Job summary
- Main area
- Project Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6461476-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Senior Project Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the continued development of our Mental Health programme of work with systems across the East of England. This role will support NHS England priorities, using project management skills to provide support across the programme.
The role of Mental Health Senior Project Manager supports the delivery of high-quality mental health programmes and ongoing implementation of the long-term plan for mental health.
The successful candidate will need to be able to work quickly and independently in a very faced paced and rapidly changing environment, along with project management skills and the ability to support all aspects of the full project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will be resilient and adaptable, with a ‘can-do’ attitude, and quality improvement skills, and experience of supporting large scale projects across organisational and geographic boundaries.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will draw on their specialist knowledge of quality improvement and project management, combined with excellent communication and influencing skills to support delivery of national and ICB mental health strategy.
The role is expected to work in an agile way to respond to regional and ICS priorities and will support short to medium term projects.
Please see the job description for further details.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description for full details.
Summary of Functional Responsibilities, see job description for full list.
· To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
· To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects
· To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment
· Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend
· To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
· To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the National Director’s portfolio
· To support the identification and sharing of best practice in employee engagement
Summary of Key Working Relationships, see job description for full list.
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with key stakeholders.
- Work effectively with a variety of external consultancies working on other projects and programmes within other NHS directorates as required.
- Communicates and provides highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. (verbal, written and numerical)
- Work and engage constructively with stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
- Apply a structured change management approach and methodology in relation to change management.
- May deputise for the Head of Department as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to a masters in a relevant subject (such as mental health) or equivalent level of experience.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Awareness in project and programme management methodologies such as Prince MSP and / or Agile.
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
Skills, Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Experience of researching best practice, interpreting its relevance, which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Holland
- Job title
- Mental Health Senior Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For an informal chat please contact James Holland [email protected]
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