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Job summary

Main area
Transformation and Informatics
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
269-SFT8687
Employer
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Salisbury
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/09/2024 23:59
Interview date
25/09/2024

Employer heading

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Project Manager

Band 7

Job overview

Do you enjoy meeting new people, are interested and passionate about delivering effective, sustainable change? Do you have excellent organisational and positive influencing skills?

We are looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager to join the Transformation Team at an exciting time of change. You will manage multiple high-value strategic projects from their inception to the end of the project lifecycle across various clinical and non-clinical settings as part of the Trust’s project delivery system alongside our continuous improvement approach - Improving Together.

With over three years’ experience in an improvement or programme management field, working in a public or private sector organisation and a track record of project delivery, the Senior Project Manager will be a good communicator, have evidenced experience in improvement methodologies, tools and approaches within a large/complex organisation and demonstrable experience in identifying and deploying benefits realisation. A breadth of experience to achieve operational excellence, large scale transformation and digitally enabled change is desirable.

The Senior Project Manager will be highly qualified in a recognised standard (e.g.  PRINCE2 or APM) and have demonstrable experience of working to professional project standards to ensure delivery to cost, quality and time.

The post is based at Salisbury Hospital. As a flexible employer, there will be an opportunity to work on a hybrid basis.

Main duties of the job

We are offering an opportunity to meet the team and find out about working within The Transformation Team at Salisbury Hospital on Wednesday 4th September 2024.  Please drop in to the Staff Club at Salisbury Hospital from 9am to 1200pm. The event is optional but prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to attend to find out more about working with us.  You do not need to book a place, but do let us know at [email protected]  if you are coming along.

To work proactively to co-ordinate, monitor and support the delivery of the Trust’s Transformation & Projects Portfolio

Line manager responsibility for direct report(s) within the project management function

Champion and demonstrate exemplar modelling of the Trust leadership behaviours

Manage a number of complex programmes and projects simultaneously, providing comprehensive programme management skills to deliver on time and on budget to the required quality standards.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. 

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a flexible working employer, we can offer flexible working arrangements and in this role there will be the opportunity to balance working from home and on-site.  

Please see attached job description for full vacancy details. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Project Management qualification e.g. PRINCE2 or APM OR extensive experience in delivering programmes, change or continuous improvement
  • Qualified to degree level
Desirable criteria
  • Coaching qualification
  • Training in continuous quality improvement

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 3 years’ experience in an improvement or programme management field, working within a public or private sector organisation - with a particular emphasis on digital change
  • Evidenced experience in using quality improvement methodologies, tools and approaches within a large/complex organisation (e.g. A3 thinking, Productive Ward, PDSA, systems thinking)
  • Evidenced communicator with diverse range of staff with a style which motivates and influences for change.
  • Demonstrable experience in identifying benefits and in developing benefits realisation plans
Desirable criteria
  • Working operationally or in a service delivery role in a large scale organisation
  • Coaching or mentoring others through improvement activities, line management and managing high performance/holding to account experience.
  • Breadth of experience spans multiple (e.g. operational excellence, large transformation and digitally enabled change)
  • Working in a system wide role (e.g. integrated health care system)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident committedHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWe Work FlexiblyNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024People Promise

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Louise Arnett
Job title
Head of Transformation Resourcing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01722 336262
Additional information

If you are shortlisted for interview, you will be asked to prepare a 10 minute presentation, full details will be provided in advance to allow time for preparation. 

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