We are excited at the prospect of improving patients lives by bringing diagnostic services into the community. We need an experienced Project Manager to work with a small Programme delivery team across both Trusts, to make our ambition a reality. Your task will be to introduce, promote and proactively support new ways of working by exploiting digital capabilities to provide central administration processes to support patient pathways and business processes. To maximise clinical booking capability across the CDCs at Corby and Kings Heath (Northampton) This is a fantastic development opportunity to create something new that you can be proud of and will truly make a difference to patients and the time they wait to receive diagnosis. Main duties of the job The Group objective will be to assess the feasibility of a Central Administration Function for each Trust, and the future potential to create a central booking process across Northampton University Hospitals. There is funding for this team until end of March 2025. The people we are looking for to deliver this, should have drive, ambition, the ability to work at pace and experience of working in a project environment. If you have knowledge of outpatient and diagnostic appointment scheduling and capacity management, if you are familiar with clinical and administration systems and would like to be part of this exciting work, we would like to hear from you. If you feel you have these qualities and thrive on a challenge, the CDC team would love to receive your application form providing information of your current role, experience, and the reason you would like to be considered. Please discuss with your line manager in advance to ensure you have support for this secondment. About us Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. Our Excellence Values: Compassion Respect Integrity Courageous Accountable Person Specification Qualifications Essential • Educated to Degree Level • Project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent. • Educated to A level standard. • Higher education qualification in management, e.g. DMS, or equivalent. • PRINCE2(TM) Practitioner qualification Desirable • Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Knowledge/Experience • Significant experience in managing major transformational change programmes and projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service-related environment. • Demonstrable specialist knowledge and practical application of various best practice tools and techniques in project, programme and change management, service redesign, facilitation, and service improvement. • Must have experience of managing internal and external stakeholder engagement, including managing relationships and coordinating work between cross-functional teams and with third parties. • Experience of leading and motivating teams to deliver to a high standard whilst under pressure and when facing changing circumstances