Job summary
- Main area
- Primary Care
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 7
- Contract
- 15 months (Fixed term contract end date 31 March 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 491-SWLMWPCC12
- Employer
- NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Primary & Community Development & Delivery Team (930181) L4
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum inclusive of Outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Project Manager
NHS AFC: Band 7
Job overview
The purpose of the role is to provide high quality project management across several key projects within the Primary Care and Community Services programme of work. The post holder will lead on specific projects and responsibilities including:
• Project management: developing and owning a suite of project management documents including but not limited to project mandates, project plans, risk and issue logs, and ensuring projects are delivered in line with the SWL project management framework.
• Actively engaging and working collaboratively with colleagues and partners across SWL to support project delivery, including coordinating complex activities
• Completing work and undertaking analysis to support project delivery.
• Monitoring project delivery and developing update reports for a variety of project groups and Boards, including benefits realisation.
• Develop business cases and bids for funding.
• Providing general project and administrative support to commissioning managers and head of the team
The postholder will be required to undertake additional duties as requested, including various ad-hoc administrative duties.
Interview Date w/c: 16th December 2024
Main duties of the job
Work closely with commissioning managers and other stakeholders to ensure projects
are clearly scoped and are managed according to the SWL project management framework.
•Develop and maintain project plans and other project management documentation e.g. risk and issue logs.
•Manage and track delivery of allocated projects to ensure milestones are achieved on time, and proactively escalate any risks and issues to relevant project lead/commissioning manager. Ensure risks are identified, managed, recorded, and regularly reviewed.
•Prepare update reports for relevant project groups and boards, and report regularly on project progress and outcomes.
•Work closely with enabling work streams to ensure adequate support is in place to specific projects, e.g. Communications & Engagement, Workforce and Finance.
•Attend project meetings related to specific projects. Provide minute-taking support when required.
Working for our organisation
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description for full details
• Work closely with commissioning managers and other stakeholders to ensure projects
are clearly scoped and are managed according to the SWL project management framework.
• Develop and maintain project plans and other project management documentation e.g. risk and issue logs.
• Manage and track delivery of allocated projects to ensure milestones are achieved on time, and proactively escalate any risks and issues to relevant project lead/commissioning manager. Ensure risks are identified, managed, recorded, and regularly reviewed.
• Prepare update reports for relevant project groups and boards, and report regularly on project progress and outcomes.
• Work closely with enabling work streams to ensure adequate support is in place to specific projects, e.g. Communications & Engagement, Workforce and Finance.
• Attend project meetings related to specific projects. Provide minute-taking support when required.
• Work with commissioning managers/project leads to complete work to a high quality, and to agreed timelines, to support project delivery.
• Actively engage and work with colleagues and partners across SWL to support project delivery.
• Develop strong relationships across SW London commissioners, providers and other stakeholders, including NHS England and other external agencies, and regularly liaise with them to ensure effective partnership and collaborative working.
• Work in an integrated manner with stakeholders and establish SWL-wide networks.
• Effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders to build strong engagement within the projects,
• Communicate information and issues, which can be complex, including briefings and reports, to team as appropriate.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area;
- Post-graduate degree in relevant subject
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience of co- ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments;
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience;
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills;
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly;
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Gillgrass
- Job title
- Head of Pri & Com Care Devel't & Delivery
- Email address
- [email protected]
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