Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - NHS North East London

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    Description

    Job summary

    As a Senior Project Manager, you will work as a member of the PMO team, to give customer and management reports on project progress flagging up risks and issues. You will be required to create project plans and help list benefits of what is being delivered.

  • Communicating and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to chair complex meetings and negotiations.
  • Deliver weekly and monthly project reports and highlighting key risks and issues suggesting any remedial or proactive actions.
  • Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
  • Work closely with technical teams to understand dependencies and potential impacts on projects
  • Write Project Initiation Documents, Business Cases, Benefits plan and assist with DPIAs and DSAs where needed
  • Main duties of the job

    Operational requirements

  • The post holder will need to work independently and have accountability for their own work area, as well across the finance directorate on all areas of financial work.
  • Working with highly complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations and comparisons on a range of options and making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
  • Provide operational management for the activities needed to be undertaken for the team to ensure all elements are completed in line with requirements.
  • Present complex information on all aspects of function practice in a clear, understandable and audience-appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups.
  • Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels.
  • Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
  • Deliver against objectives by delivering reports on project performance against plan.
  • Develop more efficient ways to improve project management.
  • Ensure the securing of value for money, giving due consideration to all relevant factors including risk, quality and other factors.
  • About us

    North East London is steeped in history and culture, and home to over two million people (and rising). It's the most diverse area of the UK; and because of that, one of the most exciting and vibrant places to work.

    NHS North East London works with our health, social care, voluntary and community partners and residents) to plan and buy health services to meet our population's needs, making sure all parts of the local health and care system work effectively together. We work as part of the North East London Integrated Care System

    We make sure residents and visitors have the best physical and mental health and have good access to high-quality health and care services. We have a vision to "work with and for all the people of North East London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity."

    We serve eight local authority areas: Barking and Dagenham; City of London; Hackney; Havering; Newham; Redbridge; Tower Hamlets; and Waltham Forest.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.

    Person Specification

    Education / 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
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Experience of managing risks and reporting
  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services on time
  • Desirable

  • Experience in a healthcare environment
  • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
  • Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions