About this role
Job summary
The key purpose of this position is to support the delivery of a UHT wide project portfolio. The post-holder is responsible for ensuring project deliverables are effectively managed in collaboration with the wider project and stakeholder teams. Working closely with, Clinical Service Units, Corporate services and Finance Business Partners, as well as working alongside the current Service Improvement Office at South Tees, you will establish relationships to assist in delivering a portfolio of projects.
Main duties of the job
As part of the well-established Programme Management Improvement Office, the post-holder will play a part in ensuring the PMIO delivers the following:
Implementation of robust project management processes to ensure improved visibility and timely development and delivery of financial and improvement benefits.
The post-holder will work closely with operational, corporate and clinical colleagues to ensure compliance with Trust project management processes and ensure readiness for the various stages of project gateway reviews.
To support the Clinical Service Units (CSU) and Corporate services to deliver programmes of work, of varying degrees of complexity, to enable the Trust to deliver its strategic objectives.
Provide the role of critical friend and strategic partner to key stakeholders to ensure clear visibility of the project deliverables, risks and mitigation.
Maintain the online repository for the tracking and reporting of delivery phases for their project portfolio.
Support the development of a culture of project management excellence across the Trust through standardisation of guidelines, tools and templates.
Work with the services to develop benefits registers and realisations plans.Track, evaluate and report programme performance as part of their role, identifying and escalating any areas of concern in a timely manner.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those who first language is not English.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Job description Job responsibilities
The main repsponsibilities are
Support and facilitate the delivery of projects and improvements using a framework to ensure they are well planned, efficiently implemented and predetermined benefits are realised
Ability to deliver projects that are transformational, innovative and/or provide productivity and efficiency
Ability to respond to tight deadlines whilst managing conflicting priorities
Ensure that robust data collection processes are in place to allow appropriate analysis and create baseline measures in order to monitor and report actual benefits as a measure of success
Effective agreement and communication of project justification, aims objectives and benefits with all key stakeholders. Continued communication through the life of the projects progress to all, highlighting exceptions and/or risks and ensuring mitigating actions are identified and actioned to keep the project on track
Able to identify appropriate services to support with planning, developing and evaluating methods for gathering complex analyses and interpretations to review relevant data
Ensure project deliverables are met by the project team and that these are aligned to the Trusts strategic aim
Apply specialist skills and knowledge to react to unplanned situations, for example is able to act quickly to re-align a project plan as health care environments change daily
Responsible for tracking/monitoring of allocated project with an understanding of associated risks and initiating mitigating actions where appropriate
Responsible for own learning and development including identifying any areas of learning that might add to the knowledge base within the team and its stakeholder
Coordinating and facilitating complex information to provide assurance to executive and board level
Continuous improvement cycle within the PMIO in order to develop and respond to a changing environment within the organisation
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team
Person Specification
Essential Essential
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in project Management or a related field Management and/or Change Management qualification
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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Employer details Employer name North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Address North Tees
Hardwick Road
stockton-on-tees
TS19 8PE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)