Project Planner

Now is the perfect time for a Project Planner to join NHS Shared business Services. This is an excellent opportunity to join a new and 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 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.

We are ideally looking for someone who has the flexibility to come into the Leeds office 3 days a week.

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

What you will 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 as required


• 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


• 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:

• Must have previous project planning/scheduling experience


• Experience of Microsoft Project or similar planning tool


• Experience in Identifying project deviations and producing slippage reports


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 dependent on experience & training & development needs

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, 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 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, 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?


• Proven project planning experience, ideally large scale


• 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:

• Must have previous project planning/scheduling experience


• Experience of Microsoft Project or similar planning tool


• Experience in Identifying project deviations and producing slippage reports
  
  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, 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 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, 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?

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.