project manager Welwyn Garden City, England
Job description
Hertfordshire Care Providers Association (HCPA) is a multi-award-winning company that is dedicated to providing excellent support to providers of care services in Hertfordshire and beyond. The company offers training courses, support projects, and innovative methods to assist care companies and care staff in improving their services and delivering meaningful, personalised care. HCPA's CEO was recently awarded an OBE for their work leading the company and its activities.
We are now recruiting for a Project Lead to manage various projects in the Education and Quality Improvement department and analyse department progress against our objectives. A project lead is responsible for various duties surrounding a project. These duties may include documentation, creating and updating project trackers, risk and issue management, and using time management skills to help the team stay on track.
Why work for HCPA?
- £27,500 per year
- 37.5 hours a week (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)
- Rewards Gateway and Care Professional Academy Rewards and Benefits
- Pension / Sickness Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Your birthday off work every year, bank holidays and 28 days annual leave
- Annual Care Awards
- Team building days and team events.
- Free parking
- Friendly and supportive team
What does the role of Project Lead involve?
This is an exciting position for someone to extend their projectand leadership skills in health and social care projects
Specific Responsibilities:
1. Complete and/or maintain all project management documentation. This ranges from project initiation documents, milestone checklists and project reports
2. Keeping track of risks and issues of projects, ensuring KPI’s are met.
3. Communicating with stakeholders and project teams to keep up to date with project progress
4. Carrying out evaluation of project, including creation of reports and change requests where necessary
5. Supporting with marketing and copywriting for project communications
6. Keeping all documents and paperwork relating to project up to date and standardised.
7. Analyse progress of projects and services against objectives
8. Build trackers and dashboards to monitor objectives and report to Projects Team Manager, EQI Operations Manager and Head of EQI
9. Any general tasks as requested which contribute to the smooth running of HCPA
Am I the right candidate for the Project Lead position?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and proactive person with excellent IT skills, who is also organised, and process driven.
We are also looking for you to have:
- Own transport with insurance for business use is essential for this role as travel around Hertfordshire may be required
- Would suit someone with a health or Social Care background/Project Management Experience
- Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills (with people at all levels of the organisation)
- Excellent standards of written documentation
- Ability to analyse information and present it in a clear, concise way and work under pressure without compromising the quality of work
- Must be able to successfully multitask displaying excellent time management and organisational skills
If you are interested in the Project Lead vacancy and feel you have the relevant experience, please apply now. You can see more of what we do at www.hcpa.info/
We will be looking to fill this vacancy as soon as possible.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £27,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Welwyn Garden City: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Project Management: 1 year (preferred)
- adult social care: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person
