Project Manager

The post holder will be responsible for project managing the mobilisation of the new 13 Neighbourhood Mental Health teams.

Reporting to the AD for Community Transformation, this role provides high-quality project management, delivery leadership and stakeholder engagement across the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme (CMHTP). The post-holder will lead the planning and delivery of complex transformation initiatives across specific workstreams, applying project management methodologies to manage risks, dependencies, governance and benefits realisation. They will build effective relationships across multiple stakeholders and support decision-making through the production of high-quality analysis, options appraisals, briefings, Programme Board papers/Highlight Reports and programme reporting across workstreams, including Training, Estates and Operations.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM

Location: 18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead KT22 7AD

Project Management: Manage the delivery of discrete projects and workstreams, developing and maintaining project plans, risks, issues, dependencies and change controls to ensure delivery against agreed milestones and objectives. Maintain action and decision logs, ensuring actions are owned, tracked and completed. Support benefits realisation, ensuring Project/Workstream objectives can be tracked, achieved and evidenced

Relationship Management: Build effective relationships with stakeholders across the Neighbourhood Division, Corporate Functions and CMHTP supporting workstreams. Manage complexity and interdependencies across workstreams, proactively resolving barriers and escalating risks where appropriate.

Writing: Produce high-quality options appraisals, briefing papers, highlight reports and Programme/Delivery Board presentations, ensuring outputs are evidence-based, accurate and suitable for senior decision-making.

Transformation: Lead or support current-state and future-state analysis, options appraisal, implementation planning and readiness assessments to support successful mobilisation and delivery of transformation initiatives.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Qualifications

Essential: - Graduate qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable: - Project Management qualification (Prince2 or equivalent) or equivalent experience

Experience

Knowledge

Desirable: - Systemone