Project Manager inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED
MON 28 OCT 2024
Successful candidates will work closely with Programme and Delivery Managers and engage with local communities and health services across six localities in West Yorkshire and Harrogate. The focus will be on optimizing cancer care pathways and achieving the objectives set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills are essential for influencing diverse stakeholders and driving project success.
This advert is for a permanent contract.
Several full & part-time opportunities have arisen for experienced, highly motivated candidates to join the Alliance and lead projects aligned to some of our core programmes and cross-cutting areas of work. These roles provide a project management function and support to Programme and Delivery Managers to deliver cancer improvement projects across Optimal Pathways Group and Living with and Beyond Cancer programmes ensuring that activities are aligned, on track to deliver, project milestones are reached and planned outputs realised.
Responsible for delivering multiple complex projects to time, cost, and quality criteria, meeting a range of stakeholder requirements and for ensuring that the projects are delivered as part of an overall programme where delivery responsibility may be outside of your remit; the role requires excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills to influence stakeholders from across a range of organisations. You should be able to demonstrate an appreciation and understanding
The postholders will work as part of a team and proactively engage a wide range of stakeholders to develop system wide projects and pathways working with local communities, health, and social care at a locality level and across WY&H.
The postholder will oversee the delivery of either the Optimal Pathways Group and Living with and Beyond Cancer projects involving teams across six localities; working with colleagues locally to develop improvement projects and exploring opportunities to advance in their delivery across healthcare boundaries.
The successful candidates will require a good understanding of the complexity, challenge, and opportunity of aligning national requirements with Cancer Alliance ambitions and will have experience of leading and delivering projects within cancer or related services to improve outcomes for people affected by cancer, where there are significant and complex interdependencies.
This role will suit individuals that enjoy taking a collaborative approach to solving problems and
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Job Summary
The posts will lead specific project management roles aligned to some of our core programmes and cross-cutting areas of work. They will provide a project management function and support to Programme and Delivery Managers to deliver cancer improvement projects across Diagnostics, Workforce and Liver Cancer programmes making a difference for people in in West Yorkshire and Harrogate. The post holders will work with Programme Managers and Lead Senior Responsible Officers and as part of an Alliance team to ensure project milestones are reached and planned outputs are realised.
You will support programmes and projects of activity which aim to optimise and transform cancer care and outcomes across the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Cancer Alliance, ensuring we can deliver the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions. Working closely with the responsible Programme Manager and as part of the Alliance Project Management Office team, you will work in collaboration with Alliance partners, relevant West Yorkshire Integration
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