Oliver McGowan Training Project Manager (North Central London ICS)

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Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

BEH are the designated lead provider for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism, engaging with the North Central London Regional working group to ensure the implementation and roll out of standardised training is achieved consistently.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a diverse team with professionals from diverse health and social care organisations, supporting the creation and delivery of this project across NCL, reaching circa 80,000 colleagues.

This role will play a pivotal part in shaping and delivering the roll out of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme effectively.

You will raise awareness of the statutory requirements of the programme, supporting the clear communication and efficient delivery, control, planning and reporting of this initiative.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic expertise, to proactively support the delivery and implementation of this major change activity and initiative, with a focus on the human behaviour and the people impact of change.
• To provide professional support, expertise, and management of the project and workstreams ensuring that they are set up appropriately, equipped with the right level of resources and remain focused on the vision and objectives of the project.
• Provide leadership and focus to the project team and pro-actively communicate with key stakeholders on the development and delivery of the project ensuring that it is managed in line with best practice standards and that risks are managed, and benefits realised.
• Planning and monitoring overall progress to make sure that project milestones are being met across the various workstreams.
• Responsible for undertaking development and providing project management in support of developing competencies within the NCL ICS.
• Work with the Head of Learning & Development to support the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme, building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role

Person specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level.
• CIPD or appropriate post-graduate qualification

Desirable criteria

• Project management qualification e.g. Prince2 or Agile.
• Further training or significant experience in project management and supporting change management processes

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Experience of Project Management in larger scale organisation, ideally within people or organisation change projects. Experience of working with stakeholders across all levels of an organisation. Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences. Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management. Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt, and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues. Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks. Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be several courses of action IT skills - IT literate, able to use Microsoft Office suite Excellent written work skills

Desirable criteria

• NHS experience Experience of managing budgets Project Management Training

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good understanding/knowledge of the cultural, quality and workforce challenges facing the NHS Experience of Project Management in larger scale organisation, ideally within people or organisation change projects. Demonstrated ability in driving large size projects across the health and/or social care sector or similar environment. Experience of planning, managing, and monitoring projects Experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to meet Organisational objectives. Knowledge of, and experience of using quality improvement techniques Experience of managing systems, processes, and information resources, redesigning to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and understanding of the use of technology in education and its significance to education and training in the NHS

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage self and exhibit personal skills, including self-awareness, self-management and drive for improvement and be able to lead others effectively Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Demonstrated high level of emotional intelligence Politically sensitive and aware Strong values base Provide cover for colleagues as appropriate which may include facilitation of other programmes or workshops The post holder might be required to work across the Partnership at any time throughout the duration of the contract

Desirable criteria

• Commitment to Mental Health improvement

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Oliver McGowan Training Project Manager (PDF, 448.4KB)
• Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 178.7KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)