Project Management Course for Healthcare and Social Services, The

  • Health and social services leaders are managing more projects than ever before – and formal project management skills are needed.

    Bonus

    Save on registration when you also attend our Using Microsoft Project Workshop.

    Attend both The Project Management Course for Healthcare and Social Services and Using Microsoft Project Workshop and save $500. The optional 2-Day Microsoft Project Workshop is only $1,545 when you attend the seminar ($2,045 without).

    What You Will Learn

    • Learn essential project terminology to communicate in a blended health or social services team
    • The key phases of the project cycle
    • How to maintain control of time, scope, quality and costs on healthcare and social programs
    • Understanding key stakeholder roles
    • Effective ways to work with other departments and organizations
    • How to establish and use the proper communication channels
    • Develop early warning systems by tracking and measuring progress
    • How to close-out your project and implement best practices on future projects

    Who Should Attend

    • Managers and directors in public sector health, community care, hospitals, and social services agencies
    • Clinical leads or staff involved in or leading projects in hospitals and care facilities
    • Senior health and social services executives with business planning responsibilities
    • Allied Health and Social Services professionals involved in or managing projects
    • Systems, project and operational leads
    • Community care program managers and regional health professionals

    Why Attend This Specialized Project Course for the Health Industry?

    Healthcare agencies, hospitals and community care providers have seen an explosion of demand for services over the last few decades. As a result, managers in these critical sectors are taking on more and more projects, and applied project skills training is needed to succeed.

    The Project Management Course for Healthcare and Social Services teaches you how to use the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) leading approach to managing projects. The approach is a global standard for project management and is used across many industries.

    Receive a comprehensive view of “the total project,” from the planning and organizational stages to the actual implementation stage. Course coverage will also explore the often neglected human and patient side of project management and team/staff motivation.

    This program is delivered with a focus on the context of health driven projects. This may include:

    • Patients and clients as stakeholders
    • Managing a dispersed health team from different departments and agencies
    • Tighter project budgets
    • Working through project challenges unique to health and social services
    • Unique reporting and accountability requirements
    • Addressing the risks and fallout when something goes wrong
    • Working across departments and regions

    Lead Successful Health-Driven Projects

    • York University supports excellence in Project Management across the health sector. Health-Driven projects are transforming healthcare in Canada.

    • “Great opportunity not only to enhance knowledge, skills and competency but also to network with individuals in a similar industry who have worked on similar projects.”

      M. DewhurstProject Coordinator, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

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