Location
London

Hours
Hybrid working environment with a blend of office and homeworking

Salary
£71,148 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust includes Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, King’s College Hospital, and King’s College London, forming part of King’s Health Partners, a leading academic health sciences centre.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Partnership team. This role supports the delivery of the Partnership’s vision to be a world-leading collaboration in heart, lung and critical care, delivering pioneering care, research and education.

The post is available as a permanent position or secondment. The Partnership works closely with multiple organisations including Imperial College and Brunel University, aiming to improve patient outcomes through service redesign, education, research and integration across healthcare providers.

As Project Manager, you will drive the momentum of various workstreams, primarily within the respiratory portfolio, supporting integration, service redesign, education and research. You will collaborate with clinicians and operational colleagues to advance the integration agenda, design and deliver high-quality meetings and workshops, and support clinical-academic integration workplans including tracking expenditure and measuring outcomes. You will also align the Partnership’s work with wider system structures such as networks and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).

Our vision is to be known as the best place to be cared for, to work and develop careers, and for academic and industry partners to collaborate with, by delivering excellent patient outcomes, supporting staff development, and leading ground-breaking research.

Experience
- Substantial NHS experience facilitating and managing change within and across healthcare organisations
- Experience at both Project Management and Programme Management levels
- Benefit management experience in complex service design, development, implementation and change management
- Proven ability to work with and influence senior management and clinicians
- Experience managing financial resources and delivering projects within budget
- Skilled in problem solving and supporting others to develop this skill
- Excellent communication skills, including motivating, negotiating, training, coaching and reassuring in complex or uncertain environments
- Experience managing and facilitating public and patient engagement
- Knowledge of project documentation including Project Briefs, PIDs, Implementation Plans, Highlight and Exception Reports, Risk Logs, and Closure Reports
- Ability to present delivery metrics using various tools

About you
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to understand different perspectives and manage situations beyond your control
- Comfortable building strong relationships with clinicians, academics, patient representatives and stakeholders
- Exceptional drive and motivation, a team player who thrives in a matrix structure and fast-paced environment
- Enjoys leading workshops, facilitating difficult conversations and driving change
- Ability to meet competing deadlines and complete tasks efficiently
- Willingness to listen, question and challenge ideas appropriately
- Commitment to professional development for self and others

Qualifications
- Essential: Educated to first degree level or significant experience as a manager in the NHS at Band 7 or above
- Desirable: Project Management qualification
- Desirable: Proven ability to manage data and information effectively within a service improvement environment