Welcome from our Chief Executive - Samantha Allen

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Samantha Allen

Chief Executive

Job overview
Project Manager (B7)
Introduction

The Sussex Health and Care Partnership brings together the organisations involved in the planning and provision of health and care services across the region. This includes CCGs, acute hospital trusts, mental health, community services, and local authorities.

Together they are focused on how the NHS and social care can work together to improve and join-up services to meet the changing needs of all of the people who live in our area. We want to do more to prevent illness, support people to manage existing health conditions and to stay independent. To do this we need seamless health and social care services.

This is a partnership and a new way of working. It ensures that all the health and care organisations in Sussex are working together in a joined-up way.

Main duties of the job

The ICS Mental Health Project Manager will work as part of a dynamic ICS core team supporting Sussex mental health transformation programmes with a specific focus on helping to develop, maintain and progress plans and associated project documentation that will see success in seeing more for people with severe mental health illnesses receiving physical health checks.

The post holder will support with preparation and implementation of the Physical Health Checks Programme and ensuring the upkeep of the reporting system including completing QIA's and EHIA's as required.

Working for our organisation

Mental Health Collaborative

The Sussex Health and Care Partnership is a maturing system that is leading a truly collaborative approach in its vision for, and investment in, mental health services.The approach aims to use our collective resources across Sussex to best effect, and should provide effective partnership arrangements for the continued development of a strategic approach to the implementation the Sussex-wide programme of mental health transformation and the ambitions described in the NHS Long Term plan.

The Mental Health Collaborative are recruiting a project manager to support delivery of the Physical Health Checks (PHC) for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) transformation programme which aims to enable 60% of people on the SMI register to receive a PHC in 2021/22.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the definition, initiation and delivery of a number of projects within agreed workstream(s) including managing the budget and resources for it as required.
• You will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external, clinical and non-clinical stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met.
• You will participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• Support the Programme Lead with the management of the their workstream and programme of work.
• Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain appropriate project documentation including, highlight reports, exception reports, risk logs, issues logs, Project Initiation Documents, Project Plans, etc.
• Report to the Programme Lead and to the appropriate Project/Programme meetings with progress of the project(s) within the post holder's area of responsibility, escalating issues as necessary.
• Manage the project workload of all assigned project resources, securing their time from colleagues and peers across the ICS.
• Support and help coordinate the activities of the Project Officer in relation to the project(s) within the post holder's area of responsibility.
• Manage any supplier input into project delivery ensuring that they deliver in line with required timescales.
• Manage delegated project budgets in line with the approved Business Case and the overall Programme budget.
• Contribute to the definition of new projects including the writing of Project Briefs, Business Cases, etc. upon request of the Programme Manager.
• You will Manage your own professional development, keeping up-to-date with Project Management methodology (PRINCE2) and helping ensure best practice is used in the management of all projects.
• Help and assist fellow project managers in the delivery of their projects giving advice and guidance where necessary.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Demonstrated experience of managing projects in complex and challenging environments, including all stages: Initiation, startup, planning, execution, benefits realisation and closure.
• Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in writing and verbally with a wide range of people.
• Ability to plan in detail projects within their remit, identifying activities required, timescales and resources.

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.