Job summary
- Main area
- Research
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AGB-EMF16802
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 Pro Rata Per Annum inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Alliance PMO Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and dynamic team responsible for transforming cancer services across Surrey and Sussex. The Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance is a partnership that brings together leaders from different hospital trusts and other health and social organisation and covers a population of approx. 3.6 million people. Our aim is to improve the diagnosis and treatment and care outcomes for cancer patients in Surrey and Sussex.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced PMO Manager to take forward the Surrey and Sussex cancer transformation programme. As PMO manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that a robust regime of change control and project documents library is in place and maintained, escalating issues with project delivery within the existing project governance framework. You are required to be conscientious, meticulous and at all times act in a professional and confidential manner. This post calls for a dynamic and highly motivated individual who is able to work using their own initiative.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
• Contribute to the development and improvement of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with the Alliance priorities.
• Develop specialist PMO project management policies guidelines and procedures
• Develop and maintain project plans in close collaboration with project leads for all key work-streams, providing oversight of the activities and specialist functions to ensure coherent and on-time delivery.
• Track and advise on programme risks, highlighting key risks to the project or programme board
• Produce Key Performance Indicator reports, tracking delivery through metrics and interpretation of data.
• Conduct project health checks, ensuring project reviews and benefits realisation and lesson learnt are documented and tracked
• Deliver regular programme level reporting to all key stakeholders, in line with the requirements of the PMO
• Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Central to delivering the cancer element in the NHS Long Term Plan, nineteen Cancer Alliances are now established across England to deliver transformational change to improve cancer patient experience and clinical outcomes for the population across defined local geographies.
To support this ambitious agenda, the Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance, (covering 3.2 million people), has successfully secured significant national transformation funding with which to review, redesign and improve clinical services with a focus on earlier cancer stage diagnosis, shorter waiting times and continuous improvements in holistic and equitable patient care.
The role of the Programme Management Office (PMO) is to ensure that there is quality assurance on programmes and projects, and provides structure, process and critical challenge for projects and programmes and to report on progress, key issues and risks to enable key decisions to be made in a timely manner. The PMO aim is to develop a culture of adopting best practice to ensure consistency and clearer visibility for all programmes and projects. To support project delivery by providing advice and guidance on managing projects which will enable successful project delivery within scope, budget and cost.
The PMO delivers to Senior Management visibility and insight around the performance, status & health of the Alliance project portfolio through dashboards in order to support effective portfolio decision-making.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS E/I and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Expert in programme management, interpreting national guidance and implementation of best practice
- Confident with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Visio and MS Project with good keyboard skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
Desirable criteria
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on appointment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Pugh
- Job title
- Head of PMO and Business Management
- Email address
- [email protected]
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