Job overview

The Greater Manchester Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) brings together NHS organisations delivering a range of acute, community, specialist, mental health and ambulance services to improve the health of the population of Greater Manchester. 

The GM Trust Provider Collaborative delivers its work through its CEO meetings, its director groups (supporting work in specific disciplines such as workforce and finance) and through provider-led groups/ system boards leading on specific areas of system transformation.

A small team has been established to support Trust Provider Collaborative meetings and its work. As well as ensuring the smooth running the meetings, the Project Manager will provide support to the various provider director groups which take forward actions and projects on behalf of TPC. You will be responsible for the scoping and delivery of projects, as well as ensuring that work across the director groups is aligned as part of the overall Greater Manchester strategies and programmes.

Main duties of the job

·       Supporting preparation for and follow up actions from the meetings of TPC groups

·       Supporting coordination of TPC Director Group meetings and delivering pieces of work on behalf of the group where needed / appropriate

·       Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and senior colleagues

·       Collation of various returns and information from GM Trusts: reviewing data sets and pulling out key information/themes as required 

·       Supporting and working closely with the TPC Team ensuring papers / proposals follow appropriate governance processes

·       Dealing with competing pressures across multiple projects and workstreams, prioritising and responding to situations on a daily basis e.g. managing of unexpected risk and ensuring outcomes are achieved within budget and timescale tolerances.

·       Ensuring the effective communication of plans to relevant stakeholders.

·       Developing excellent relationships with senior managers, clinicians and other health care professionals.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.