Community Diagnostic Centre Project Manager - Ashton-under-Lyne
Job overview
Community Diagnostic Centre Project Manager
Band 8A
Fixed Term 12 Months
An existing opportunity has arisen for an experienced Project/Operational Manager to lead on the South-East Manchester Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) project. This is a fixed term post for 12 months.
The South East Manchester CDC is a collaboration between Tameside and Stockport NHS Trusts and In-Health who are an independent diagnostic services (ISP) provider – the centre went live on the 1^st August 2024 providing over 500 diagnostic tests per week from a purpose built unit at Crown Point retail park in Denton.
This is a key role with responsibility for leading and providing assurance on delivery of the new CDC facility, working closely with our independent sector provider and managing enabling work streams within the two Trusts and across partner organisations.
Based primarily at Tameside General Hospital, the post holder will work agilely to support involvement of colleagues at Stockport FT and at the CDC site in Denton.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will ensure that the CDC continues to develop the Digital/IT integration project as well as forging new pathways to enable the realisation of benefits to the Trusts and local populations. In collaboration with the Clinical and Operational divisional teams at both Trusts, they will ensure maintenance of an efficient governance process, coherence across work streams, and assurance that the CDC meets standards.
The post-holder will have a high degree of autonomy, ensuring that work is prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes. They will handle and manage complex and sensitive information about staff, patients, work processes, organisations, barriers to change and will ensure that communications are diplomatic, honest and handled with sensitivity so that working relationships are maintained and developed.
Working closely with our independent sector partner, the Project Manager will maintain a detailed project plan, mapping out the requirements from the hospital Trusts’ perspective to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of the CDC facility.They will liaise with diagnostic teams across the two Trusts to ensure that pathways and processes agreed with the CDC provider are safely delivered and further developed. The post holder will liaise with IT and Digital teams across both Trusts and the CDC provider to ensure that full IT integration is achieved with safe processes in place to ensure patient data is shared in line with Data Protection guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to a degree, or equivalent experience
- Project management qualification, eg PRINCE2, MSP or relevant experience
- Post graduate qualification, e.g. MA, MSc, MBA, DMS
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria- Extensive knowledge of recognised programme and project management methodologies and approaches
- Knowledge of a range of continuous improvement and change management and approaches
- Knowledge of delivering business change and transformation projects in a clinical and/or business/operational environment
- A good understanding of the complexities involved in managing and delivering large scale change in a highly complex and challenging environment
- A good understanding of the Community Diagnostic Centre programme and national requirements
- Management – demonstration of a wide range of management skills to enable and delivery business change and improvement.
- Numeracy and Analytical – to interpret and distil complex data to inform business change and improvement
- Communication – excellent interpersonal, written, oral communication and decision making skills.
- Relationship management – able to influence, motivate and persuade others, a credible leader of change.
- Negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality
- Organisation and time management – resilient and able to balance competing priorities and deadlines. Demonstrates adaptability, flexibility and a positive attitude to change.
- Root Cause Analysis – ability to see beyond the immediate problem to identify root causes, critical issues and develop clear aims and outcomes.
- Creativity - to develop concept ideas into innovative solutions.
Experience
Essential criteria- Demonstrated experience as a project, service improvement, transformation or business change manager or leadership of complex, large scale transformational programmes.
- Experience of applying and implementing business change and continuous improvement methodologies and approaches to deliver complex transformation and sustained improvement.
- Track record and successful delivery of large scale complex and realization of benefits
- Experience of managing complex stakeholder relationships through an end-to-end process.
- Experience of promoting and influencing change at senior clinical and operational leadership levels.
- Experience of developing positive working relationships, collaboration and partnerships within and across organisations.
- Programme or project management experience, including leading and motivating multi-disciplinary project teams and aligning different stakeholder priorities.
- Knowledge of continuous service improvement & Quality Assurance techniques
- Experience of the collation, analysis and interpretation of complex information or data
- Experience of using software packages to support change (eg. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, and Visio).
- Experience of facilitating learning, public speaking, delivering presentations, e.g. in Trust wide meetings.
- NHS experience working within a Diagnostics field.
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute.These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.
Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.
At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.
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