Job summary
Working Full Time: 37.5 Hours Per Week
Are you ready for an exciting and challenging opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare delivery at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust?
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join the Countess of Chester Hospital team in this role. You will work closely with the Head of Operations for Cancer and Outpatients, as well as wider Divisional teams and play a key role in the transformation of the current Cancer services at the Trust.
You will lead on the scoping of current Cancer services across COCH, and will work with various key stakeholders to transform and develop services for the future. You will also engage with service users in the design and delivery of these services.
Main duties of the job
- Opportunity to review and scope out the current Cancer service across COCH.
- Support the Diagnostics and Clinical Support Services Division to deliver operational transformation in Cancer services.
- Opportunity to work autonomously but supported by a multi-disciplinary team.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costswill be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costswill be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Knowledge of the national cancer strategy/agenda/work programme
- Evidence of service development/ improvement initiatives and change in practice
- Understanding of the function of Cancer Services
- Strong project management experience in healthcare
Desirable
- Degree at master's level
- Management qualification and/or experience
- Prince 2/equivalent project management qualification
- Sound knowledge and experience of lean methodology
- Project management experience specifically within cancer in the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Good people management skills
- Advanced IT skills used for developing practice e.g., project management
- Giving presentations to inform and influence practice
- Ability to lead meetings and discussions with teams across the health community
- Ability to prioritise own work, across the Trust, liaising with other staff & teams
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Knowledge of the national cancer strategy/agenda/work programme
- Evidence of service development/ improvement initiatives and change in practice
- Understanding of the function of Cancer Services
- Strong project management experience in healthcare
Desirable
- Degree at master's level
- Management qualification and/or experience
- Prince 2/equivalent project management qualification
- Sound knowledge and experience of lean methodology
- Project management experience specifically within cancer in the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Good people management skills
- Advanced IT skills used for developing practice e.g., project management
- Giving presentations to inform and influence practice
- Ability to lead meetings and discussions with teams across the health community
- Ability to prioritise own work, across the Trust, liaising with other staff & teams
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.
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.
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).
