management methodology and reporting progress against the agreed plan.
• To ensure that project objectives and benefits are in line with Trust, regional, and national strategy, and are signed off and approved by all necessary governance.
• To ensure it is clear who is responsible for the budget/financial management, and to liaise with them to ensure any risks related to the budget are identified and managed.
• To manage multidisciplinary teams associated with the delivery of the project, ensuring all work is defined and delivered as per the plan, and ensuring that all project team members have agreed roles and responsibilities.
• To coordinate the work of different workstreams within the project, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall highlevel plan. To develop and update, with progress, both the highlevel and detailed plan.
• To manage the development and maintenance of all project documentation, including project summaries and other products within the project pack. To ensure the relevance and timeliness of all project control documentation, applying change control processes where required.
• To compile project reports and papers to allow progress to be effectively monitored. To ensure that all reports present an accurate, honest assessment of the health of the project, thereby ensuring that decisions can be made based on accurate, timely data.
• To develop and maintain a stakeholder analysis to ensure that all parties involved in, or affected by, the project are engaged to the appropriate level

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or diploma level qualification plus relevant experience
• Significant experience of working in a complex organisation

Desirable

• Formal Project Management Qualification
• Experience of change within the NHS

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Good awareness of relevant legislation/ statutory / governance frameworks
• Experience / understanding of the project lifecycle
• Experience of change in an organisation operating within a policy and procedure framework
• Awareness of the principals of Risk and Issue Management
• Awareness of Planning and Estimating techniques

Desirable

• Configuration management (Change control)
• Experience of clinical change
• A proven track record of delivering objectives on time, on budget and to the agreed quality

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Basic Project Management skills and understanding of Project Management concepts
• Good communication skills, able to articulate concepts in a way that is accessible to people from a non-technical background.
• Developing leadership skills
• Excellent team player
• Calm under pressure / highly resilience
• Good level of rapport/empathy/emotional intelligence
• Politically aware

Desirable

• Presentation Skills
• Supervisory skills
• Facilitation skills
• Influencing skills
• Action management
• Minute taking
• Managing remote teams / remote working

Other

Essential

• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or diploma level qualification plus relevant experience
• Significant experience of working in a complex organisation

Desirable

• Formal Project Management Qualification
• Experience of change within the NHS

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Good awareness of relevant legislation/ statutory / governance frameworks
• Experience / understanding of the project lifecycle
• Experience of change in an organisation operating within a policy and procedure framework
• Awareness of the principals of Risk and Issue Management
• Awareness of Planning and Estimating techniques

Desirable

• Configuration management (Change control)
• Experience of clinical change
• A proven track record of delivering objectives on time, on budget and to the agreed quality

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Basic Project Management skills and understanding of Project Management concepts
• Good communication skills, able to articulate concepts in a way that is accessible to people from a non-technical background.
• Developing leadership skills
• Excellent team player
• Calm under pressure / highly resilience
• Good level of rapport/empathy/emotional intelligence
• Politically aware

Desirable

• Presentation Skills
• Supervisory skills
• Facilitation skills
• Influencing skills
• Action management
• Minute taking
• Managing remote teams / remote working

Other

Essential

• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address

Bath NHS House

Newbridge Hill

Bath

BA1 3QE

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