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Job summary

Main area
Project Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
325-5928970-CORP-C
Employer
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trust Headquarters,
Town
Leatherhead
Salary
£45,753 - £52,067 including 5% fringe HCAS per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Project Manager - Mind and Body Programme

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust  to work for.  This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

This post will be part of the Mind & Body Programme (M&B) team.  The role of the Project Manager is to support the effective delivery of the M&B objectives through the provision of expert project management practice and support. 

As a M&B Project Manager you will work directly with the all colleagues and their teams across the Surrey Heartlands and Frimley ICS’s to support the delivery of the workstreams. In this role you will therefore need to be an experienced project manager with the well-established leadership and influencing skills.  This may involve working on two or more complex projects or across a number of smaller projects. 

This role requires a creative, forward thinking and innovative individual with solid project management skill and experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries to deliver sustainable improvement.

Main duties of the job

This job is suitable for someone who has a proven track record in the project management and delivery of high profile/high value/high quality projects. You will need to be a confident communicator who is able to influence, inspire and lead others from different backgrounds and all levels of seniority.  You will need to have a thorough understanding of project management and the ability to facilitate members of the project team through a matrix management approach to ensure the project is delivered within quality and financial tolerances set. This role will suit an individual who has the drive, enthusiasm and ability to motiviate individuals to deliver exceptional outcomes in a constantly evolving environment.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work with colleagues across all Organisations engaged with the M&B Programme. Colleagues working on the various workstreams, project management roles across the System outside of the M&B Programme, and senior leaders and stakeholders in projects being directly managed e.g. programme sponsor, technical and clinical workstream leads, innovators, Clinical Team Lead, clinical staff and all other project stakeholders such as people who use services and their carers.  For further details please refer to key responsibilties and job description attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level, or equivalent relevant senior management experience
  • Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Formal training in programme and project management e.g. Prince 2/MSP or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 3 years recent experience delivering successfully implemented projects within a Prince 2, MSP methodology
  • Knowledge and experience of delivering projects across organisational
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of the political sensitivities of working on high profile projects
  • Good understanding of risk management and management of risk factors
  • Experience in working in the NHS and the public sector; experience of working within the mental health and learning disability sector is desirable but not essential

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sally Heath
Job title
Director of Business and Innovation
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07393 244223
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