Job vacancy: Project Manager, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro

Job summary

Main area

Information Technology

Grade

Band 6

Contract

Fixed term: 12 months (Duration of contract is dependent on start date of successful candidates. Contracts will end 30th September 2025.)

Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week (Work base is on site at RCHT Treliske Hospital, Truro.)

Job ref

156-6396810

Employer: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Cornwall Hospital
Town: Truro
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/07/2024 23:59
Interview date: 22/07/2024

Project Manager

Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Initiate projects as directed by the Senior Project Manager, Senior Programme Manager.

Arrange, chair/participate in and document structured project meetings, and collective discussions with customers, patients, suppliers and system users.

Assess project priorities with the Senior Project Manager or Programme Manager, when conflict arises.

Responsible for the production of the specification and design/modification of information systems, including overseeing development work.

Undertake impact analyses to feed into service changes required after project delivery.

Responsible for regular creation, ownership and management of all core project documentation – including project plans, risk, issue logs, meeting minutes, project budgets using Microsoft Office applications or other software tools.

Create, direct and motivate representative project teams. Allocate, schedule and monitor team members’ work, and the day-to-day coordination of their planned tasks to meet the project targets.

Co-ordinate and manage internal and external parties to ensure their effective involvement in change management, delivery and ongoing service, according to policy of the customer organisations.

Ensure that quality standards are maintained throughout, such that each project deliverable is fit for purpose and meets its documented requirement.

Defining and managing project risk parameters, instigating contingency plans and escalate as necessary to the Senior Project Manager, Programme Manager or Project Board.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Proven successful structured project management skills / experience including experience in managing change and leadership of project teams.
Significant relevant experience in health service or other major large scale customer service oriented organisation.

Desirable criteria

Health information experience
Experience of Service Change Management/business Transformation

Qualification

Essential criteria

Hold a formal project management qualification (eg. PRINCE, APM, Agile)

Desirable criteria

PRINCE 2

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to solve complex analytical problems; independently analyse information; oversee and control testing/options appraisals and make recommendations based on all analysis.
Good team leadership, co-ordination and motivation skills. Good team player.

Circumstances

Essential criteria

Ability to work on site at Treliske Hospital, Truro, Cornwall

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Should you be unsuccessful at interview, please be aware that your job application and related documents will be retained confidentially for a period of 12 months.

Benefits include optional pension and life assurance. The Trust has a dedicated Childcare Co-ordination Team who can support and advise staff on childcare related issues.

We are committed to ensuring our staff are developed, engaged and supported to work in different ways to support a changing environment in which we operate and deliver services

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is a non-smoking organisation. Smoking will not be permitted on any of the sites.

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In submitting an application form, you authorise Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process should you be appointed to the post.

COVID-19 Vaccinations

Update – NHS employees/applicants of frontline posts at the Royal Cornwall Trust are no longer required to be fully vaccinated against COVID by 1 April 2022. This is pending the public consultation and Parliamentary review announced by the government. We may however request immunisation status but this will not impact working with the Trust

Royal Cornwall Hospital is an Equal Opportunities employer.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: please read the "guidance notes for applicants" document at the bottom of the screen before applying for this position.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via e-mail to advise you to book your interview slot.