Job summary
- Main area
- Education and Careers
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 095-6351285-TS
- Employer
- NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gail House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/07/2024
Employer heading
People and Culture Project Support Senior Officer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the Kent and Medway People Strategy 2023 – 2028 by providing project leadership to programmes of work which will make Kent and Medway a great place to work and learn.
You will plan, support, manage and coordinate workforce projects and related work packages using various change and project management techniques. The role will include working with key stakeholders across partner organisations to
You will play a key role in managing the reporting requirements of the relevant workstreams/work packages within the People Directorate, including reporting to external bodies such as NHS England.
Main duties of the job
The People and Culture Project Manager will be expected to:
- Support the planning and manage delivery of assigned workforce projects, working with key stakeholders across all partners in the ICS
- Develop, implement and maintain accurate project documentation and drive forward projects with support from programme managers
- Supporting the organisation and smooth running of systemwide meetings and stakeholder engagement (including workshops) by ensuring the right people are in the conversation, at the right time with the right information
- Ensure that project plan activities are completed by the responsible officers in line with due dates identified in the plan
- Undertake research in agreed areas to enable informed decisions
- Ensure risks and issues are identified and escalated to the appropriate senior leaders or oversight group responsible for the project
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a
range of specialties, functions and projects - Develop key performance indicators and benefits for relevant projects and ensure these are monitored on a monthly basis to provide assurance of project delivery
- Develop post project evaluation reports detailing lessons learnt and benefits realised
Working for our organisation
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
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Person specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Further training or significant experience in project management, or supporting workforce change management
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or workforce planning/workforce development/workforce resourcing
- Previous experience in similar role in health and care
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the impact of workforce projects and programmes
- Workforce development knowledge and experience
- Experience in communications and complex stakeholder management
- Strong Microsoft office skills including Outlook, Excel, Word and powerpoint
- Experience of drafting complex reports and presentations
- Experience of managing risks and issues, capturing actions and holding to account for delivery of agreed actions
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Able to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Clear communication skills - with excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills: capable of constructing and delivering clear information/ instructions to staff and service users
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines without supervision
- Good recognition of relative urgency and need to escalate appropriately.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Kiddie
- Job title
- Lead for Careers and Widening Participation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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