Band 7 Project Manager - Bath NHS House

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Are you passionate about project management and driven by the desire to improve the experience of mental health services for both service users and staff?
Reporting to our Quality and Treatment Programme Manager, the successful candidate will be supporting the delivery of a large-scale programme to change the way our clinicians and the wider mental health system create care plans for and with our service users, ensuring that these care and support plans are personalised and flexibly meet individual need.
In order to support this significant change, any candidate will need to be skilled at engaging stakeholders (clinical staff, system partners, service users and carers), have proven experience in delivering clinical change and have well developed project management skills. This project manager will be working closely with the Care Planning Transformation Lead to implement our new approach across the organisation, ensure that project objectives are achieved and that benefits are carefully monitored.
The potholder will be expected to bring NHS expertise, pace, pragmatism, enthusiasm and creativity to deliver change. They will have a strong understanding of governance and well developed business skills.
If you have the experience and enthusiasm to deliver transformational change and improvements to services that enhance quality, safety and better outcomes for patients then we would like to hear from you.
Flexible working considered and informal contact encouraged.
To be responsible for Project delivery by managing the project costs/budget, timescales/plans, quality, scope, benefits, risks, issues, changes to ensure that the project will deliver the agreed objectives and associated benefits. To apply a professional project management methodology to the delivery of approved Trust projects. To apply all required governance processes to ensure that the project is compliant will AWP controls.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
To manage large and/or multiple projects within the Trust, following the agreed project management methodology, reporting progress against the agreed plan.
To ensure that project objectives and benefits are in line with Trust, regional and national strategy and are signed off and approved by all necessary governance.
To be responsible for the project budget (if allocated this role by project governance), ensuring that all records are maintained and agreed funding levels are not exceeded. If not responsible for the budget, to ensure it is clear who is responsible for the budget/financial management and liaise with them to ensure any risks related to budget can be identified as early as possible. To ensure that where there is a business case underpinning the project that this remains viable and escalate if this is no longer the case.
To manage multi-disciplinary teams associated with the delivery of projects, ensuring work is defined and delivered on time and utilising people management skills to get the most out of team members. Ensuring that all project team members have agreed roles and responsibilities.
To coordinate the work of different work streams within the project, ensuring the phasing of activity within the overall high-level plan. The development and updating with progress on both high level and detailed plans
To lead the development and maintenance of all project documentation including project summaries and other products within the project pack. To ensure the relevance and timeliness of all project control documentation applying change control processes where required.
To compile project reports and papers allowing progress to be effectively monitored. To ensure that all reports present an accurate honest assessment on the health of the project thereby ensuring that decisions can be made based on accurate timely data.
To develop and maintain a detailed stakeholder analysis to ensure that all parties involved in or affected by the project are engaged to the appropriate level.
To be responsible for developing and maintaining information systems in relation to projects, ensuring clear audit trails are maintained and that information is shared and owned collectively.
To lead the project team in developing and managing the project risks and issues registers in line with Trust policy. This will include identifying potential threats to the project and their causes as well as mitigating management actions. To escalate risks and issues in a timely manner using the approved escalation routes.
To develop a project communication plan, being clear about communication needs at the different stages of the project and identifying the different roles and forms of engagement with different stakeholders. This will include overseeing the development of relevant materials and information as well as specifying the specific forms of communication needed.
To manage key project meetings ensuring that there is a chair, agenda and that the appropriate meeting information (usually actions and decisions) are documented and distributed.
To liaise with the programme manager to ensure alignment of project and programme plans and manage any dependencies. To cover for programme manager when requeste

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