Job vacancy: Project Manager, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 317 Regent Point

Project Manager

Band 7

Main area: 317 IT - Project Management
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 317-2022-13-25-DR-A

Site: Regent Point
Town: 317 Regent Point
Salary: £40,057 - £45,839 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/06/2022 23:59
Interview date: 06/07/2022

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Direct and effective management of projects as required within time, cost and quality parameters.
Manage project team members as appropriate (either direct or matrix managed).
Contribute towards the delivery of the IT Services Programme/Project portfolio and co-ordinate project inter-dependencies.
To make a significant contribution to the aspects of the IT Services strategy, which enables the Trust to meet its business goals and to achieve statutory and business reporting requirements
To ensure the timely and accurate production of programme status reports for senior management, the Trust Board and as required by Strategic Health Authority.
Development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies.
Client interaction, including developing a pipeline of work from the client, managing programmes/project priorities with the client, financial tracking and reporting, and project tracking and reporting
Cross-activity relationship management.
The position will involve a considerable amount of interaction with colleagues, business groups, IT and external vendors.
To make a considerable contribution to the ongoing development of the Trusts IT Change Framework (structure, processes and controls)
Promoting the value of the Change Framework within the change community, and driving improvements based on experience gathered from business partners. Maturing those disciplines across the organisation ensuring deliverance of a professional, high quality service.
Contributing and developing the Trust Wide Programme Management Operating Plan, maintaining alignment to NHS direction and policy.
Managing effective interfaces in order to maintain an end-to-end view of programme priorities and direction.
Feeds into and updates a register of portfolio risks and issues, including mitigation plans. Ensuring that these are escalated and acted upon effectively.
Experience of managing stakeholders and debate, up to Director level

Newcastle Hospitals encourages all staff and volunteers who are appointed to join the Trust to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

K1: Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. IT, Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post.

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

E1: Have experience of leading a project team.

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

E2: Have experience of managing multiple enterprise level projects.

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

E3: Experience of writing business cases

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

E4: Experience of risk management

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

E5: Experience of planning complex projects

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

Q1: Hold a current recognised project management qualification, preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in project management techniques.

SKILLS

Essential criteria

S1: Skilled in Matrix management.
S2: Skilled in analysing and forecasting project budgets
S3: Skilled in stakeholder management up to executive level.
S4: Have experience of supporting senior management level Project Boards
S5: Be competent with a range of planning tools.

Desirable

Desirable criteria

ED1: Experience of managing projects in other organisations of similar size and complexity within or outside of the NHS.
ED2: Experience of working within the healthcare industry
ED3: Experience of working within an AGILE delivery environment
ED4: Technical Experience

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful

Newcastle Hospitals encourages all staff and volunteers who are appointed to join the Trust to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.