Project Management Office Lead

The post holder will ensure that the standard project management methodologies are applied in accordance with industry best practice, i.e. provide high quality support in developing, maintaining and managing various dashboards, logs, plans, reports and other tools in accordance with a control methodology. A key function of the role is to support the delivery of the programmes and projects, as well as highlighting testing and challenging where necessary and escalating risks, issues and obstacles to the Executive Sponsor and overall Programme Lead when required, including development of any recovery plans.,

• Providing specialised programme and project management support for transformation projects involving partners across the system and in particular enabling integration of actions by health and localauthority partners and projects to reduce health inequalities.
• Maintaining consistency in PMO processes and monitoring progress on all the associated COCHprogrammes, ensuring robust regular reports to be delivered to a range of committees and Executivesponsors.
• Facilitate and co-ordinate the development of highly complex, sometimes overlapping, and specialised COCH programmes and projects in conjunction with PMO Project Managers, Management Teams, Operational and Clinical Leads, Directors and Executive Sponsors, to develop and enhance the range of services, level of care and health outcomes provided by the West Kent system as a whole.
• Facilitate joint workstream methodologies and reporting to ensure that any efficiencies and/or benefits are allocated correctly.
  
  The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.