Senior Project Manager

Delivering the Trust 3 year Strategy is a key requirement of the Programme Management Office team and an opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team. The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership and project management skills to support the planning, implementation and delivery of Trust strategic priorities.

Projects will be wide ranging and will require personal influence and skill, working effectively with internal and external partners across all sectors within Cheshire and Merseyside.

Main duties of the job

To be successful in this role, you will have excellent communication skills and a proven track record for delivering clinically-led and operationally focused change. You will be able to demonstrate our trust values and behaviours and will have highly developed knowledge of change management methodologies and how these can be effectively used in a clinical setting, based on a flexible approach.

This will include the use of data from multiple sources to inform and substantiate service improvement. In your application form, please provide succinct, evidence-based examples linked to the specific person specification requirements for this role. We would welcome informal contacts from interested applicants.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

Kind

Empowered

Responsible

Inclusive

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Person Specification Qualification

• Qualification at Masters level in management or equivalent formal post graduate senior management development training
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development relevant to the role
• PRINCE 2 (foundation) qualification or equivalent.

Skills / Knowledge

• Extensive, in depth knowledge and experience across a range of relevant areas, including finance, people management and project management.
• Demonstrable senior management experience in a health or social care organisation.
• Demonstrable ability and experience in budget/financial management.
• Wide ranging experience of leading major change initiatives through to successful delivery, relating to quality, cost and timescales.
• Considerable and demonstrable experience of managing significant change and developing services in difficult or sensitive environments, involving situations of conflict.
• Knowledge of the complexity of NHS organisations.
• To have expert knowledge in relation to cancer services and the national cancer agenda
• Knowledge of the policy context relevant to the commissioning and provision of cancer services
• Knowledge of the role of Cancer Alliances and their relationship to the successful delivery, governance and improvement of cancer services

Related

• Experience of leading and implementing system change involving different partners
• Experience of managing projects across providers, using the full project cycle
• Previous experience of matrix working and/or in a programme management office environment
• Previous experience of working within a workforce development role / position
• Previous experience of coaching and/or mentoring others

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.