Kamla Patel

Experience

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  Equality and Human Rights Commission

  Feb 2007 - Mar 2008

  Project Lead, Disposals Project

  Project managed the wind-down activities of three legacy Commissions’, including the closure of the final accounts, transfer of fixed assets, application of legacy pay remits, identifying pension liabilities and disposals of legacy properties. Project managed the Transition Team’s internal ICT system, undertaking negotiations with contractors, suppliers and Department for Trade and Industry building and ICT management teams. This project was delivered within a six week timeframe.

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  St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust

  Jul 2008 - Nov 2008

  ICLIP Project Manager

  Led the implementation of two projects:- Data Warehouse and Business Information System – reporting system;- Registration Authority project – a smartcard system for staff to access new patient records, in line with a national rollout of a new care records system across the NHS.

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  Digital UK

  Nov 2008 - Nov 2012

  TV Switchover Project Manager

  Led the planning and management of the Digital TV Switchover projects, preparing TV viewers in the UK to switch from analogue to digital television. TV Switchover, one of the biggest engineering and consumer change programmes in the UK, impacted more than 26 million homes and delivery spanned across a wide range of multi-agencies and stakeholders. While the programme was complex and challenging it was successfully delivered on time and within budget. The programme was rated green status by the OGC in its last two years – a rare achievement for such a complex programme. My role involved: - planning, monitoring and reviewing the progress of workstream and stakeholder plans and activities, ensuring the successful delivery of switchover projects across the UK; - developing weekly progress, checkpoint and lessons learned reports and briefing notices for communication of project/programme progress to governance groups, SMT, workstreams and stakeholders;- identifying, logging and communicating risks, issues and dependencies to workstream leads and stakeholders, contingency planning and facilitating the resolution of risks and issues;- ensuring effective stakeholder engagement - project sponsors, DUK delivery teams, partners and contractors; - translating highly complex technical information about engineering works, aerials and equipment etc into plain language for wider communication by operational teams to the media, trade and TV viewers. - Developed an on-line planning and reporting tool to support the management and communication of plans and activities across the organisation and stakeholder groups, empowering teams to maintain their own plans, but acting as a Centre of Excellence, reminding and checking along the process. - Led the development of third sector plans and reporting processes in collaboration with an outsourced outreach team, ensuring the successful delivery of support to viewers who needed extra help. Show less

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  UK Trade and Investment

  Nov 2013 - Aug 2014

  Sirius Project Manager

  The Sirius Programme, a global graduate entrepreneurship pilot programme set up by the UK Government, offers graduate entrepreneurs from across the world the opportunity to set up their businesses in the UK.Re-engineered structures and processes of the UKTI’s Sirius Programme, helping to attract more than 1,500 applicants from across the world in its first year and establish 50 global businesses in the UK (£3.5 million programme).

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  St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Change Manager - Electronic Document Management

  Led the delivery of one of the five IT programmes at the Trust providing efficiency within clinical care and improving the patient pathway with the introduction of a paper-lite patient records system.Responsibilities included:- Leading the rollout of the EDM system across the Trust, negotiating and influencing clinicians and staff across the Trust to change existing practices and processes.- Line managed up to eight members of the EDM team, comprising of change agents, project assistants and IT systems developer. - Managing all EDM related communications across the Trust and the trust-wide EDM training programme.- Stakeholder engagement lead, negotiating with external providers and internal IT teams for continuous improvements. Show less

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  The Mossbourne Federation

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Director of Operations

  Managed the Federation’s schools estates, facilities, ICT and telecommunications services and led projects across four schools academies. ➢ Led the organisational change of the site and security services, establishing job roles, pay bands, KPIs and development programmes. Reviewed the ICT and telecommunication services, streamlining job roles, desktop tools and processes. ➢ Led the building programme of a new primary school, which launched in August 2016➢ Line managed the ICT, site teams and project managers, motivating, coaching and performance managing each team. Show less

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  St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Nov 2018 - Nov 2019

  Referral Management and Digital Outpatient Project Manager

  Led the Referral Management change programme, comprising the decommissioning of an old triaging system and moving referral management into the Trust’s main integrated clinical information system. ➢ Stakeholder engagement with clinical service management teams, senior clinicians and administration teams responsible for processing referrals.➢ Responsible for overseeing the technical build within iCLIP (PAS system), ensuring service requirements were being met, undertaking negotiations with both internal clinical information teams and third party providers. ➢ Led the change programme ensuring the rollout of the new system within the agreed timelines. Show less

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  Homes England

  Sept 2020 - Dec 2023

  Senior Manager Building Remediation

  Provide support to the management of the Building Safety Fund (BSF) process, ensuring efficient delivery, monitoring and reporting of BSF activities within a rapidly changing environment. Caseworker for a number of high profiled and complex Fund applications on a day to day basis, supporting Freeholders, property and asset managers to progress applications through the approval process, to start on site and final payments. Stakeholder engagement, close working and ensuring effective relationships with Government, grant applicants, external professional technical and legal teams who support the diligence and contracting requirements of the Fund. Train new members of the BSF Team, ensuring new colleagues have a strong understanding of the BSF processes and overseeing key activities are being delivered as required by the Fund. Acted as Legal Champion, supporting Caseworker colleagues with legal queries and facilitating activities between legal teams and Caseworkers.Responsible for producing external communications for Applicants. Show less