Professional Relationships Project Manager

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work - speaking with one voice to the service.

This versatile national role sits in the Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E) Education and Training sub directorate. The successful candidate will work as part of the Professional Relationships Team to deliver an efficient and effective support service to the Professional Education and Strategic Leadership Function. This support will include ensuring effective relations with a range of professional (external and internal) and public stakeholders; ensuring that areas of work are planned and managed effectively; and establishing and maintaining business processes and providing high level administrative support.

Duties Include

• Project managing dedicated workstreams and supporting other members of the team to ensure effective delivery.
• Using analytical and judgmental skills to analyse complex information that requires interpretation and appraisal of options.
• Using persuasion and negotiation skills where necessary, e.g. when liaising with stakeholders.
• Reporting progress and outcomes of work to relevant SROs and oversight groups within governance structures.
• Providing and receiving highly complex and often sensitive and contentious information.
• Preparing reports and presentations for a variety of audiences, with the ability to adjust approach to audiences with potentially differing levels of understanding.
• Ensuring all communication channels are consistent and used appropriately to facilitate timely exchange of information.
  
  

The NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
  
  

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kellie Espie-Whitburn Job title: Professional Relationships Programme Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07776454103