Job summary
- Main area
- Outpatients
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6415220
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital and/or Tameside General Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Project Manager – Outpatients Redevelopment
Band 8a
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Project Manager - OP Redevelopment - Band 8a
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager - OP Redevelopment
This post will be a fixed term or secondment position funded for 18 months.
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This post be a pivotal role in supporting teams to deliver changes needed to deliver the outpatient redevelopment project. The post holder will facilitate and coordinate specialties across divisions to maximize outpatient capacity.
The post holder will initiate and nurture innovation of new ideas across the organisation and support teams to achieve their objectives through providing tools and techniques to deliver change. |
Main duties of the job
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The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing a range of projects, the post holder will ensure that a standard project management approach is built into all aspects of the programme.
Engaging with Clinical Teams to review ways of working whilst taking account of the impact of new working environments.
Motivate staff to encourage collaborative working in the design of flow and improve patient experience through outpatients whilst providing support to staff during the change process to overcome resistance to change.
Lead the operational change through to implementation and delivery working with key operational and clinical stakeholders in delivery of the new outpatient building. Work closely with estates and contractors on the actual physical build and take every opportunity to recognise and support innovations in pathways that the new build opens up for the teams. |
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Areas/Tasks
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Communication
- Develop and deploy communication strategies appropriate to the level and complexity of change within projects.
· Work with Organisational and Development team on the embedding of cultural and organisational change with the various programmes to ensure consistency and successful change is achieved.
· Employ expert negotiation and diplomacy skills with all key working relationships in order to communicate highly complex and frequently sensitive or contentious information necessary to achieve the programme goals.
· Persuade and influence senior managers and clinicians of the importance of the change agenda.
· Maintain high standards in documentation and production of presentation.
· Develop and maintain plans, risk controls, dependency controls, toolkits and other project controls for the programme.
· Demonstrate programme leadership and expertise both within the Trust and the wider health care community.
· To be able to process manage specific projects which may involve developing good working relationships with the operational division in the development of the delivery of outpatients.
· Develop robust communications processes for all the projects and communicate effectively the progress of implementation as required for the organisation at divisional and Executive level.
· Plan and facilitate group discussions and workshops, encourage participation and collaborative working of stakeholders.
Responsibility for Patient Care
· Establish and maintain good working relationships with all operational divisions involved in the project.
· Ensure co-design with patients of services and pathways.
- Assist patients/service users/carers/relatives during incidental contacts.
· Define, develop and finalise implementation plans in conjunction with operational divisions– under the direction of the Programme Lead.
Planning and organising
· Lead the process of providing interim outpatient provision on the Stepping Hill site during the design and construction of the new outpatient building.
· Proactively work with the operational divisions to define and implement the goals of the outpatients redevelopment project.
· Prioritise projects and assignment objectives, plans, methodologies and targets and apply project management and change management techniques.
· The post holder will plan and organise a broad range of complex activities and will formulate and adjust plans as required.
· The post holder will plan and implement new ways of working and facilitate partnership working between hospitals/divisions to improve patient pathways in line with agreed plans.
· Undertake capacity planning as a component of outpatient redevelopment plan, identifying supply and demand issues.
· Use agreed project management methodology to plan and implement project deliverables, ensuring that targets and milestones are met and delivered on time.
· Support project and programme team members to develop performance management monitoring systems ensuring long term sustainability of change programmes.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of delivering change projects and Project Management Experience
- Examples of facilitating collaborative working
- Performance management including monitoring of delivery to timescales
Desirable criteria
- Examples of leading multi-disciplinary team projects including senior clinical staff
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work multi-disciplinary environments
- Highly developed , negotiating and influencing skills, overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance, and reaching agreements
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Cancer Pathways and performance standards
Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Ability to motivate others and mange resistance to change
- Ability to communicate at all levels requiring tact and diplomacy to achieve results
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Toni Coyle
- Job title
- Associate Director Patient Access
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 2174
- Additional information
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is planning an exciting new OP building. This post offers a unique and exciting opportunity to influence large scale outpatient care delivery.
This post will also allow the post holder the opportunity to identify opportunities to deliver services in a more effective way in both in current transitional period for both patients and clinical services.
The post holder will also be able to effectively drive forward the the project whilst balancing the needs of the both clinical services using the space and support needed.
This is a great opportunity to broaden your existing experience via a fixed term contract or a secondment.
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