Project Manager
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare Digital Services are looking for a Project Managers to join the Programme Delivery team.
The appointed candidates will be joining a successful and highly motivated team transforming the way we work and driving forward digital transformation.
This is a great opportunity for anyone joining the team delivering key strategic projects that will improve our interactions and care of our patients. The trust has set out an ambitious clinical digital strategy over the next three years with investment in technology to support the transformation.
Digital Services are also investing significantly in our teams to support them in their career progression and continued professional development.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a number of projects which can vary in duration and complexity. This must besupported with relevant documentation and tracking of projects against plan and within budget.
The successful candidates will be expected to support the development and delivery of business cases and procurement processes dependent upon the project. The key important factors are understanding projects which set out specific requirements, outline clear objectives as well as the benefits to be realised to justify investment in the project(s).
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?
You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has embarked on a programme of digital transformational change, the Clinical Digital Strategy aims to enhance how the trust uses technology. The objective is to better support the patients, the clinicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and the wider teams who provide care.
The Project Manager role is primarily to manage the procurement and Implement/manage multiple projects from strategic to operational across a wide range of subject areas. Ensuring the delivery of projects to meet the quality standards required, on budget and within the prescribed timescales.- Provide overall management for projects.
- Manages, facilitates and monitors progress of projects.
- Manages performance improvement and service development.
- Manages teams of project staff where appropriate.
- Projects range in cost from £5,000 – >£1,000,000.
- Staff impacted by projects can range from 5 – 10,000
- Projects may last between several weeks and in excess of one year.
- Staff involved in core project teams normally range from 5 – 7, larger projects can encompass 30 – 40 from staff across all professional staff groups.
- Analysis, planning and production of all relevant project documentation on receipt of a project mandate to deliver project goals
- Project manages projects as delegated.
- In relation to individual projects the Project Manager is required to report to the Project Board, usually headed by an Executive Director, Clinical Director, Directorate Manager or senior manager.
- Overall project progress is also reported through the Director of service
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within service.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria- Knowledge of specific areas, acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training, plus further staff and project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level equivalent.
- Degree or substantial project management experience
- Qualification and experience in project management methodology to PRINCE2 Practitioner level or equivalent
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Have experience in project management techniques.
- Skills and experience in procurement and its processes
- Skills and experience in process mapping utilising relevant software
- Skills and experience in POISE 2 procurement guidance and processes.
- Knowledge and practical understanding and experience of Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) procurement regulations
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Skills and experience in process mapping utilising relevant software.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.