Job Overview
We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic and experienced Project Manager to work as part of our Project Management team. This will involve working with partners across the system to improve outcomes within cancer services, specifically within the urgent cancer care and acute oncology.
The post holder will have a key role in supporting trusts, building strong relationships with stakeholders to support transformation projects.
Working with new and established clinical leadership forums, local partners and patients is key to the role. Our core project team needs additional enthusiastic and skilled people to help us in delivering best practice, value, experience and outcomes for patients. The Project Manager post is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is passionate about improving cancer services and reducing health inequalities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who have the skills and motivation to join a busy and energetic team.
The base for this vacancy will be AintreeHospital with an expectation to travel to trusts across the Cheshire and Merseyside region.
Main duties of the job
The Post Will Focus On The Following Key Areas
Data Alignment: Ensuring consistency and alignment of Somerset data fields across all CMCA teams to facilitate comprehensive and accurate data capture.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Developing SOPs and educational tools to guide data capture, submission, and reporting.
Collaboration and Liaison: Working closely with regional business intelligence and cancer performance teams to support accurate data reporting using Somerset.
Compliance: Assisting local teams in ensuring alignment with Cancer Outcomes and Services Data (COSD) requirements and ensuring governance through local cancer performance teams.
Oversight and Submission: Ensuring that Acute Oncology (AO) data is submitted to the AO Clinical Quality Group for further oversight, contributing to continuous improvement in data accuracy.
By focusing on these core areas, the project manager will help improve data quality, ensuring that the AO data accurately reflects the scope and scale of interventions. This role will play a key part in the successful development of a regional AO dataset and will contribute to the overall improvement of urgent cancer care services
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page .
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale complex transformation projects
Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function, project teams, project documentation using the LUFHT programme management documentation and recognised project management methodologies
Identify resources to enable project delivery and assuring delivery on time and to budget
Ensure that the project reporting adheres to the programme governance framework
Ensure effective communication to all stakeholders
Identify and manage the risks associated with each project
Manage the change brought about by the project effectively and efficiently
Provide expert project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the CA and partner organisations
Make a significant contribution to the development of the Programme Management Office (PMO) team as well as leading on specific complex projects
Maintain knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Masters Degree or equivalent
* Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects
Desirable criteria
* ITIL Foundation qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
* Experience of managing a team
* Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
* Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
* Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
* Teaching and presentation skills
* Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
* Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a NHS environment
* A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care
Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Specialist knowledge and indepth Substantial experience of working in a project environment
Skills
Essential criteria
* Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
* Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
* Ability to present project management techniques and tools
* Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users
* Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience