Community Services, PEOLC and Care Homes' Project Manager
Job Description
Job summary
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Project Manager for Palliative, End of Life Care and Community Services.
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in Palliative, End of Life Care, Care Homes and Community Services. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic and friendly team as a Project Manager to cover maternity leave for a period of one year.
In this vital role you will collaborate with an incredible group of professionals from clinical to non-clinical staff, to drive key palliative and End Of Life initiatives forward. You will be at the forefront of refining pathways and overseeing complex projects across various specialties, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to budget, and uncompromising quality. Your expertise in data collection and analysis will empower you to present insights that guide enhancements in patient care.
If you're passionate about transforming care and ready to take on this impactful challenge, we want to hear from you! Join us in making a difference in the lives of patients and their families.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) all ages, Care Homes, and Community Services Programme Lead and their team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
About us
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
Our key priorities are to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7 million people who live in our communities.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Our Values are:
Respectful we are inclusive
Impactful we make a difference
Integrity we are kind and fair
Leadership we encourage leadership
Collaborative we work together in a positive way
Job responsibilities
Manage the Teams business support function, including developing and managing the teams business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management.
Liaise with appropriate functions within the Cluster and the Sector.
Manage all corporate business returns, including planning and workforce returns.
Develop and implement a content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate, and the wider NHS organisation.
Take a lead in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Team.
Oversight and management of all aspects of the Team budgets.
The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Understanding of the public sector.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB
Address
Bath Road
Reading
RG30 2BA
Employer's website
https://www.bucksoxonberksw.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
