Project Manager - Provider Collaborative

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you driven to pursue sustainable and effective change in the healthcare sector? Are you positive, self-motivated, and capable of influencing others?

If so, we have a challenging and rewarding opportunity for you to join our Provider Collaborative as a Project Manager. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in overseeing and delivering key projects that enhance the services we provide, ensuring better outcomes for our patients.

You'll work closely with our service leads and clinicians to scope, plan and deliver improvements. You'll lead on project management for the Secure Provider Collaborative (PC Network), lead by Oxford Health NHS.

Working with a broad range of stakeholders from across the network you'll deliver project outcomes, implement sustainable interventions that drive patient care, innovation, quality and effectiveness across the network. You'll be supporting investment strategies and transformation

opportunities, contributing to the development of a ‘high performance culture’ across the network.

We know how important a good work-life balance is, so role will be predominantly home working with occasional travel to support workshops and meetings across our Trust regions.

If you have excellent project management and facilitation skills with a strong focus on delivery, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

As a Project Manager you will be responsible for coordinating and managing a variety of healthcare projects from inception to completion. Your role will involve:

• Developing and implementing detailed project plans, ensuring all milestones are met
• Leading cross-functional teams to ensure project objectives are met, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Engaging with stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and incorporate feedback, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Monitoring project progress and adjusting as needed to ensure successful delivery.
• Developing and delivering project reports and presentations
• Ensure adherence to Trust policies and regulations, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and equality.
• Support senior managers across the Provider collaborate by providing planning and project management support as required for the delivery of key results.
• Work with teams, professional leads and managers and with external stakeholders, to support redesign and service development activity.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role

Person specification

Experience

• Experience in leading service change and projects
• Experience of influencing a wide variety of key stakeholders working across organisations at all levels
• Significant experience of leading and motivating teams
• Knowledge and understanding of working within the wider health and public-sector community
• Ability to simultaneously manage and deliver several service changes/projects covering a wide range of targets
• Experience of project management, risk management and operational management

Education/Qualifications

• Education to degree level, in a related discipline
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• PRINCE2 foundation and practitioner qualifications

General Skills/Abilities

• Ability to work autonomously on agreed objectives and to stretching deadlines
• Highly resilient and able to manage multiple demands
• Strong capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions with highly complex information or in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Good operational thinker with strategic awareness – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
• Ability to manage conflicts and conflicting requirements – strong and confident diplomat that can quickly de-escalate and avoid undesirable scenarios
• Proficient in the use of ICT – in particular the Microsoft Office suite of applications
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change

• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing