Job summary
Employer heading
PMO/ Project Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
The Project Management Office (PMO) within the Transformation directorate at NNUH, supports continuous improvement at the Trust, through inclusive engagement and systematic review of projects with divisional clinical, operational, financial, and strategic management colleagues.
The PMO has an important corporate assurance and reporting function at the Trust, facilitating governance to support the effective delivery of prioritized divisional and cross divisional projects, and the efficient progression of schemes on the assurance pathway, through financial due diligence, patient safety, and clinical quality approval gateways.
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Interview date: 4th June 2024
Main duties of the job
The PMO Project Manager plays a crucial role maintaining the Trusts financial sustainability and ultimately, supports the ongoing provision of high quality clinical services for patients and service users.
The post holder has responsibility for engaging and supporting the efficient work up and delivery of divisional, corporate and cross divisional projects, ensuring that all projects are underpinned by a robust evidence base, through appropriate benchmarking and data capture.
The role also involves benefits tracking and providing accurate reporting outputs into a range of governance forums. The successful candidate will therefore require NHS PMO experience and high level competence and familiarity using other MS software products, including Excel, Word and Power point.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The key functions of the PMO include:
- Monitor, drive and challenge the delivery of the BAU CIP and STRAT programmes of work.
- Establish and maintain strong governance, processes and standardised documentation for all projects and programmes.
- Formally review and challenge project documentation and outcomes
- Capture lessons learnt from previous projects to develop and build organisational knowledge and experience.
- Provide progress reports against planned delivery, performance metrics and agreed milestones to all key stakeholders (internal and external).
The PMO aspires to become a Centre of Excellence in supporting staff in developing and delivering sustainable financial and clinical quality improvements through the availability of resources and standardised governance processes throughout the organisation.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree qualified, or significant equivalent experience working with informatics and complex data
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing projects including the creation of project plans, tracking risks and issues and managing delivery resource in a matrix style environment.
- Demonstrable experience and evidence of managing and communicating complex data
Skills
Essential criteria
- Breadth of ability across Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Expertise in business information, financial and analytical skills
- Demonstrate initiative to deal with challenges
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Team player and able to work independently
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Connelly
- Job title
- Head of PMO
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07809377623
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