Project Manager, Healthcare Management, Program ​/ Project Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Programme Management Office in Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), for a Project Manager.

We are looking for a motivated, organised, enthusiastic, and experienced Project Manager who understands the challenges of delivering something new and want to use their skills to support and enable the delivery of clinical and operational projects, as outlined in the VCC IMTP.

In this role you will be building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across our organisation, managing key projects from inception to conclusion. The applicant should hold a Project Management qualification and have experience of managing multiple projects within a programme portfolio. The applicant will have excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills and be able to use these skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders, organise events or workshops, and ensure initiation and delivery of multiple projects successfully.

Please refer to the full job description attached for further details.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post;
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service
, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being;

accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

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You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

• Masters or equivalent professional/managerial qualification
• Prince 2 registered practitioner or other recognised qualification in project management
• Evidence of continued professional development / further training
• Member of recognised professional body
• PRINCE 2 agile practitioner and/or experience
• Knowledge of NHS structures and processes

• Good organisational skills, and the ability to identify priorities
• Possesses good written and oral communication skills
• Good report drafting skills and minute taking
• Capable of understanding the wider objectives of the programme
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Project team, stakeholders and third party service providers involved in the delivery of the projects and Programme

• Extensive experience of working in a complex and large scale project management environment and across organisational boundaries (and by influence).
• Successful change management experience, with a proven track record and demonstrated ability of working collaboratively with a variety of organisational levels to deliver programme goals.
• Experience of service improvement methodologies and applied knowledge of how they can be deployed in different settings.
• Experience of facilitating workshops across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Management of project budgets.
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams at varying levels of seniority.
• Principles of programme management and benefits realisation.
• Successful introduction of project management methodologies to inexperienced teams and individuals
• Effective management of resources
• Experience in delivering projects to quality, time and budget requirements, preferably within a change programme environment
• Experience of designing, implementing and managing projects
• Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
• Methodical, organised, analytical with problem solving capabilities.
• Excellent overall management and organisational skills
• Good working knowledge of ICT, project management and management information tools.
• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information.
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams at varying levels of seniority

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