Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd

Project Manager - Cost Improvement Programme Practitioner - OUTSIDE IR35 - HYBRID
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📅 Date Posted

Jan 31, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

💵 Rate

Unknown

Description

A Healthcare specialist IT consultancy is in need of a Cost Improvement Programme Practitioner to onboard within the team to service current Healthcare client base. In order to drive the service changes and savings required to achieve the Health Board's Cost Improvement Programme (CIP).

Reporting Structure:
- Reporting to the Principle Project Manager within the PMO.
- Work closely with senior managers and clinicians across the Health Board.

Role Overview:
- Plan and implement specific projects within the Programme Management Office CIP Programme.
- Demonstrate success in managing complex service changes involving engagement with multiple stakeholders.
- Embrace transformational change required by the Health Board for a challenging CIP savings Programme.

Team Environment:
- Join a new forward-thinking and ambitious team focusing on delivery and achieving better outcomes.

Main Duties of the Job:
- Lead on a range of service improvement projects and development initiatives driven by the Health Board's Cost Improvement Programme (CIP).
- Support Transformation of care across NHS end-clients as part of the Programme Management Office.
- Promote innovation and best practice in bringing about service change in support of national priorities.
- Coordinate, develop, and implement projects designed to transform health services delivery for achieving required CIP's.

Project Implementation:
- Facilitate transformed model of service delivery across organisational boundaries.

Documentation Responsibilities:
- Produce project initiation documents, project plans, risk registers, and other documentation throughout project life cycle.

Essential Qualifications & Experience Required:
1. Healthcare CIP experience
2. Project Management Practitioner Qualification (e.g., PRINCE2) or equivalent experience
3. Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge Requirements:

Essential Knowledge:
1. Change management methodologies (e.g., LEAN)
2. Techniques for planning, monitoring, controlling projects (e.g., PRINCE2)

Desirable Knowledge:
1. Financial procedures/policies in large Healthcare Public Sector organisation

Experience Requirements:

Essential Experience:
1. Working within health alongside local authorities/third sector at operational/strategic levels
2. Successfully managing change
3. Developing/implementing strategic plans
4. Understanding delivery milestones; implementing project plan actions/tasks
5. Managing portfolio of projects ranging in complexity; escalation/responses as needed
6. Implementing service developments based on policy/targets
7. General understanding healthcare governance/performance management/improvement in NHS
8. Working with public/patients/service users
9. Managing change in NHS
10.Working with finance practices/budgets/financial systems

Skills & Abilities:

Essential Skills:
1.Excellent organisational skills
2.Ability to prioritize workload effectively
3.Interpersonal skills; influencing/negotiate - proven ability establishing/enhancing effective working relationships at all levels
4.Ability utilizing IT for e-working; proficiency Microsoft Office software including Outlook, Word, Excel PowerPoint
5.Excellent communication skills both written/oral
6.Proven ability meeting deadlines/work under pressure
7.Ability problem solve/apply lateral thinking
8.Excellent time management

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