Senior Project Manager (QI)

Main area Administrative Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Fred Peel, Head of Strategy & Transformation) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 260-TP-868

Site Tavistock Centre Town London Salary Dependant on experience Closing 23/02/:59

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them.

Job overview

Senior Project Managers - Be Part of Transforming Our Future

Are you ready to lead impactful change and help shape the future of mental healthcare? As a Senior Project Manager within our Trust, you will play a pivotal role in delivering key strategic projects, driving quality improvement initiatives, and advancing our transformation programme.

With the Trust embarking on a significant period of transformation and integration through a potential merger, your expertise in Project and Programme Management (PPM) and Quality Improvement (QI) will be critical in ensuring seamless transitions and embedding lasting improvements across all areas.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading strategic projects to align services with the Trust's overarching objectives.
• Applying PPM and QI best practices to advance the Trust's transformation agenda.
• Supporting the Merger Programme and outward partnership projects to achieve successful integration and service evolution.

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your leadership, quality improvement and project management skills to a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation at a pivotal moment in its journey.

Join us and contribute to shaping the future of mental healthcare.

Main duties of the job

• Compose, revise and edit a variety of projects' correspondence, reports, records and documentation; from rough notes and drafts, and/or data analysis; including proofreads for accuracy and completeness and for compliance with policies.
• Compose and review a range of communications aimed at broad national audiences, explaining complex and/or contentious information.
• Facilitate and monitor progress of projects within the programme, including negotiating and communicating business sensitive information to various stakeholders at all levels.
• Persuasively communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information to senior stakeholders for projects on a national scale; influence and motivate a wide range of stakeholders, including senior stakeholders from Royal Colleges, government bodies and board level NHS stakeholders; diplomatically navigate potentially arising conflicts between stakeholders regarding contentious topics.
• Support the Programme Managers and Head of Strategy & Transformation in the development and preparation of the overall programme plan, and by drafting sections of papers with some data analysis as required for the relevant project.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Working for our organisation

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification Shortlisting criteria

• Qualification or equiv. experience in a Project Management.
• Qualification or equiv. experience in a Quality Improvement.
• Experience working in a higher education of healthcare environment.
• Proven ability to communicate complex, contentious info to senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate.
• Proven ability to analyse complex datasets and communicate insights.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects / priorities at once.
• Proven ability to construct complex, long term project plans.
• Proven ability to design and facilitate improvement exercises / events / workshops.
• Knowledge of improvement methodologies and application in healthcare.
• Proven track record of utilising software / digital tools in Projects / Improvements.
• Knowledge of mental healthcare / conditions / environment / challenges.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.

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PLEASE NOTE:
The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.

Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.

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