Job Description

Now is the perfect time for a Senior Planner to join NHS Shared business Services. This is a phenomenal opportunity, unlike any other, you will be building and developing your own team of Junior Planners who will report direct into yourself, alongside working closely with high profile clients. You will have the flexibility to make this role, and the team, your own. You need to be confident in presenting at a senior level, have a passion for Planning and want to be part of a company that is a certified Great Place to Work.
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 5 days a week if needed.
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:

• Establishing and maintaining effective project controls, using established project management tools
• Producing and maintaining good project plans, schedules, and progress reports
• Implementing project plans
• Supporting the motivation and coordination of the project team
• Tracking the progress of work against the schedule and ensuring good baseline management
• Generating and reporting project MI to partners
• Writing standards
• Running workshops & training
• Handling planning standards across all programmes

What you\'ll bring:

• Demonstrated project planning experience, ideally large scale
• Strong communication skills - dealing with high profile stakeholders at senior level
• Experience in presenting to stakeholders
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Line management experience
• Ability to design and develop and deploy policies frameworks and delivery structure
• Experience writing enterprise level framework

It would be great if you had:

• Prince2
• P6
• Proven understanding of programme management processes

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 \xc2\xa360,000 dependent on experience & training & development needs
Benefits: \xc2\xa35,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, 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?

Sopra Steria