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 *1 x Fixed Term contract/secondment opportunity for 12 months** ** Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment* Role Responsibility Are you passionate about championing neurodiversity and autism and creating inclusive environments for autistic people? Do you have exceptional project management skills and a strong commitment to driving positive change? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! This is an incredibly creative role for someone who loves a new challenge that can make a positive change to people’s lives. We are looking for a values-driven candidate with excellent project management and facilitation skills and with good understanding and awareness of autism gained by learning from similar projects and/or interacting with autistic people/experts by experience. Ability to flex your approach and communication style to meet the needs of autistic people who use our hospital and community services and their families is essential for this role. We welcome candidates with lived experience of autism. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Main duties of the job The Role: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Project Manager, with experience in co-development initiatives on a 1 year fixed-term contract, to join our Autism strategy programme. In this role, you will play a vital part in managing the development of the new all-age autism strategy. You will be responsible for delivering the successful completion of the strategy development process (and projects to support this) from initiation to closure. This role involves coordinating and managing various aspects of the autism strategy development programme to ensure its objectives are met within the defined scope, budget, and timelines. Key tasks include working together with autistic people and their support networks, to deliver successful listening and other engagement events with autistic people of all ages. Working for our organisation Department Information The Corporate Nursing team, under the leadership of the Chief Nurse is responsible for the delivery and administration of the statutory and professional portfolio of the Chief Nurse. The collective portfolio includes leadership of the Nursing and Midwifery profession, with a focus on being visible and clinically credible. The Chief Nurses Office is also responsible for patient experience, Safeguarding and Infection, Prevention and Control and for the development of the Nursing and Midwifery professional agenda, providing leadership to circa 9000 Nurses and Midwives. The office supports the operational and strategic delivery and achievement of organisational goals and reports to the Trust Board on a range of Nursing and Midwifery metrics which include quality, safety, research, safe staffing, Infection, Prevention and Control, patient experience and vulnerable people. Organisational Values: Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust. The post holder will: a. Put patients first b. Take pride in what they do c. Respect others d. Strive to be the best e. Act with integrity Our values and behaviours framework | describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action. The framework can be found on our Trust careers pages and GTi (intranet). Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Summary Trust all-age autism strategy development The Chief Nurse’s Office (CNO) with the support of Trust Strategy team, are leading work with autistic people, staff from across the Trust, other key stakeholders, partners, local community organisations, to develop this co-produced strategy (through a phased approach). The strategy will set out our organisational vision and long-term strategic framework to ensure that we provide outstanding, consistent, equal and accessible care for all autistic patients (adults, children and young people). The co-development of this strategy with autistic people (and those who care for and support them) who use our services is a central and underpinning priority for this work. The Autism strategy Project Manager is the lead role of this project who will be responsible for certain engagement and strategy development elements of the strategy, its direct delivery as well as coordinating key professionals who will work on this project and liaising with key agencies and partner organisations. The post-holder is responsible for providing project management and support to ensure outputs are delivered effectively. The post holder will be line managed by the Director of nursing who is leading this programme and supervised by the Trust strategy manager. This post will work closely and clinical and non-clinical professionals from across the organisation. The successful candidate will co-ordinate the workstreams that would shape the context in which the new Trust autism strategy will be written, and in which it will need to be delivered. The workstreams are made up of clinical and non-clinical senior leaders and people with lived experience, ensuring that the voice of autistic people is rooted in every element of the project from inception to implementation to evaluation. The post holder will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective development of the strategic workstreams which are the key components of the new strategy and delivery of objectives. This is an incredibly creative role for someone who loves a new challenge that can make a positive change to people’s lives. We are looking for a values-driven candidate with previous experience of managing projects, advanced knowledge of autism and ability to flex their approach and communication style to meet the needs of the people who use our hospital and community services and their families. Key Relationships The post holder will have regular contact with a wide range of clinical and managerial senior leaders, clinical and administrative staff at many levels and with autistic people who use our services, their families/support network and external agencies. Key relationships for this role include the Autism strategy steering group, the neurodiversity staff network, Trust Clinical Groups, the GSTT Chief Nurse’s Office and the Department of Strategy. As the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our patients, our staff and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we’ll make it work for you. Duties and Responsibilities Project Management · Specific responsibilities and duties are listed in the person specification below. · Support the development of the new autism strategy and the delivery of agreed milestones and objectives. · Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely way and actions are followed up. · Organise and coordinate meetings, workshops, engagement activities with admin, management and clinical teams and autistic people who use our services. Produce presentation material and follow up information to introduce change projects and delivery plans. · Communicate information on the delivery progress of the strategic workstreams to key internal and external stakeholders as required. · Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per workstream, tracking milestones, for circulation to workstream members, stakeholders and senior leaders. · 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. · Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner. Staff and stakeholder management · Support approach to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers, clinicians and autistic people with lived experience. · Support engagement plans for the project to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, autistic people and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project. · Support delivery plans and ensure these are regularly updated for all workstreams. Strategy, change and service improvement · Support the development of this strategy to identify, develop and promote best practice. · Support innovative methods to co-development and to gain patient and public involvement to inform direction setting, improvement and user experience · 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 project management and service improvement techniques. · Undertake relevant training that will support with improving skills, knowledge and understanding of the needs of autistic people and its vital importance. Person specification Qualifications / Education Essential criteria Degree level education or equivalent knowledge. Project Management qualification Evidence of recent continuing professional development. Previous experience Essential criteria Good understanding of co-production initiatives. Previous experience of working with autistic people Understanding of the needs of autistic people Experience of facilitating groups with autistic people Evidence of managing successful projects Knowledge of NHS environment and sector Desirable criteria Experience of working on co-production initiatives and projects that deliver support for vulnerable adults and/or children. Skills / Knowledge / Ability Essential criteria Excellent communication and organisational skills (written and verbal) adaptable to different populations including: colleagues, external professionals, people who use our services and their families/support networks. Experience of producing papers and reports and in accessible formats IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes. 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 Angeliki Humphries Job title Trust Strategy Manager Email address [email protected] Telephone number 02071887188