job descrption

As a project specialist within the Trust’s PMO Team, the postholder will be required to play a major role in co-ordination and delivery of assigned projects . Projects will typically span 12-18 months and require definition and close management of project teams and clear comprehensive project governance and assurance. Reporting to the Corporate Projects Lead, the post holder will be required to work closely with project teams to ensure the application of well-defined and understood project methods, such that project activities are effectively managed and accurately reported. As part of this role there will be an ongoing responsibility for training and upskilling colleagues in the latest project management methods.

The Post Holder Will Hold Cross-cutting Project Teams To Account, Utilising a Breadth Of Tools And Methods, Assuring Delivery Via The Robustness Of This Approach. More Specifically You Will
• Drive delivery through management of project risks, discussing risks and mitigations with project teams and escalating as required to trust management, workstream leads and sponsors
• Monitor, track, and report project progress
• Provide assurance, reporting of progress and in-depth reviews as requested by the programme board
• Project management of required projects including scoping, the identification of milestones, communications strategies, risks and mitigation plans. This will include managing across the project lifecycle through respective project gates to completion and subsequent benefits realisation.
• Ensure systems and processes are followed (using PM packages such as Aspyre or MS Project or similar) and facilitate collaborative working across the organisation to support achievement of strategic objectives.
• Support project teams to create robust and fully specified project plans, with associated timelines for milestone delivery. This will include firm management of deviations from plan (in respect of scope and timescales)
• Provide support and challenge to stakeholders, towards delivery within committed scope, quality, cost and time constraints. Keeping these factors under constant scrutiny and review
• Establish and maintain necessary structures to support project delivery
• Manage governance processes for delivery, including initiation stage, stage plans, highlights reports, and exception reports
• Establish and manage overall project plans and associated project control documents
• Manage project risks through the application of agreed programme risk management principles
• Manage quality including data quality assurance process
• Responsibility for devising and delivering project management training across the organisation, to large groups.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lesley Johnson Job title: Corporate Project Lead Email address: lesley.johnson20@nhs.net Telephone number: 01622 227433