CRUK TET Project Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide project management expertise

Proactively manage areas of work, anticipating deadlines and work with all members of the team from the ICS, CRUK, and NUH stakeholders. Chase actions on behalf of the team and ensure all preparation and reports upcoming events are complete.

To work with the TET team in ensuring that the programme portfolio is adequately planned to deliver a successful outcome

Through leadership and motivation, deliver through working effectively with teams working towards the agreed project goals.

Aid the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies; consider best practice and current options and ultimately make recommendations in the best interest of the project and escalating promptly as required.

More detailed job description within attachments.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or significant equivalent in similar leadership role
• Evidence of project management or similar experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable criteria

• Advanced IT Skills in Excel, PowerPoint & Office

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in managing and implementing change projects in healthcare
• Track record of achievement in delivery of objectives and finding innovative solutions to problems
• Experience of change management and pathway re- design
• Experience of managing projects, working closely with clinicians of all levels & demonstrate proven changes made as a result

Desirable criteria

• Experience of large-scale change programmes
• Prior experience of working in colorectal pathways

Communication and Relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to receive, interpret and communicate highly complex, sensitive & contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance & hostility to change
• Must be able to influence & motivate teams to adapt to new ways of working to improve service delivery & management models
• Excellent presentation skills to present a range of new & unfamiliar concepts to staff and leaders at all levels and externally to the Trust to the professionals in the wider Health community
• Ability to develop credible relationships with key stakeholders both internally & externally

Desirable criteria

• Be able to develop both formal & informal contacts & networks to share learning & knowledge within the Trust and with local & national Social & Healthcare bodies.

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Able to assess & evaluate project progress against agreed timescales & objectives & provide solutions to address any deviations.
• Ability to set longer term plans & develop contingences where deviations from plans occur.
• To be able to work with and integrate data from multiple sources/areas
• A knowledge & understanding of audit & data collection methodologies to design, implement & analyse data collection

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of the external environment & ability to interpret the implications of findings
• Ability to design, create & maintain appropriate information systems (databases & spreadsheets) for service improvement data.

Planning and Organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Able to develop & implement short-, medium- & long- term strategies towards identified goals
• Knowledge of and the ability to apply Project Management methodologies to plan & implement Service Improvements
• Able to achieve flexibility in planning changes and ensure mechanisms are in place to accommodate changes within the changing service.
• Able to work across multiple work streams, supporting team members as required
• Able to work to tight deadlines

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing multiple projects / work streams with effective planning and organisation skills

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

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Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• CRUK Project Manager - JD (PDF, 376.4KB)
• CRUK Project Manager - PS (PDF, 264.6KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)