Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 120-AC815-0924
- Employer
- Velindre University NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Project Manager
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre University NHS Trust, which is a committed equal opportunities employer. The Trust welcomes applications from people who share our vision;
Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research.
our values;
- Caring
- Respectful
- Accountable
and who will complement our current experienced and specialist employees who are passionate about working in a Trust that has the ambition to provide world class services and care to patient and donors.
Velindre University NHS Trust holds a special place at the heart of healthcare in Wales. It is also an amazing organisation to work and to develop your career. The Trust comprises of two divisions, Velindre Cancer Centre and Welsh Blood Service. The Trust also hosts on behalf of the Welsh Government and NHS Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and Health Technology Wales (HTW).
Velindre University NHS Trust provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss their employment opportunity with you.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
The Trust also reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process, to enable internal staff requiring to be redeployed in suitable roles.
Posts may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and Professional Registration Check.
For more information on our Trust Employee Reward and Benefit’s Package please visit the Velindre University NHS Trust website.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Programme Management Office in Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), for a Project Manager.
We are looking for a motivated, organised, enthusiastic, and experienced Project Manager who understands the challenges of delivering something new and want to use their skills to support and enable the delivery of clinical and operational projects, as outlined in the VCC IMTP.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will be building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across our organisation, managing key projects from inception to conclusion. The applicant should hold a Project Management qualification and have experience of managing multiple projects within a programme portfolio. The will have excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills and be able to use this skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders, organise events or workshops, and ensure initiation and delivery of multiple projects successfully.
Please refer to the full job description attached for further details.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Masters or equivalent professional/managerial qualification.
- PRINCE 2 registered Practitioner or other recognised qualification in project management
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development / further training
Desirable criteria
- Member of recognised professional body
- Change Management Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner and/or experience.
- MSP Practitioner
- Knowledge of NHS structures and processes.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working in a complex and large scale project management environment and across organisational boundaries (and by influence).
- Successful change management experience, with a proven track record and demonstrated ability of working collaboratively with a variety of organisational levels to deliver programme goals.
- Experience of service improvement methodologies and applied knowledge of how they can be deployed in different settings.
- Experience of facilitating workshops across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Management of project budgets.
- Successful introduction of project management methodologies to inexperienced teams and individuals.
- Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
- Excellent overall management and organisational skills
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information
Desirable criteria
- Experience of business planning process.
- Experience of workforce planning
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills, and the ability to identify priorities
- Possesses good written and oral communication skills
- Good report drafting skills and minute taking
Desirable criteria
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Project team, stakeholders and third party service providers involved in the delivery of the projects and Programme
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner and confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to instigate and achieve change and improvement
- Ability to prepare and present reports to management teams on project status and advice on issues and risks to detailed specifications for Trust and others as requested.
- Leadership and team building skills.
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals.
- Ability to think clearly, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment of relevant information
- Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
- Required to work on own initiative.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh speaker
Values
Essential criteria
- Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
- Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Evans
- Job title
- Head of Programmes and Service Improvement
- Email address
- [email protected]
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