Workforce Senior Project Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop and deliver upon project plans, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project
• Use a range of project management techniques to ensure the project is well-managed and the aims of the project are realized, and the deliverables/milestones achieved to time and on budget
• Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanism
• Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner
• Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular meetings with the two Radiotherapy Network Managers to monitor progress and resource.
• Consider the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business
• Advocate the projects at senior levels and ensure active engagement within the NHS
• Demonstrate effective stakeholder management
• Develop strong and robust relationships and engage constructively with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring strong clinical engagement and buy-in to the workforce projects.
• Effectively engage clinicians, non-clinical managers and other staff in developing an environment and culture which is focuses on successfully addressing workforce challenges.
• Communicate highly complex, sensitive and sometimes contentious information through formal reports, presentations and meetings both internal and external to the organisation.
• Managing these projects to ensure delivery on time and to budget
• Ensuring effective relationships with a range of stakeholders across the radiotherapy community, so that there is significant engagement and buy-in to our projects.
• Completing end of project reports, evaluations and lessons learnt exercises with recommendations for the future
• Creating a strong legacy environment for the work to continue at the end of the fixed term project.

For further details of the job role please see attached job description.

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 195.6KB)
• UHCW Postcard (PDF, 114.3KB)
• Candidate information (PDF, 406.1KB)
• How to complete an application form & Values Fact Sheet (DOCX, 874.6KB)
• Welcoming Applicants with a Disability (PDF, 53.2KB)