Transformation Project Manager

As a member of the Improvement Delivery Team, the Transformation Manager will have day to day responsibility for the scoping, co-ordination, and delivery of Trust projects within the Improvement Delivery Team that support Whittington Health's transformation and improvement agenda. The individual will also work with a clinical division to drive forward operational transformation and cost improvement opportunities.
We are expanding our existing team of programme and project professionals with additional delivery capacity and would welcome candidates with operational experience and project management expertise. The Improvement Delivery Team are focusing on 3 organisation wide transformation programmes including Elective, Flow and Outpatients. Your role will deliver programme management expertise against one of these programmes, to ensure operational transformation is delivered with a project management approach.
As Transformation Manager you will work with multi-disciplinary teams including senior clinicians, operational service teams and corporate support services to ensure a collaborative and well governed approach to transformation and delivery., You will have oversight responsibility for key programmes within the organisation and therefore your ability to negotiate, engage and resolve issues will be critical to ensure successful project delivery. You will work both autonomously and collaboratively with a broad range of colleagues including senior management and clinicians to help identify and deliver financial efficiencies and change for the organisation.
You will have individual responsibility for managing several sub-programmes and projects the Trust's Improvement Programme, enabling the transformation of services. The role will involve delivering changes and improvements that are high priorities, challenging and significant, assessing the impact of change on both the organisation and staff and planning and managing the process to minimise disruption.
Programme and Project Management

• To lead the planning and co-ordination of projects/programmes across the trust


• To set up and lead meetings to deliver projects successfully, ensuring project governance methodology is followed


• To monitor progress against project plans, provide associated documents (PID / Highlight Report / Project Updates) to assorted committee

Communication and Relationships

• Develop strong working relationships with a breadth of stakeholders- e.g. Clinical Director, Operations Director, Service Teams, Executive Communicate with and influence a range of stakeholders


• Responsible for day to day management of junior member(s) of the PMO team, To ensure that projects are implemented adhering to best practice and tools are in place to promote and monitor this.

To work collaboratively with team, service leads and trust operational staff, members of the finance team and external stakeholders to generate and evaluate strategies.
To generate project and implementation plans through the interpretation of policies and strategies to meet Trust business objectives.
Regular requirement to use computer software to develop or create statistical reports requiring formulae, query reports.
To design a comprehensive shared folder (information) system to support the monitoring and progression of cost improvement projects.
To identify opportunities for further Cost Improvement by using local and national benchmarking data.
Responsible for day-to-day management of junior member(s) of the team
Delivery and support to ICSUs for specific training as required e.g., project management.

Medical services have been delivered on the Whittington Hospital site for over 500 years. On 1st April 2011, Whittington Health was launched as a new Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) comprising The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, NHS Islington and NHS Haringey. The Whittington and the community health services in Islington and Haringey are award winning organisations, delivering acute and community based health services to a population of 443,000 people.
The organisation is the biggest employer in the area, with over 4,500 staff; delivering healthcare not only on the acute hospital site which has 420 beds, but also from a variety of other community based health centres and through visits to patients homes across the boroughs to address the health needs of the local population. Whittington Health also works with other health, social care and voluntary sector partners to support patients and service users from their initial appointment whether it be with a community health team or at the hospital, all the way through to treatment and tailored after care.
We are one of the three main teaching campuses for the Royal Free and University College Medical School.
Our ICARE (Innovation, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence) and Equity Values not only help us shape what we do, but also how we do it and why. They are fundamental to the way we do business and care for our patients.