Job summary
Employer heading
Project and Policy Manager
Band 7
Job overview
The postholder will provide high-quality Project Management and Policy Development for the Greater Manchester WorkWell Partnership Vanguard and across a range of business areas within the Population Health portfolio.
NHS Greater Manchester has been accepted as 1 of 15 national DWP/DHSC WorkWell Partnership Vanguard sites.
The WorkWell Service will deliver evidence-based, low-intensity work and health support services to 8000 people who are at risk of falling out of work or who have stopped working recently because of their health. The GM approach will build upon existing locality provision and relationships, and has been co-produced and delivered in partnership with the GM Combined Authority, Local Government, the VCFSE Sector, and other key stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direction of a member of the Population Health Senior Management Team, the post holder will:
- Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of the WorkWell Partnership Vanguard and other population health activities aimed improving health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- Work with key stakeholders to co-design and implement new policy and strategy that relates to population health and inequalities, across a range of relevant business areas.
- Take direct responsibility for the successful delivery of all elements of activities to agreed levels of time, budget, and quality.
- Take on new responsibilities as need arises and show flexibility in managing a portfolio of population health activities.
- Manage change effectively by working with relevant individuals, teams, and stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Population Health
The NHS GM Population Health function is responsible for ensuring that Population Health, Prevention and Inequalities are at the heart of everything that NHS GM does.
The function consists of four teams (Population Health System Development; Person and Community Centred Approaches; Environmental Sustainability and Healthcare Public Health).
The Population Health System Development Team has 4 key responsibilities:
- Lead a wide-ranging programme of activity that tackles the key causes of poor of poor health and health inequalities.
- Provide NHS GM leadership and technical expertise in Population Health and Inequalities.
- Work with key partners to shape healthy city-regional policy and strategy.
- Co-ordinate the GM Population Health governance structures.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
The post holder will provide high-quality Project Management and Policy Development activity for the WorkWell Partnership within the Population Health portfolio.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direction of a Senior Programme Manager or a member of the Population Health Senior Management Team, the post holder will:
- Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a portfolio of population health activities aimed improving health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
- Work with key stakeholders to co-design and implement new policy and strategy that relates to population health and inequalities, across a range of relevant business areas.
- Take direct responsibility for the successful delivery of all elements of activities to agreed levels of time, budget, and quality.
- Take on new responsibilities as need arises and show flexibility in managing a portfolio of population health activities.
- Manage change effectively by working with relevant individuals, teams, and stakeholders.
COMMUNICATION
· Develop and maintain effective relationships with senior officers and other key stakeholders from a wide variety of partner organisations, ensuring clear and effective channels of communication.
· Liaise with commissioning teams (commissioning, finance, performance, and quality etc.) to ensure a strategic and tactical approach to commissioning is taken.
· Co-ordinate high levels of effective engagement with a range of partners, including the public, to ensure projects are effectively implemented and policies are appropriate and effective.
· Undertake effective stakeholder mapping and engagement planning.
· Work with a range of key stakeholders to further the programme ambitions.
· Actively engage people and communities.
· Build strong and meaningful relationships with the Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sectors.
INFORMATION RESOURCES, ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING
· Provide and receive highly complex information including negotiating with senior stakeholders and groups on difficult and controversial issues.
· Make decisions autonomously, when required, working to tight and often changing timescales.
· Assess and refer on difficult issues to senior management, as appropriate
· Produce options for resolution of highly complex issues to assist effective decision-making, monitor interdependencies and risks between projects and escalating risks of potential conflicts where necessary.
· Take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.
PLANNING & ORGANISATION
· Work beyond organisational silos and provide system leadership
· Support the coordination of a range of complex projects on time, to budget and of the right quality, ensuring that regular reporting arrangements are in place so that appropriate reports can be submitted to relevant boards and key stakeholders
· Provide overall project management for a range of projects and activities, using effective methodology to ensure projects and activities are delivered on time, within budget and to the required standard.
· Proactively utilise business management tools and solutions to effectively coordinate resources and individual project budgets and expenditure forecasts to ensure delivery of the project to an agreed budget and providing updates on a regular basis.
· Effectively manage project risk through effective analysis, mitigation, and contingency planning.
· Support the planning process for determining future priorities.
· Support the development of funding bids to a range of funding sources.
· Ensure that projects and activities are defined and that they contribute to the Partnership’s organisational goals and programme ambitions.
· Develop business cases as required and to agreed deadlines.
· Write reports as required and to agreed deadlines.
PATIENT/CLIENT CARE
· Actively engage people and communities.
POLICY & SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
· Deputise for the Senior Managers within the function where appropriate.
· Work with key stakeholders to co-design and implement new policy and strategy that relates to population health and inequalities, across a range of relevant business areas.
· Co-design new ways of work and new policies and strategies
· Work beyond organisational silos and provide system leadership
· Use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to key stakeholders, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
· Independently identify and interpret national policy
FINANCIAL & PHYSICAL RESOURCES
· Co-ordinate effective project finances both in terms of the resources to plan and implement the programme and to help realise any financial outputs required from the programme e.g., savings and efficiencies.
· Undertake commissioning and procurement activities as appropriate and required.
· Provide direction to programme resources, partners, and key stakeholders, defining work, ensuring deadlines are understood and adhered to and that project objectives are clearly articulated and understood.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
· Take on the line management responsibilities for lower grade roles, if required.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT & AUDIT
· Review and interpret complex data, research, intelligence, and insight and use this to enable informed decision-making and future action planning.
· Be accountable for the management of all project documentation, including effective record keeping and version control of project documentation.
Person specification
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in a related area.
Essential criteria
- Grade, years experience
Desirable criteria
- Qualified in recognised programme management methodology.
Experience of working in a field relevant to Population Health and tackling inequalities.
Essential criteria
- Years working in relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a political environment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of successfully managing and delivering successful projects using a structured project management process and project management methods, principles, techniques, and tools.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking engagement with the public
Competency
Essential criteria
- Ability to solve problems of a complex nature and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under high pressure
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of the relationship between NHS Greater Manchester, GM Combined Authority, and localities.
Competency
Essential criteria
- Able to manage conflict and try to persuade others of own point of view and defend own position with logical and unemotional arguments.
Competency
Essential criteria
- Ability to solve problems of a complex nature and deliver pragmatic solutions sometimes under high pressure
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of being responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael Nielsen
- Job title
- Strategic Lead – Population Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917 511667
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