Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Physiological Sciences Accreditation Project Manager - Internal Only

The closing date is 18 July 2025

Job summary

INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY

Royal Papworth Hospital is a centre of Excellence in healthcare, and this extends to the Respiratory Physiology service. The successful applicant will require the holder to be a self-sufficient dynamic person who is forward thinking and above all a team player who is able to work within our team to deliver first class standards of health care. Using your experience as a project manager, you will:

Lead the Physiological Sciences accreditation programme at the Royal Papworth.

Support the Physiological Sciences teams to develop a strong culture of quality and project methodology to deliver IQIPS accreditation to the Trust and sustain the life cycle of accreditation.

Identify gaps in provisions and ensure these are supported, evidenced and implemented in the participating disciplines.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Physiological Sciences Accreditation Project Manager role will require:

Lead the development of policies and procedures for activity; contributing to and ensuring compliance with IQIPS across Patient Experience, Facilities, Resources & Workforce, Safety and Clinical domains.

Be responsible for providing sustainable accreditation oversight, leadership, support and guidance with regard to the projects within the programme. This will include the organisation and allocation of resources and the effective management of budgets as appropriate.

Act as subject matter expert; ensure that all process in the programme are developed in accordance with the accreditation governance requirements including: measuring impact and performance targets, management of interdependencies, coordinating stakeholder engagement, proactively monitoring and reporting on progress against the accreditation timeframe, problem solving and prioritising areas for additional service improvement support.

Be a budget holder for an accreditation budget to ensure the robust financial running of the programme and liaise with finance regularly to set the budget and to ensure robust financial planning and management of all IQIPS allocated financial resources ensuring cost savings where possible.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

175-2526-TH1315

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY


Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree/Post Graduate level or equivalent
  • Relevant change, project and / or programme management qualifications such as Prince2, MSP, Six Sigma, Lean etc

Desirable

  • Managing Successful Programs or equivalent
  • Coaching qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Highly specialist knowledge and experience of the IQIPS physiological service accreditation process.
  • Extensive experience of service transformation, design and development.
  • Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve common goals
  • Experience of working in contentious situations facing challenges to organisational redesign and reluctance to change management.
  • Experience of putting into practice the strategy and associated plans for a specific change and/or programme of change.
  • A sound understanding of Healthcare Science services
  • Knowledge of quality management systems
  • Knowledge of the accreditation process
  • Excellent organisation and project management skills
  • Ability to work independently with very limited guidance and to tight deadlines.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication -- able to draft well written and reasoned outlined business cases.
  • Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with various stakeholders
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Strategic awareness -- able to align transformation programme to Trust objectives
  • Ability to analyse complex business processes, data and procedural issues and to provide creative solutions to problems as they arise.
  • Ability to identify and resolve resistance and blockages, using proven problem solving skills.
  • Able to evaluate situations and assimilate information quickly
  • Effective negotiation and influencing skills
  • Ability to be assertive when appropriate
  • Able to deal with emotionally difficult and challenging situations

Desirable

  • Experience in a challenging Programme Management Office (PMO) function.
  • Significant senior experience in project/programme management delivery with evidence of leading and managing improvement projects in the NHS and/or social care setting
  • Experience of delivering organisational change projects, directly or through the PMO
  • Knowledge of ISO 15189

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree/Post Graduate level or equivalent
  • Relevant change, project and / or programme management qualifications such as Prince2, MSP, Six Sigma, Lean etc

Desirable

  • Managing Successful Programs or equivalent
  • Coaching qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Highly specialist knowledge and experience of the IQIPS physiological service accreditation process.
  • Extensive experience of service transformation, design and development.
  • Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve common goals
  • Experience of working in contentious situations facing challenges to organisational redesign and reluctance to change management.
  • Experience of putting into practice the strategy and associated plans for a specific change and/or programme of change.
  • A sound understanding of Healthcare Science services
  • Knowledge of quality management systems
  • Knowledge of the accreditation process
  • Excellent organisation and project management skills
  • Ability to work independently with very limited guidance and to tight deadlines.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication -- able to draft well written and reasoned outlined business cases.
  • Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with various stakeholders
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Strategic awareness -- able to align transformation programme to Trust objectives
  • Ability to analyse complex business processes, data and procedural issues and to provide creative solutions to problems as they arise.
  • Ability to identify and resolve resistance and blockages, using proven problem solving skills.
  • Able to evaluate situations and assimilate information quickly
  • Effective negotiation and influencing skills
  • Ability to be assertive when appropriate
  • Able to deal with emotionally difficult and challenging situations

Desirable

  • Experience in a challenging Programme Management Office (PMO) function.
  • Significant senior experience in project/programme management delivery with evidence of leading and managing improvement projects in the NHS and/or social care setting
  • Experience of delivering organisational change projects, directly or through the PMO
  • Knowledge of ISO 15189

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY


Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY


Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Hiring Manager

Jack Woolcomb

jack.woolcomb@nhs.net

01223638168

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

175-2526-TH1315

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY


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