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Main area
Projects
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
10 months (Fixed term/Secondment until May 2025)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
161-NELICB-303-A
Employer
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Unex Tower
Town
Stratford
Salary
£66,718 - £76,271 per annum inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/08/2024 23:59

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Senior Project Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Job overview

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Manager to join the newly formed UEC Transformation team in North East London ICB to cover maternity leave of the incumbent post holder.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Programme Manager with a track record and experience of supporting end-to-end UEC transformation, including prioritisation, impact reporting and assurance. They will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of senior internal and external stakeholders, across strategic, operational, and business-sensitive issues. They will be a trusted direct source of transformation delivery expertise to these stakeholders, providing meaningful challenge, advice, and feedback across the system.

Main duties of the job

  •  support delivery and allocation of resources to NEL UEC transformation programmes, in line with the prioritisation process; 
  • support the measurement of NEL UEC transformation programmes and supporting teams to improve this where necessary; 
  • lead risk management and governance processes across the portfolio and support programmes with risk identification, mitigation, and escalation; 
  • support the coordination and delivery of the UEC Transformation Portfolio training, recruitment and development of the team. 
  • Provide line management within the portfolio management team, including pastoral care and support with professional development

Working for our organisation

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on this role, please refer to the attached job description. Please ensure that you pay careful attention to the essentials and desirables of the person specification when completing your supporting statement.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
  • Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Experience of managing risks and reporting
  • Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information
  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services on time
  • Capable of managing own workload and making informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of monitoring budgets, interpreting data and business planning processes

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project

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

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Name
Carl Edmonds
Job title
Deputy Programme Director
Email address
[email protected]
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