3 Temporary, Project Management jobs in Southport, Sefton

We are seeking a passionate and enthusiastic senior project manager as part of our Digital PMO team. The post holder will support, monitor and manage a range of digital projects using Prince 2 methodology to ensure that a standard project management approach is built into all aspects of the project work. This post involves working across the organisation and liaising with various clinical, operational and administrative teams across all hospital sites supporting the delivery of their IM&T strategies.

• The post holder will produce and present all project documentation including PIDs, Project Plans, Implementation Plans, Milestone Plans, Highlight Reports, Risks and Issues and any other documentation as required by the Programme Manager or Project Boards/Steering Groups and will assimilate a wide range of complex and sensitive information. All activities will utilise appropriate tools and methodologies such as Prince and MSP., The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the management and monitoring of IT projects ensuring that progress is in line with the overall project plan highlighting variances, identifying key milestones and critical path events and monitor progress against the plan. They will ensure that the projects are undertaken and that interdependencies are identified and that delivery is monitored and reported on to the Programme Manager so that the overall objectives of the projects are met in relation to time and budget., Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.
Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure. Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget. To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and decide how resources are to be used. Including within this is the management of key interdependencies with other projects. Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the programme governance. To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s), including the development and implementation of contingency plans. Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans. Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project. To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programmes/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary. Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate. The postholder will be required to contribute to the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate. The postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress. The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues. The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional policies. Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate. Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work. Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and report on complex information, while coping with ongoing project issues and interruptions., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced). From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.


• Masters Degree or equivalent
• Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects
Desirable criteria
• ITIL Foundation qualification, Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
• Experience of managing a project team
• Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
• Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
• Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
• Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working in a NHS environment
• A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care, Specialist knowledge and indepth Substantial experience of working in a project environment, Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
• Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
• Ability to present project management techniques and tools
• Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users.
• Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.