Project Manager – Transformation inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED SAT 30 DEC 2023

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification which provides more detail on core responsibilities.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service are embarking on a major transformation project to change the primary triage tool for 999 call handling in the Emergency Operations Centre from AMPDS ProQA to NHS Pathways, in order to provide the most appropriate patient care and improve operational efficiency. This is an exciting new role to support the successful delivery of this project.

The Project Manager will be a key member of the project implementation team, working closely with other project team members, stakeholders across the organisation and external partners. They will be responsible for the delivery of one or more workstreams, ensuring that timescales, project objectives, benefits and outcomes are achieved within agreed tolerances. This will progress significant organisational change, including establishing new systems and ways of working, and retraining of staff.

The Project Manager will:

• be responsible for delivery of a clear and agreed projects of work aligned to the Trust's Transformation Strategy. Be responsible for ensuring effective project governance is in place, developing and presenting a variety of documents and reports, developing plans, managing, and monitoring progress, risks and issues and providing stakeholder management and communications.
• ensure that standard project management methodologies are consistently applied. They will be responsible for maintaining and monitoring progress on all aspects of the project, enabling robust monthly reports to be delivered to the Executive Transformation Programme Board and other key meetings.
• be responsible for leading and managing the project from its initial set up through the delivery of new capabilities and realisation of benefits to project closure.
• determine which issues among the projects should be escalated and dealing with the escalated issues.
• be responsible for day-to-day delivery and benefit realisation.
• provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, and communicate its messages to a wide range of stakeholders in a range of settings.
• support the continuous improvement of the Trust PMO to enhance project management standards and capability across the Trust, improving overall delivery confidence in, and reducing risk for, the design and delivery of inter-related change projects and programmes.