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Job Overview
As a project manager in the mortality improvement programme team, you will have direct responsibility for overseeing the delivery of end-to-end projects.
The role will focus on digital development work with colleagues across Bristol NHS Group. The role holder will support the delivery of large, cross-cutting programmes of work using expert programme 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 your projects are well planned, co-ordinated, and delivered with benefits identified upfront and realised on delivery. You will be expected to use your knowledge and experience to ensure projects and wider programmes are delivered within time and cost constraints and your ability to build strong relationships and trust with clinical and operational teams will support the implementation of these programmes and projects.
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.
Experience in change management and implementation of Trust wide digital solutions in the NHS is essential.
Experience of working across Bristol NHS Group hospitals is highly advantageous.
Main duties of the job
As a Project Manager in the team, you will be responsible for ensuring your projects are well planned, co-ordinated, and delivered with benefits identified upfront and realised on delivery. You will be expected to use your knowledge and experience to ensure projects and wider programmes are delivered within time and cost constraints and your ability to build strong relationships and trust with clinical and operational teams will support the implementation of these programmes and projects.
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 while being part of a supportive and forward-looking team.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust is a progressive and ambitious teaching and research organisation, and a specialist regional centre for major trauma, neurosciences, plastics and burns, orthopaedics and renal services. With a turnover of £700m and 9,000 staff, our clinical teams have built a strong reputation for exceptional healthcare, personally delivered. We are delivering major programmes of change in order to address both short term and long term financial and operational challenges.
We are working together to create the environment for exceptional healthcare – our acute services moved into the brand new, £430 million state of the art Brunel Building ten years ago, in May 2014. This 850-bed hospital at the Southmead site offers patients single rooms with en-suite facilities, greatly improving privacy and dignity and helping to control the spread of infections. At the heart of what we do is a caring and compassionate workforce and we are currently undergoing one of the largest transformation programmes in the NHS with the implementation of Patient First.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Within the project, the role holder will be responsible for:
- Managing allocated projects from across the Mortality Improvement Programme portfolio through their lifecycle from inception to delivery.
- Managing projects on a day-to-day basis. Our current model means it is likely that the postholder will manage projects that will impact across the Trust, however on occasion this may vary should Divisional project support be required.
- Supporting clinical and operational teams to develop and plan projects and update documentation describing these plans.
- Supporting the creation of business cases and managing them through the organisational review and approval cycle.
- Identifying and supporting achievement of project benefits realisation.
- Developing and maintaining project plans, forward planners and other documentation such as RAID logs.
- Supporting clinical and operational teams with the delivery
- Organising project boards and ensuring actions are captured and completed.
- Providing routine reporting and communications material for boards and the wider organisation.
In Addition
- Be prepared to step in and provide occasional operational support to programme/general managers
- Provide focused pieces of work on specific areas, as necessary.
- Provide input into regular summary reports which are submitted to the Trust Board and other groups.
- Recognising some projects will lead to both operational and financial improvement, attend Mortality Improvement Programme meetings as required to provide updates on programme and project development and delivery and to problem solve with colleagues.
Deputise for the Programme Manager, as required.
Person specification
Ability to work independently
Essential criteria
- Strong, demonstrable experience of project management, working across teams to ensure customer, staff, quality, financial and efficiency benefits are defined and delivered.
Experience of working with financial information.
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with trust digital systems and delivering digital projects in an acute setting
Knowledge of Patient First/ Lean 6 methodology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Patient First/ Lean 6
Understanding of complex information
Essential criteria
- Ability to learn rapidly and track and understand a complex range of multi-faceted activities within individual areas, some of which may be dependent on one another.
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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
