Job Overview
The post holder will occupy a crucial role within the New Hospital Programme project, supporting the Programme Director, running the PMO and with particular focus on specific key aspects of the project (such as the implementation of the new model of care and the development of the business cases).
It is an exciting time to join the Trust as it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to be involved in a New Hospital Programme. The post-holder will be involved in the build of a brand new Frimley Park Hospital, which will be state of the art in terms of its design and how patients are treated or receive care for future generations to come. Digital innovation will be a key component in terms of design and care delivery.
Main duties of the job
- Work with the Programme Director to actively maintain a detailed overview of the project, coordinate the workstreams, manage interdependencies and ensure realisation of projected benefits.
- Provide a specific focus on key aspects of the project such as the production and submission of business cases, the development of the new integrated model of care or other key workstreams.
- Support the management of the production of submissions and business cases to Government, together with other key stakeholders, providing expert professional knowledge to support their development and progress through Government approvals processes
- Reporting of progress to the Programme Director and project leadership groups as required.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to Hunter Healthcare our recruitment partners to see attached Candidate Pack for detailed Job Description and Key Responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters Level or demonstrable equivalent level of knowledge.
- Evidence of Project Management training
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).
- Postgraduate research qualification, e.g. PhD, or clinical qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working at management level within the NHS, a large research organisation, University or industry
- Experience of taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions that are commercially attractive
- Experience of identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with industry and maximising relations with relevant parties and services (from inception to completion through to alliance management).
- A successful track record of preparing and supporting substantial investment funding business cases or research proposals
- Extensive experience of managing large scale complex programmes and projects at a senior management level using recognised methodology (e.g. Prince 2), including use of service improvement techniques, and tracking and monitoring their implementation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a clinical or academic research setting.
- Considerable experience of training, mentoring, coaching particularly in project and programme management
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Exceptional leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, and obtaining, providing and presenting information.
- Ability to manage a multifaceted, complex project / programme to time.
- Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences; meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to translate strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engage others in strategy and planning.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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