Project Manager - Ops
Job summary
To work with key stakeholders to deliver tangible benefits to our patients and staff. You will build effective working relationships and achieve agreed objectives through strong negotiating and influencing skills and by modelling a supportive & collaborative way of working, ensuring that the electronic bed management system is successfully delivered and benefits realised.
Main duties of the job
Working with our chosen provider partner and key stakeholders, programme manage the EBMS change project across the strategic, frontline and support functions, driving progress & engagement, and delivering stated outcomes
Work with partners and stakeholders and ensure that they are fully engaged in the development of the programme and end-users are aligned and understand the role that the change will bring
Ensure that risks are identified and mitigations implemented, with appropriate escalation to the Programme Director
Produce regular highlight reports as required within agreed timescales and present as required to agreed meetings and stakeholders
Oversee the development of materials pertaining to the EBMS and ensure that communication and training is deployed against the agreed timeline to reach key delivery milestones
Work collaboratively to develop innovative and workable solutions to highly complex problems and challenges to ensure that the programme remains on-track and meets required milestones.
Work with stakeholders to set out key performance indicators and benefit realisation from the outset (both quantitative and qualitative)
Develop and secure agreement from stakeholders on project principles and ways of working to achieve delivery of the project
Chair delegated workstreams and facilitation for project meetings and related events as required
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will report to the Programme Director to project manage the operational implementation of the new Electronic Bed Management System EBMS consisting of hospital site based Command centres and Careview whiteboards across all wards and departments at the Trust
Accountable for the day-to-day management of the programme, delivering improved flow and management of both hospital sites.
Ensure that key milestones are met, and programme delivery remains in line with agreed deployment timelines
Deputise for the Programme Director as required to maintain consistency and oversight of the programme and required milestones
To deploy two command centres across Lewisham and Woolwich sites and the department whiteboards Careview system, providing seamless real-time patient flow information to staff, whilst delivering significant benefits to patient and staff
The post holder will engage and work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, including the IT project manager, clinical and non-clinical staff, patients and trust partners in the design and delivery of each project stage.
The post holder will use a broad range of skills to implement the EBMS and ensure that the stated benefits, including financial, are delivered
The post holder will build effective working relationships and achieve agreed objectives through strong negotiating and influencing skills and by modelling a supportive & collaborative way of working.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience & Knowledge
- Demonstrated experience of co- ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Demonstrated evidence of delivering multi-site project in the NHS
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of managing risks and reporting;
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience;
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes;
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2
- Demonstrated experience of working within a large-scale organisation & a range of stakeholders
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham (Cross-site)
Lewisham High Street
London
SE13 6LH
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/
- Company
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE13 6LH
- Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE13 6LH
- Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year
- Posted