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This is a Fixed Term opportunity up to 31st March 2025

The purpose of a Project Manager is to plan, organise, direct, and control the activities of a project to ensure that its objectives are achieved within an agreed timeframe and budget. We are therefore seeking an experienced project manager to work between multiple projects across the Health Innovation Manchester portfolio. Candidates should have demonstrable experience and expertise in project management and hold relevant qualifications including a recognised project management qualification. You will need to be agile and adaptive to manage multiple health and care projects, experienced in Microsoft Project (MSP) software and possess excellent project management skills. Being flexible in your approach and able to develop effective solutions and multi-partner relationships is vital to the success of this role.

• The post holder will be expected to plan, project manage, implement, and disseminate the learning from specific delegated projects they will facilitate service improvement and increase HInM’s effectiveness. This will involve supporting a wide range of member organisations to deliver projects developed to bring about improvements in service delivery and health outcomes for the Greater Manchester system. The role will involve responsibility for the management of allocated projects, from securing engagement, “buy in” and commitment to implementing the project with a wide range of key stakeholders and for supporting the research domains across our academic and NHS partnerships.
• Providing regular and appropriate reports to the relevant Committee and/or Board on progress, achievements, milestones and exceptions, ensuring that communications flow back and will produce reports using HInM’s agreed project governance structure.
• Undertaking patient/public engagement and involvement, as required and/or outline within the programme/project plan working proactively with the HInM PPIE Director and manager, proactively monitor progress, issues, and risks in projects for which the post holder is lead. Taking corrective and mitigating action where necessary, provide regular feedback and update reports on progress, issues and risk to senior stakeholders.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!