Project Manager & PA

Job overview

This post will be part of the Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Divisional Management Team. The role of the post holder is to support the Division to effectively deliver our strategy through the provision of expert project management practice and support and in addition be responsible for providing high quality, confidential and efficient administrative and PA support to the Director of Services for the Division.

As Learning Disability Project Manager & PA you will work directly with the Corporate and Divisional teams across the Trust to support the delivery of our priority improvement plans, whilst also being responsible for the effective diary management of Director of Services time and provide some levels of administrative and project support to other members of the Divisions Senior Management Team.

The role requires a forward thinking and innovative individual with project management skills and experience of working across professional and organisational boundaries to deliver sustainable improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a clear and visible overview of the divisional project activity to support the safe and timely delivery of key projects.
• Ensure sound project governance and reporting arrangements are established for all key projects and other pieces of work undertaken for the division; defining and establishing the standard for all documentation, from start to finish, providing these tools and, where necessary, supporting teams to populate them.
• Provide advice, challenge and practical help to teams to define and plot clear plans which will deliver the change, and outcomes/benefits, they need.
• Lead the active project management of key projects to deliver our Strategic Plan, e.g. strategic direction for Social Care Services, holding all workstream leads to account for delivery outcomes against agreed milestones.
• Use project management experience and skills to understand highly complex situations and information, identify issues, gather, collate and sift information.
• Work with the Quality Improvement team to help drive and mobilise innovations and improvements across the division.
• Work with the divisional teams to clearly articulate risks that have been identified within the project(s) and ensure they are recorded on our risk register as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.