Project Manager & PA

• Provide a clear and visible overview of the divisional project activity to support the safe and timely delivery of key projects.
• Ensure sound project governance and reporting arrangements are established for all key projects and other pieces of work undertaken for the division; defining and establishing the standard for all documentation, from start to finish, providing these tools and, where necessary, supporting teams to populate them.
• Provide advice, challenge and practical help to teams to define and plot clear plans which will deliver the change, and outcomes/benefits, they need.
• Lead the active project management of key projects to deliver our Strategic Plan, e.g. strategic direction for Social Care Services, holding all workstream leads to account for delivery outcomes against agreed milestones.
• Use project management experience and skills to understand highly complex situations and information, identify issues, gather, collate and sift information.
• Work with the Quality Improvement team to help drive and mobilise innovations and improvements across the division.
• Work with the divisional teams to clearly articulate risks that have been identified within the project(s) and ensure they are recorded on our risk register as appropriate.

Essential

• Experience delivering successfully implemented project within a Prince 2 and or Agile methodology
• Knowledge and experience of delivering projects across organisational boundaries
• Experience working as a PA
• Good understanding of risk management and management of risk factors
• Experience of presenting complex ideas clearly and efficiently
• Proficient in using Microsoft packages e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel etc.

Desirable

• Experience in working in the NHS and the public sector; experience of working within the mental health and learning disability sector is desirable but not essential