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 Please note: Interviews are due to be scheduled on 23 Nov, however alternative dates may be considered if shortlisted candidates are unavailable on that date. This is an exciting role working at the heart of GSTT’s transformation agenda, shaping and managing the portfolio of change projects and programmes to deliver the Trust strategy. The post-holder will be a business partner function within the Central Portfolio Office – engaging with Trust Clinical Groups and Major Programme teams to help manage the project portfolios, improve delivery assurance, identify and manage risks and dependencies, and to ensure successful delivery of the Trust’s ambitious transformation objectives. The post holder will be responsible for establishing best practice for programme and portfolio management, leading the establishment of effective partnership relationships with programme teams, supporting and assuring that programme documentation is in place and being used effectively to manage delivery and effective risk and dependency management. The Business Partner will have a specialist function to lead on, working collaboratively with stakeholders to build cohesive portfolio and programme management capabilities and coordinating programme assurance with all programmes across the Trust. A key aspect of the role will be to ensure appropriate evaluation and metrics are in place for programmes to support programme delivery and benefits realisation. Main duties of the job Manage the production of project plans that deliver agreed milestones and Develop business cases, including feasibility studies, outline business cases (OBC), and detailed scheme designs. Provide project management expertise to individuals in the project team and ensure that the leads have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery. Design, facilitate and effectively lead project management meetings with stakeholders; ensuring breadth in participation and a focus on action planning. Develop and maintain effective project reporting to project boards. Proactively mitigate risk across all project activity, and assure that programme / project leads and stakeholders are aware. Determine and allocate staff and other resources for the project, monitoring work allocation and re-allocating as necessary to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality. Use appropriate project management practices and facilitate meetings of clinicians, managers, patients and other partners to agree priorities and action plans. Proactively monitor progress to ensure the project is managed in line with the Trust’s Values, Standing Financial Instructions, project management processes, and in compliance with appropriate legislation, statutory approvals and mandatory standards. Plan and implement appropriate evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations. Working for our organisation The Deputy Chief Executive Office is responsible for leading and developing the Trust’s strategy for transformation, innovation and improvement, which aims to develop new knowledge and capabilities and learn from best practice elsewhere to deliver improvements in patient care at scale. The Central Portfolio Office (CPO) works with strategy and change teams across the organization, Clinical Groups as well as Estates and Digital functions, in order to shape the change portfolio and deliver the Trust strategy. The CPO is part of the DCEO’s group and incorporates the Major Programmes Office and the Investment Portfolio Office which respectively support the delivery of the Trust’s Major Programmes and the pipeline management of capital programmes. The CPO also works closely with the Centre for Innovation, Transformation and Improvement (CITI) which co-locates multifaceted teams to provide the focal point for clinical innovators and services seeking to translate ideas or early stage products or improvements into clinical practice. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Project Management Manage the production of project plans that deliver agreed milestones and objectives. Develop business cases, including feasibility studies, outline business cases (OBC), and detailed scheme designs. Provide project management expertise to individuals in the project team and ensure that the leads have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery. Design, facilitate and effectively lead project management meetings with stakeholders; ensuring breadth in participation and a focus on action planning. Develop and maintain effective project reporting to project boards. Proactively mitigate risk across all project activity, and assure that programme / project leads and stakeholders are aware. Determine and allocate staff and other resources for the project, monitoring work allocation and re-allocating as necessary to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality. Use appropriate project management practices and facilitate meetings of clinicians, managers, patients and other partners to agree priorities and action plans. Proactively monitor progress to ensure the project is managed in line with the Trust’s Values, Standing Financial Instructions, project management processes, and in compliance with appropriate legislation, statutory approvals and mandatory standards. Plan and implement appropriate 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. Staff and stakeholder management Manage engagement plans for projects 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 Information management Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate project information management systems, ensuring they are fit for purpose to a range of audiences. Strategy, change and service improvement Manage the development of a project strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice. General Autonomy for specific areas of directorate, to assess the impact of change and make decisions, balancing risks and priorities Person specification Qualifications/ Education Essential criteria Educated to masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience. Formal qualification in Project management (PRINCE 2) to practitioner level or equivalent Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development. Experience Essential criteria Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures. Project management experience in managing complex services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment. Experience of managing complex budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management. Desirable criteria Knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas. Skills / Knowledge / Ability Essential criteria Extensive knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques. Extensive knowledge of contract management. Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management. Highly effective people and project management skills. Use advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data. Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements. Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change. Excellent management skills including motivating and coaching staff. Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively. Ability to find IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in particular in Excel and MS Project. 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." Further details / informal visits contact Name Rik Karadia-Hudson Job title Deputy Head of Central Portfolio Office Email address [email protected]