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Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant and inventive team within Cardiff and Vale UHB. We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Shaping Change Team to help us support the creation and delivery of significant projects that will deliver services that provide optimum patient care, ensure effective use of resources and foster a culture that is progressive and inclusive.
The successful post holder will work with a range of partners across the Health Board and will play a key role in enabling, supporting and increasing the organisation’s project maturity through robust project management processes, focused both on structures that simplify change and supporting the people who enable it.
For this post we are looking for applicants with a demonstrated track record of delivering change and/or transformation projects across complex organisations and systems, in-depth understanding of project management tools and methodologies and a suitable educational background.
Core Values
* Caring and kind
* Respectfully.
* Trust and integrity
* Personal accountability
Job Title: Project Manager
Employment Type: Full-Time
Place: Cardiff
Main Duties of the Role
Reporting directly to the Head of Change Support and supporting the Assistant Director of Improvement, Implementation & Spread, offering wide-ranging expert project management advice and implementation across major Cardiff and Vale priorities.
The post holder will be expected to provide project mentoring, facilitate workshops, drive best practice, support the design and shape of projects, help develop project management capability across the organisation and project manage key projects to ensure top performance and delivery of programme aims. The post holder must have great communication and interpersonal abilities.
Welsh language skills would be an advantage for this post. Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Who We Are
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK with about 17,000 people and more than 100 specialist services. We work across 6 hospital sites and have a wide range of professional options. We serve about 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. We are focused on the health and care needs of our local community, working with our partners to establish regional services.
Our objective is Caring for People, Keeping People Well and our vision is that everyone should have an equal chance of a healthy life. As an organisation we are unapologetically ambitious for the health of our population, tackling current and tomorrow’s concerns through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. With a strong focus on innovation and improvement we are contributing to a healthier Wales, learning from across the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff is the lively Welsh capital and a great place to live and work in with a wealth of sports, arts and cultural activities. West of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a blend of stunning Welsh landscape and rugged natural shoreline. Whether you want city living or rural living Cardiff and the Vale has the best of both worlds.
Job Duties
A detailed Job description and Person Specification will be supplied within the supporting materials or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Degree or similar experience
A project or people management qualification or comparable experience to post graduate diploma level.
PRINCE II methodology (Practitioner) or any other accredited project management qualification.
Work History
Extensive expertise with service re-design (with documented advantages) in a complicated environment.
Evidence of top management of service change.
Experience/knowledge of working inside the NHS or other large complex organisation in delivering or managing operational services or change projects.
Experience in producing high quality project documentation including business cases and project plans.
Comprehensive awareness of national, regional and local concerns and critical performance drivers in health service delivery.
Proficiency in the use of MS-Office suite of applications including Word, Excel and Power Point.
Disclosure and Barring Service
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 applies to this post. Because of this, the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) will need to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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