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Job overview

The Strategy and Partnership Team across NHFT and LPT is a small, high performing team who work flexibly across the two Trusts. Our team want to support NHFT and LPT to deliver outstanding care, where appropriate we want that care to be in partnership with others (other NHS organisations, social care providers, local voluntary and community organisations, with service users and their carers and other stakeholders). In this role, you will report to the Strategy and Partnership Manager for LPT/NHFT and work closely with all members of the team.

Our Strategy and Partnerships function includes:

• Working in partnership internally and externally with stakeholders to deliver our Trust vision and enhanced outcomes for the local population.
• Strategy and Business Planning – Leading on Trust Strategy, the NHS annual planning cycle and delivery assurance.
• New Models of Care Developing and evolving novel models of care and the governance systems and processes necessary for delivering joint working.
• Business Development – Identifying, bidding, and retaining new or existing services.
• Strategic development of our Charity partnerships.

Main duties of the job

The Partnerships Project Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day support, facilitation, and monitoring of specific projects across the Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Group and with other partner organisations.

The role holder will ensure projects are planned, managed, and delivered effectively in line with the Trust’s guidance for managing projects.

You will lead or engage in a broad range of projects in a role that requires collaborative working, excellent project management and facilitation skills, and a ‘can-do attitude’ with a strong focus on delivery. 

You will be responsible for day-to-day supervision of any project administrative support working with you on your portfolio and also provide specialist project related training and / or advice to colleagues as required. This may include clinicians, managers and staff at a variety of levels.

This role will require high levels of concentration and attention to detail working on documents, writing reports, protocols, project related surveys and analysing project related issues and data.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.