Job overview
As project manager in the Children and Young People's Gender Service, you will have direct responsibility for overseeing the delivery of the service's quality improvement projects.
The role will focus on a range of projects looking at patient pathway development and building relationships with stakeholders across the South West region. The post holder will support the planning and delivery of this programme of work using expert project management skills, operational management support and analysis to identify opportunities for alignment and improvement.
As a project manager in the team, you will be responsible for ensuring projects are well planned, coordinated, and delivered with benefits identified upfront and realised on delivery. You will be expected to use your knowledge and experience to ensure projects are delivered within time and cost constraints and your ability to build strong relationships and trust with clinical and operational teams will support implementation.
The post holder will be working in a dynamic change environment, with tight timescales and with a wide variety of stakeholders. This exciting role has a real opportunity to drive and contribute to clinical and operational programmes of work which will make a genuine difference to patients.
Main duties of the job
• Provide overall management for a range of projects within the CYP Gender Service (South West).
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information where agreement or cooperation is required within the project portfolio. The project portfolio will include a range of quality improvement projects.
• Present project sensitive or contentious information to multidisciplinary clinical and non-clinical teams.
• Present to project boards, highlighting the importance of complex projects, negotiate with, and motivate colleagues for project delivery, including linking in with other initiatives and projects.
• Communicate sensitive information about performance and change as part of the project portfolio.
• Provide formal project presentations at meetings to a range of staff groups.
• Work with complex facts or situations that require analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options in relation to the projects in the portfolio.
• Plan and organise broad range of complex activities; formulations, adjust plans or strategies or programmes as part of the project portfolio.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details about the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
* Educated to master’s degree level in a relevant subject area or have equivalent appropriate experience
* PRINCE2 Practitioner, similar qualification or equivalent level of work experience and knowledge
* Evidence of Continual Professional Development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
* Track record of delivering innovation and excellent performance
* Experienced in successfully managing the full life cycle of projects
* Collaborating with managers and staff at all levels including Director / Senior level/ Executive level delivering change management
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills
* Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
* People skills, able to influence and motivate on a one to one and group basis
* Advanced analytical, interpretational, and comparative skills capable of dealing with complex and sensitive information
* Ability to work on multiple complex tasks simultaneously and produce high quality work within tight deadlines and within resource constraints
Aptitudes
Essential criteria
* Understands and embodies the Trust Values
* Working in partnership with stakeholders to achieve common objectives
* Accuracy and analytical skills
* Confident in challenging peers to achieve objectives
* Excellent attention to detail
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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