Project Manager – Start Well

Job overview

The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering the Start Well programme, which aims to transform maternity, neonatal, and paediatric services across North Central London to ensure every child has the best start in life.

Reporting to the Programme Manager, the post holder will manage defined projects and workstreams within the programme, ensuring they are well-organised, delivered on time, and achieve agreed outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate project activities, including scheduling, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and updates for programme boards and stakeholders.
• Support the development and implementation of new models of care and service pathways.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with clinical and operational teams to gather input and drive consensus.
• Ensure compliance with governance processes and maintain accurate project documentation.
• Contribute to benefits tracking and evaluation to demonstrate value for money and improved outcomes. ·

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Coordinate project activities, including scheduling, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and updates for programme boards and stakeholders.
• Support the development and implementation of new models of care and service pathways.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with clinical and operational teams to gather input and drive consensus.
• Ensure compliance with governance processes and maintain accurate project documentation.
• Contribute to benefits tracking and evaluation to demonstrate value for money and improved outcomes. Project Management
• Support the programme team and director in the delivery of project plans, undertaking and allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
• Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to, and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
• Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
• Responsible for the planning and organisation of numerous events/meetings. Ensuring
• communication tools are used to their maximum value for circulating the minutes, agenda, and presentations in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.
• Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, are actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.
• Responsible for planning and organising a wide range of highly complex activities, including
• stakeholder management, clinical expert groups and project governance groups
• Responsible for the development of systems and performance analytics to manage and report on the progress of the project to key groups such as the Programme Board and Implementation Leadership Group
• Responsible for the analysis and interpretation of a range of information and its presentation to a wide variety of stakeholders.