Surrey Hospices Partnership - Project Manager Job Woking area,England UK,Management

Surrey Hospices Partnership - Project Manager

Location: Hybrid/any of the 4 hospice sites

Hours of work: 37.5 per week

Salary: £75,000 per annum

Contract: Fixed Term 12 months

We are seeking a Project Manager to undertake a new role supporting the four adult hospices in Surrey, which provide palliative and end-of-life care to people living across Surrey. The role is to support the hospice partnership’s joint vision of working in partnership to provide the best possible support and care, helping to ensure that the hospices have a stronger, collective voice within the wider health and care system and are well positioned to influence future service development and commissioning.

Scope

of the Role

The Project Manager will:

Support the drive for improved data collection and consistent reporting;
Generate ideas for service improvements;
Demonstrate the case for fair funding for all hospices in the collaborative.

Main Duties

Improve integrated palliative and end-of-life care outcomes across Surrey through effective collaboration, innovation, and project delivery.
Develop foundational capabilities needed to operate as a partnership (shared data, ways of working, trusted networks and project capability).
Identify opportunities and develop initiatives to improve consistency and quality of hospice services across Surrey, including working with NHS partners.

Deliverables in the First Year

A common data set covering clinical services, finances and income generation and workforce across the hospices.
Development of effective ways of working and trusted relationships between staff across the hospices and partner organisations.
A case for change/strategy identifying areas where partnership working can deliver greatest benefit, along with a proposed delivery plan.
Individual project proposals to deliver improvements to clinical (and other) services, potentially between hospices or with NHS, local government or other community partners.
Demonstrable early improvements or pilots that evidence the benefit of collaborative working.
Support the coordination of hospice input to NHS and system initiatives and consultations, ensuring a consistent and aligned partnership response.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a common data set, identify common methodologies, tackle inconsistencies and develop a set of KPIs to be agreed by all four hospices. Track those KPIs over time.

Create a programme of activities to build understanding and trust between the four hospice senior leadership teams.

Make proposals for light-touch governance for how the partnership should work as it starts to develop and mature.

Work closely with colleagues in the Sussex Hospice Alliance to ensure (as much as possible) ideas are joined up and aligned.

Use data and insight to identify variation, gaps and opportunities, and support evidence-based decision making across the partnership.

Build the case for change/strategy document identifying opportunities to improve patient outcomes and organisational sustainability, underpinned by robust evidence and data.

Develop a delivery plan with costed project ideas to realise the case for change/strategy, along with an prioritised set of proposals to be agreed by the hospice partnership.

Lead the planning, implementation and evaluation of agreed projects including benefits realisation and measurement of impact.

Act as a central point of contact for collaboration initiatives, and facilitate cross-organisational working.

Support funding applications, including grants, business cases and partnership investments as required.

Produce regular monthly progress reports to keep hospices and other stakeholders informed and engaged on all activities, including keeping track of any expenditure and financial performance.

Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including hospices, NHS and local government partners, primary and secondary care, community and voluntary sector organisations.

Prepare and, as required, present reports to senior leadership, boards and external stakeholders.

Support coordination of hospice input into NHS initiatives, consultations and system programmes, including drafting responses and ensuring a…