Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is seeking an experienced and qualified Junior Project Manager to join their dynamic team. This highly rewarding role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in healthcare while benefiting from sponsorship for eligible candidates.
About the Trust
As one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, MFT operates on an unparalleled scale with a turnover of £2.8 billion and a reputation for excellence. The Trust provides integrated health and social care services to over one million patients annually, setting benchmarks for innovation, collaboration, and transformation.
MFT comprises 10 hospitals and community services across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, with a workforce of 30,000 dedicated professionals. As a pioneer in healthcare, the Trust leads the way in collaborative working and digital transformation, highlighted by the implementation of Hive, its state-of-the-art Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.
Beyond clinical care, MFT is proud to be a major academic research center and education provider, fostering a robust infrastructure for high-quality research programs. The Trust is also actively pursuing its Green Plan, a comprehensive strategy to promote sustainable healthcare practices.
Why Join MFT?
At MFT, inclusion and belonging are at the heart of the organizational culture. The Trust offers fair, open, and transparent opportunities for career development, ensuring that every team member feels valued and supported. By joining MFT, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare while enjoying a workplace that prioritizes your health, wellbeing, and professional growth.
Apply today to become part of an organization that is transforming lives and redefining healthcare excellence!
Position: Junior Project Manager
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year, pro rata
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Manchester, UK
About the Role
The Greater Manchester Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) brings together NHS organisations delivering a range of acute, community, specialist, mental health and ambulance services to improve the health of the population of Greater Manchester.
The GM Trust Provider Collaborative delivers its work through its CEO meetings, its director groups (supporting work in specific disciplines such as workforce and finance) and through provider-led groups/ system boards leading on specific areas of system transformation.
A small team has been established to support Trust Provider Collaborative meetings and its work. As well as ensuring the smooth running the meetings, the Project Manager will provide support to the various provider director groups which take forward actions and projects on behalf of TPC. You will be responsible for the scoping and delivery of projects, as well as ensuring that work across the director groups is aligned as part of the overall Greater Manchester strategies and programmes.
Main Duties
- Supporting preparation for and follow up actions from the meetings of TPC groups
- Supporting coordination of TPC Director Group meetings and delivering pieces of work on behalf of the group where needed / appropriate
- Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and senior colleagues
- Collation of various returns and information from GM Trusts: reviewing data sets and pulling out key information/themes as required
- Supporting and working closely with the TPC Team ensuring papers / proposals follow appropriate governance processes
- Dealing with competing pressures across multiple projects and workstreams, prioritising and responding to situations on a daily basis e.g. managing of unexpected risk and ensuring outcomes are achieved within budget and timescale tolerances.
- Ensuring the effective communication of plans to relevant stakeholders.
- Developing excellent relationships with senior managers, clinicians and other health care professionals.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Desirable
- Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.
- Prince 2 Practitioner
Training (Essential)
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: -Business Case developmentand appraisal -Risk Management -Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (including Prince 2) -MS Project Planning -Change Management and Controls
Experience/skills (Essential)
- Demonstrable implementation experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies
- Experience of operating in a matrix management structure
- Experience in the development of business cases
- Experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects
Desirable
- Experience in leading change projects utilising project management methodologies in a health and/or social care environments
Personality (Essential)
- Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
- Demonstrates a high level of communication skills
- Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop project staff in a matrix environment
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- Excellent business, and financial management skills
- Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to deliver at pace in complex environment
- Demonstrable excellence interpersonally; articulate, creative, selfaware, controlled and conf
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals
Desirable
- An ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
- Ability to critically analyse and interpret complex data to achieve desired strategic outcomes
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment
Other (Essential)
- Travel between Trust sites
Desirable
- Driving License/ Car Owner
Benefits
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
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply
Application Deadline
January 7, 2025