Job summary

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for two full time Senior Project Managers to join the newly formed Delivery Support Unit team in north east London ICB.

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Senior Project Managers with a track record of leading end-to-end transformation, including prioritisation, impact reporting and assurance. They will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of senior internal and external stakeholders, across strategic, operational, andbusiness-sensitive issues. They will be a trusted direct source of transformation delivery expertise to these stakeholders, providing meaningful challenge, advice, and feedback across the system. They will need a strong track record in delivering transformation programmes, excellent project and programme management skills and a thorough understanding of the primary care and urgent emergency care policy context.

The Delivery Support Unit (DSU) team sits within this directorate. Its objective is to lead on driving the implementation and measuring the impact of change to enable the delivery of the NEL integrated care strategy. This change will cover a wide range of programmes ranging from the improvement of outcomes and transformation of care to the delivery of critical enabling infrastructure (both physical and digital) fit to meet the needs of local people for the next 20 years.

Main duties of the job

There are currently two positions open within the primary care and the urgent and emergency care transformation portfolios.

The aim of the primary care transformation portfolio is to deliver on ambitious plans to transform primary care by offering patients with diverse needs a wider choice of personalised, digital health services through collaboration with partners across the health and social care and communities. There are six programmes within the portfolio that have plans to improve access, prevention, personalisation, tackling inequalities and building trust.

The aim of the urgent and emergency care portfolio is to improve access to services for local people that meets their needs and is aligned with the UEC national plan. This means working in collaboration with partners across health and social care and communities. There is significant national focus on UEC to deliver improvements to waiting times and patient experience, in alignment with the objectives of the UEC Recovery Plan published by NHSE.

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

There are five strategic system goals : prevention of conditions and support needs; management of existing conditions and needs; timely intervention for escalation of needs or new needs and conditions; timely and effective return to community setting following escalation; underpinned by data, governance, effective pathways and enablers.

The Senior Project Managers will apply an agile and accommodating approach to delivering the objectives of their assigned programmes. The content of this role description relates both to the requirements of these programmes and the post holders leadership role within the wider delivery unit. They will lead the project teams ensuring excellent project management, governance and reporting and liaise closely with the PMO to ensure project and programme planning is reporting accurately and impact is measured.

These roles will also provide line management within the delivery unit, for the Project Managers, Project Leads and other supporting roles including pastoral care and support with professional development, as well as leading on the development of professional skills and standards.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Post-graduate degree or equivalent
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of managing risks and reporting
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
• Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project and quality improvement (QI) techniques

Skills

Essential

Desirable