Virtual Health Project Manager

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced project manager to coordinate the Virtual Health Hub and its supporting work streams. You will lead the implementation programme, manage budgets and stakeholders, and drive change across clinical divisions to deliver ambitious service improvements.

You will build robust plans, monitor progress, and communicate outcomes through regular reports, ensuring governance and compliance with statutory guidance while inspiring teams to

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation programme and change management.
• Produce monthly or quarterly reports on all projects to ensure monitoring requirements are complied with.
• Establish and maintain effective links with Executive Directors, Divisional Managers, Professional Leads and senior staff to ensure that decision making is prompt and appropriate to meet the agreed levels of service.
• Interprets and implement all statutory, legislative and technical guidance for all projects assigned.

Job description

The post Holder must coordinate and manage workstream projects as part of the Virtual Health Hub service and supporting work streams. The post holder will support, manage and motivate the team effectively in order to deliver business plans and support the programme through the delivery of professional, efficient and customer‑focused services. The post holder will be required to contribute to the programme plan and strategic planning. The post holder will assist the team in setting the strategic direction of the programme and maximising the quality and effectiveness of aligned commercial activity. The post holder will aid in educating relevant internal and external stakeholders relevant to the project project/s Virtual Health project implementation in conjunction with project partners. Lead the implementation programme and change management. Support communications and engagement strategy, designing and arranging events and activities as needed. Liaise with the clinical divisions to ensure a robust implementation plan is developed to support an improvement plan embedded into the business culture. Actively and sympathetically manage in consultation with Estate project lead on all aspects of the project impact on the delivery of core service. Produce monthly or quarterly reports on all projects to ensure monitoring requirements are complied with. Ensure project management paperwork is kept up to date and relevant to the programme. Responsible for the smooth management of all projects assigned. Monitor and control resources, revenue and capital costs against the Virtual Health budget and manage expectations of all project stakeholders. Assist in setting quality standards and success metrics to measure performance and improvement. Establish and maintain effective links with Executive Directors, Divisional Managers, Professional Leads and senior staff to ensure that decision making is prompt and appropriate to meet the agreed levels of service being provided.

• Virtual Health project implementation in conjunction with project partners.
• Lead the implementation programme and change management.
• Support communications and engagement strategy, designing and arranging events and activities as needed.
• Liaise with the clinical divisions to ensure a robust implementation plan is developed to support an improvement plan embedded into the business culture.
• Actively and sympathetically manage in consultation with Estate project lead on all aspects of the project impact on the delivery of core service.
• Produce monthly or quarterly reports on all projects to ensure monitoring requirements are complied with.
• Ensure project management paperwork is kept up to date and relevant to the programme.
• Observe complete confidentiality of all information including awareness and adherence to legal requirements of the Data protection Act
• The post holder will be required to participate in relevant project and programme meetings.
• To establish and maintain effective links with Executive Directors, Divisional Managers, Professional Leads and senior staff to ensure that decision making is prompt and appropriate to meet the agreed levels of service being provided.
• Interprets and implement all statutory, legislative and technical guidance for all projects assigned.

Trust Values

Our values help us in what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and use these values throughout your employment with the Trust to define and develop our culture.

• Inclusive,valuing and celebrating everyone's diversity and success.
• Compassionate,caring about our patients.
• Accountableand responsible, always looking to improve.
• Respectfulfor all and show integrity in everything.
• Empoweringpeople to feel confident to act, trusted to make decisions, and able to shape the way we work.

Customer care for patients and/or service users

To ensure all communication with patients, public and staff are responded to in a polite, timely, friendly and courteous manner.

• Communicate and liaise with staff across the Trust, suppliers and other external organisations.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with a range of individuals internal and external to the Trust.
• Proactively engage and communicate with patients and public where needed as part of the programme strategy.
• Communicate with programme partners and division in relation to project messages.

Communication

• To be able to communicate and engage with stakeholders at all levels, both internal and externally
• To be able to consult effectively as part of the decision‑making process
• To provide complex and sensitive information to large groups of staff particularly regarding closures of and changes to services directly affecting those staff

Planning and organisation

• The post takes the lead on all delegated programme projects and the coordination of actions required by a multi-disciplinary team.

Budgetary and resource management

• Responsible for management of delegated budgets for assigned related projects.
• Oversight of how project budgets impact overall Virtual Health Budget
• Manage programme projects from point of concept through to delivery including analysis of highly complex systems, contractor proposal reviews and arranging complex shutdowns of clinical systems through negotiation.
• Manage contractors on site including site induction and day to day liaisons/ planning.

Training and research responsibilities

• To undertake research in all aspects of the programme delivery strategy to ensure the programme moves towards a best‑in‑class delivery against National targets.
• To promote behavioural change to improve the overall Trust sustainability performance, This job description is designed to assist post holders with understanding what is expected of them in their role. Hampshire Hospitals may ask them to undertake other duties, as required, which are not necessarily specified on the job description, but which are commensurate with the grade of the post.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

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