Project Manager, Band 6- Strategy & Transformation

Job summary

Are you looking for a development opportunity where you can acquire new skills and experience? Do you have a passion for ensuring clinical services are best in class, pathways and processes are efficient, waste of resources is reduced and available funds are used to enable best patient care rather than lost in the system?

Then we are looking for someone like you. Someone who is enthusiastic and who wants to take initiative; someone with excellent communication skills, who can work effectively with clinical and operational teams.

Using benchmarking data, process reviews and best practice guidance, you will support identification and delivery of benefits to improve efficiency and productivity; ensuring value for money for our Gloucestershire citizens.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust as a Project Manager within Strategy & Transformation Team. You will work alongside Programme Managers and other Project Managers; utilising your skills and experience to help make improvements within the Trust.

Service Transformation is a key objective for the Trust. We therefore require someone who has experience of project management and evidence of successful delivery of transformational schemes. You will be required to support with:

- Opportunity identification through workshops and data benchmarking

- Project scoping

- Stakeholder identification

- Project Management

- Project tracking and escalation

- Reporting

About us

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information on the main responsibilities for this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential
  • Educated to degree level and/or project management experience to post graduate diploma level equivalent
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
  • A project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 or APM)

Experience

Essential
  • Proven track record of leading service and process change in a complex environment
  • Ability to relate to and engage with clinicians and operational staff to inform and implement service improvement
  • Experience of inputting to business cases and the evaluation of benefits
Desirable
  • An understanding of the complexities and pace of change in the NHS

Knowledge/ Skills

Essential
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Able to cope with competing priorities and heavy workloads
  • Produce good quality written reports
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Good presentation skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN


Employer's website

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/

Company
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom GL1 3NN
Employment Type
Fixed-Term
Salary
£37338.00 - £44962.00 a year
Posted
Company
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom GL1 3NN
Employment Type
Fixed-Term
Salary
£37338.00 - £44962.00 a year
Posted