Band 8b Portfolio Project Manager

BHRUT's People and Culture team is committed to ensuring we provide equity of opportunity to career enhancing and professional development for all its staff, learners and local people within the communities it serves.The Education and Workforce Development Team is looking to recruit a Portfolio Project Manager to lead the delivery of a defined portfolio of education and workforce development change activities and interventions. Candidates are asked to note this role is a fixed term role for 15 months and open to internal Trust staff only.

The Portfolio Project Manager role is a leadership role and is required to lead and manage the delivery of a portfolio of defined activities, pilots, projects related activities linked to NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (2023), NHS Education Contract 2024, BHRUT Careers Promise, and key organisational priorities of our academic partners and education commissioners., The Portfolio Projects Manager is a portfolio leadership role and is primarily require to mitigate risk to portfolio and project failure and potential reputational damage to the Trust. It is a fully funded 15-month fixed term leadership role and is required to manage the delivery of a portfolio of defined activities, pilots, projects related activities linked to BHRUT Career Maps, BHRUT Career Promise, NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, NHS Education Contract 2024 and key organisational strategies of key academic partners and education commissioners. Through this role, BHRUT will fulfil its obligations to its stakeholders by way of high quality portfolio management, collaborative working and exemplary stakeholder management.

In this role, you will lead the delivery and development of a portfolio of activities working closely with our diverse stakeholder and partners within London, the Trust and nationally.

You will be a skilled and inclusive people manager and leader, with a high level of interpersonal and communication skills. Knowledge and experience of portfolio management, process mapping and analysis and change management is essential, preferably within a learning and development or people management service.

As the ideal candidate, you will be an experienced and talented portfolio project manager looking for a leadership and/or career challenge and committed to making a unique difference to the career journeys of learners, educators, managers and leaders within the Trust.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.