Project Lead Stoma and Bladder and Bowel Transformation

NHS; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Project Lead to oversee a transformation program for medical appliances and services in South East London. The role involves program management, collaboration with various stakeholders, and a commitment to high-quality service. The position offers flexibility in a hybrid working model, with a focus on improving patient experiences.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in programme or project management within a healthcare or public sector environment.
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• Experience in monitoring budgets and business planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop a consistent and accountable pathway for stoma care and incontinence.
• Utilize best practice project management methodologies.
• Lead the development of project plans and monitor progress.

Skills

Programme or project management

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Post-graduate diploma level in relevant subject

Job description

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, as the host organisation for the South East London Community Provider Network (CPN), is seeking an experienced and motivated Project Lead to oversee a major transformation programme for medical appliances for stoma care, bladder and bowel incontinence, and pelvic floor dysfunction, and wound care services across the region.

The postholder will work collaboratively with a wide range of partners including clinicians, primary and secondary care, local authorities, third sector organisations and patient forums.

This is a hybrid role with flexibility to work across sites in South East London, including our base at Pinewood House, Dartford.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have:

• Demonstrable experience in programme or project management within a healthcare or public sector environment.
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• The ability to influence and engage a wide range of stakeholders.
• A commitment to delivering equitable, high-quality services and improving patient experience.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be expected to:

• Contribute significantly to the development of a single, consistent and accountable pathway for stoma care, bladder and bowel incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction, including aligning and mobilising the five identified workstreams in the project.
• Utilising best practice project management expertise and methodologies; including change management and configuration control, requirements and scope management, risk and issue management and information management and reporting to support effective management of the day-to-day task of project delivery.
• Take responsibility for specific work-stream or project outputs
• Maintain processes to ensure appropriate project documentation, reports and planning.
• Lead the development of project plans to identify project tasks, deliverables and milestones and resourcing requirements.
• Ensure project control documentation is in place.
• Monitor progress against agreed milestones and provide regular updates to stakeholders
• Management of risk, ensuring that each has an owner, clearly defined impact and mitigating actions
• Analyse, interpret and advise on complex, contentious data and information with a view to making appropriate judgement and recommendations to achieve desired outcomes in development of project delivery to support agreement to proceed

Person Specification

Education/qualifications

Essential:

• Knowledge of programme and project management approaches and methods.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and engaging multiple stakeholders in delivery of a change project/programme
• Evidence of achieving measurable outcomes such as cost savings, improved service delivery, or efficiency gains
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare and deliver clear and concise yet insightful communications and reports for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders

Desirable:

• Educated to Post-graduate diploma level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level
• Strong collaborative approach, able to foster positive working relationships

Skills and abilities

Essential:

• A high degree of integrity, resilience and flexibility

Experience

Essential:

• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
• Experience of managing risks and reporting while co-ordinating complex projects in a challenging environment

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Additional information

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Employer details

Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Hybrid working, base offered at Pinewood House, Dartford

Pinewood House

DA2 7WG