Welcome from our Chief Executive

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.

Job overview

This role will be challenging, working across a complex suite of programmes and organisations. This will require the ability to develop practical, innovative and creative solutions to the management of issues, not least of which will be developing understanding around the work and how this is intrinsic and integral to the delivery of the wider programme. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisation skills are essential for the role This role will involve liaising with internal and external senior stakeholders to deliver projects and initiatives.

SHCP is committed to a wide-ranging portfolio of programmes which draw on the new partnership arrangements within the ICS for delivery. Programmes are arranged within three Collaborative Networks and four Enabling Programmes.

The Mental Health Collaborative are recruiting a project manager to support delivery of outcomes, value-based healthcare, health inequalities work and supporting the population health agenda

Main duties of the job

• As Project Manager you will support the programme lead to ensure that their work stream is planned and managed effectively.
• You will be personally responsible for the delivery of one or more projects within the ICS Mental Health programme to time, budget and the required quality.
• Applying project management, quality improvement and best practice tools and techniques in a consistent manner across the projects within your responsibility.
• Get along side teams in delivering and evaluating outcomes and impact.
• Identify project risks and escalate as and when appropriate ensuring proactive and timely resolution.
• Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working/steering groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where required.
• Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function.
• Work with the Head of Programme and members of the wider team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.

Working for our organisation

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 the ICBs, acute hospital trusts, mental health, community services and ambulance trusts along with 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 ill health, 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

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 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.

• 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 Head of Programme and to the appropriate Project/Programme meetings with progress of the project(s) within the post holder's area of responsibility, escalating issues as
• Manage the project workload of all assigned project resources, securing their time from colleagues and peers across the

Person specification

Essential
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
• Formal qualification and/or substantial working knowledge of MS Project or similar planning tool.
• Demonstrated experience of managing projects in complex and challenging environments, including all stages: Initiation, startup, planning, execution, benefits realisation and closure.
• Experience of managing and reporting project progress, risks and issues through appropriate logs and Highlight/Exception reports.
• Experience of managing Project Board meetings include the setting of agenda, drafting all associated papers and correspondence and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to develop Project Initiation Documents following Business Case approval and building on the details in the Business Case.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
• Skills in planning techniques including Gantt Charts, Pert analysis, Project Breakdown Structures and Resource Estimation.

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.