Project Planner - #1737954

Are you forward thinking and enjoy working across multiple different complex projects? Now is the perfect time for a Project Planner to join NHS Shared business Services.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our thriving team, you will be working closely with the Senior Project Planner, whilst dealing with high profile clients. The successful Project Planner, will support the creation and management of multiple programme and project plans.

NHS SBS are unique in providing services that represent value for money, with profits reinvested into the NHS as part of our joint venture with the Department of Health and Social Care.

That’s what we are looking for, but what can we offer you? Being part of the team, you will be supported by more senior members and managers from day one, where sharing experiences and knowledge will support your development to become a well-rounded Project Planner.

You will work be based from our modern Leeds office up to 3 days a week, working from home the rest of the time.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Understanding project requirements and maintaining project programmes.
• Creating and maintenance of project plans.
• Monitoring the critical path and dependencies.
• Maintaining live project programmes and collecting periodic progress updates, through collaborating with cross-function teams and clients.
• Preparing reports (weekly & monthly) ensuring plan reports are accurate, validated to deadlines.
• Attending and supporting planning meetings and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating project risks and opportunities to the team.
• Supporting the internal planning processes and ensuring consistency.
• Identifying project deviations and producing slippage reports.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Proven project planning experience, ideally large scale, or within the IT sector.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in presenting to partners.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Ability to design and develop and deploy policies frameworks and delivery structure.
• Experience writing enterprise level framework.
  
  

It would be great if you had:

• Previous project planning/scheduling experience.
• Experience of Microsoft Project or similar planning tool.
• RAID experience.
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Leeds

Security Clearance Level: DBS

Internal Recruiter: Chloe

Salary: Up to £40,000 depending upon experience and development needs

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.