Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview This is an exciting opportunity for a physiotherapist looking for a new challenges. This 6 month secondment will allow the post holder to develop their project management and leadership skills. The post holder will be supported by our clinical academic physiotherapist in cystic fibrosis and our education lead, as well as support from our associate director of rehab and therapies. The assistant project manager will be expected to take a lead on a couple of projects over the 6 month period. The largest project will be developing a novel placement for physiotherapy students in research, a collaboration with KCL and NIHR. We are looking for applicants with a passion for education and research who have experience of being a clinical educator and a desire to develop and expand on their non clinical skills. Main duties of the job The post-holder is responsible for providing project management and support to ensure outputs are delivered effectively. The post holder will take a lead on specific projects or aspects of a project. With responsibility for day-to-day delivery, and subsequent performance management, adjusting plans as required to ensure that risks and issues are mitigated. The post holder will work with clinicians and managers to ensure provision of the best possible patient experience and service delivery. The post holder will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies and delivery of objectives. It is expected that the specific projects managed by the post holder will change over time as the portfolio of work changes. This is a generic job description. Additional specific responsibilities and requirements depending on specialty will be confirmed during the appointment and induction processes. The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative of the role and its purpose within the service; they are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake additional or alternative administrative or managerial duties and responsibilities commensurate with the level of the post. Working for our organisation The Rehabilitation and Therapies Directorate is part of the Heart, Lung and Critical Care clinical group. Our services are based at the Royal Brompton hospital, Harefield Hospital and Wimpole Street and include cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen, inpatient and outpatient therapy services, clinical psychology and private patients therapy services. We have over 150 clinical and non-clinical staff including AHPs, Nurses, exercise physiologist, smoking cessation practitioners and clinical psychologists. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Duties and Responsibilities Project Management Support the development of project plans and the delivery of agreed milestones and objectives. Provide project management expertise to the individuals in the project team and ensure that the leads have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery. Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely way and actions are followed up. Lead service level workshops with admin, management and clinical teams. Produce presentation material and follow up information to introduce change projects and delivery plans. Communicate information on the delivery progress of the project(s) to key stakeholders as required. Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per project, tracking milestones, for circulation to more senior project leads Identify risks and support actions to mitigate these in order to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality. Use appropriate project management practices in order to deliver the project. Organise and monitor project resources to ensure their effective use while delivering against agreed objectives. Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner. Support evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations. Financial management Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts. Manage a delegated budget for own area of work to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary reports. Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage. Support the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project. Manage complex recharging arrangements across multiple organisations. Staff and stakeholder management Support engagement plans for project to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project. Support strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians. Support delivery plans and ensure these are regularly updated for all projects. Provide full line management and leadership to project team, assigning responsibility for individual pieced of work, providing day to day technical support and balancing the workloads of individual team. Support specific project management training and model practices to both internal staff members and external stakeholders and partners. Information management Monitor and maintain project information management systems Maintain data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data. Maintain databases required by the project. Interpret policies and protocols to support the project that are consistent with Trust standards. Strategy, change and service improvement Support the development of a project strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice. Manager test and review of new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment. Support innovative methods to gain patient and public involvement to inform service direction, improvement, user satisfaction and as a tool for performance management. Regular horizon scanning of best practice and ways of working within the sector and within project management. Personal Development Maintain up to date knowledge of a range of skills including service improvement techniques and be responsible for developing and maintaining own CPD programme. Research and Development Undertake primary and secondary research, audits and evaluations as required. Person specification Qualifications / Education Essential criteria HCPC Registered Physiotherapist Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development Desirable criteria Understanding of lean methodology Previous experience Essential criteria Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures Project management experience in managing specific services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multi-professional environment Skills / Knowledge / Ability Essential criteria Experience of student supervision and teaching Understanding and track record of successful change and project management Effective people and project management skills Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Further details / informal visits contact Name Fiona Cathcart Job title Associate Director of Rehabilitation and Therapies Email address [email protected]