Job summary
An exciting opportunity have arisen within the Service Improvement Team for a Project Officer who will be responsible for the management and successful delivery of projects within the programme portfolio to the required quality and standard.
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Main duties of the job
The Project Officer will actively assist the management of the full project life cycle with a significant focus on change management and service modernisation. You will be educated to post graduate degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience.
About us
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospitalo Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)o Newcastle Dental Hospitalo Newcastle Fertility Centreo Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbriao Northern Genetics Serviceo Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for the management and successful delivery of projects within the programme portfolio to the required quality and standard.
- Oversee all aspects of project management, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure of projects within the portfolio
- Provide project management skills on a range of projects across the organisation, which include the Trusts strategic priorities
- Acts as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
- Identify potential risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies to ensure projects remain within timescales
- Lead, motivate and develop the project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive working environment
- Analyse data to understand trends and potential opportunities
- Project planning skills to display and track progress
- Maintaining and updating project reports and RAID logs as part of governance processes
- Harnessing current ways of working, particularly pertaining to a standardised way of mobilising, monitoring and delivering NuTH projects
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, by evaluating ways of working, outcomes, and identifying lessons learnt to implement improvements
- Provide support and guidance within a line management capacity and within the wider team
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for the management and successful delivery of projects within the programme portfolio to the required quality and standard.
- Oversee all aspects of project management, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure of projects within the portfolio
- Provide project management skills on a range of projects across the organisation, which include the Trusts strategic priorities
- Acts as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
- Identify potential risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies to ensure projects remain within timescales
- Lead, motivate and develop the project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive working environment
- Analyse data to understand trends and potential opportunities
- Project planning skills to display and track progress
- Maintaining and updating project reports and RAID logs as part of governance processes
- Harnessing current ways of working, particularly pertaining to a standardised way of mobilising, monitoring and delivering NuTH projects
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, by evaluating ways of working, outcomes, and identifying lessons learnt to implement improvements
- Provide support and guidance within a line management capacity and within the wider team
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2) or ability to demonstrate experience and success of delivering projects
Desirable
- PRINCE 2 practitioner
- Quality/ Service Improvement
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Have experience of managing multiple projects
- Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
- Experience of working with clinicians
- Experience of leading a team of diverse individuals to deliver projects to meet aims and objectives
- Experience of management project and having successful delivered projects. Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project
Desirable
- Have a good understanding of health and social care policy
- Have experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret information and to present information to diverse groups
- Manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to check own and others work to ensure all products are of a high quality
- Be competent with the Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic individual both flexible and professional in their approach
- Ability to balance, prioritise and progress multiple tasks
- High focus on customer service and user requirements
- Structured and methodical approach to complex tasks
- Ability to reconcile conflicting priorities
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines including being selfmotivated and organising workload
- Ability to demonstrate negotiation and persuasive skills
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2) or ability to demonstrate experience and success of delivering projects
Desirable
- PRINCE 2 practitioner
- Quality/ Service Improvement
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Have experience of managing multiple projects
- Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
- Experience of working with clinicians
- Experience of leading a team of diverse individuals to deliver projects to meet aims and objectives
- Experience of management project and having successful delivered projects. Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Project management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the project
Desirable
- Have a good understanding of health and social care policy
- Have experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret information and to present information to diverse groups
- Manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to check own and others work to ensure all products are of a high quality
- Be competent with the Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic individual both flexible and professional in their approach
- Ability to balance, prioritise and progress multiple tasks
- High focus on customer service and user requirements
- Structured and methodical approach to complex tasks
- Ability to reconcile conflicting priorities
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines including being selfmotivated and organising workload
- Ability to demonstrate negotiation and persuasive skills
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).
