Job Introduction
Are you a dynamic and results-driven professional with a passion for healthcare? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and possess the skills necessary to drive change and improvement within the healthcare sector? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you at HCRG Care Group!
You will have experience in Project Leadership where you will lead cross-functional project teams, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget, while meeting established quality and compliance standards. Being able to strategically plan and implement project plans in alignment with HCRG Care Group's strategic objectives whilst collaborating with the senior leadership to define project scope and objectives will be key within this role.
You will need to be able to effectively identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes. You will foster open and clear communication with stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners, and regulatory bodies.
This role is a remote role within Essex with flexibility around the hours that can be worked just ensuring the task is completed. We are considering both full and part time applications for this role.
Main Responsibility
Within your role your key responsibilities will be:
Project Leadership: Lead cross-functional project teams, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget, while meeting established quality and compliance standards.
Strategic Planning: Develop and implement project plans in alignment with HCRG Care Group's strategic objectives. Collaborate with senior leadership to define project scope and objectives.
Resource Management: Allocate resources, including personnel, equipment, and budget, to achieve project goals. Manage resource constraints effectively.
Risk Management: Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes.
Stakeholder Communication: Foster open and clear communication with stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners, and regulatory bodies.
Quality Assurance: Ensure that project outcomes meet the highest quality and regulatory standards within the healthcare industry.
Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the organisation, identifying areas for optimisation and efficiency gains
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a
- Substantial project management experience, including managing investment/critical/priority projects within in complex environments, including accountability for project managing project scoping/set up, definition/planning, delivery and closure
- Direct management of projects requiring co-ordination and co-operation of multiple workstreams and stakeholders
- Experience using a range of business analysis skills including process mapping.
- Evidence of creating, evaluating, monitoring and improving systems and processes
- Financial and resource management and reporting; including project budget management, forecasting and ROI analysis
- Business case development and review skills/experience
- Chairing or leading Project Board’s, meetings or workshops
- Proven experience in leading and embedding change
- Excellent communication skills, written, and verbal with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to obtain clarity where there are ambiguous requirements and multiple decision makers
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel and Powerpoint (software skills) and Smartsheets
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Project and Change Manager within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £55,000 - £60,000 salary and access to our group pension
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Lesuire Vouchers
- We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with the majority of our service being rated as good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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