Job summary
Employer heading
Project Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Work collaboratively with key stakeholders internally and externally to develop policy to meet the needs of the organisation and drive early diagnosis outcomes.
Deliver an effective alliance support function, for agreed programmes of early diagnosis.
Have excellent communication skills and be able to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships.
Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively, be calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines.
Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally
Main duties of the job
You will support the Cancer Alliance Director and their team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
- Manage the Team’s business support function, including developing and managing the team’s business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management
- Liaise with appropriate functions within the Cluster and the Sector
- Manage all corporate business returns, including planning and workforce returns
- Develop and implement a content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate and the wider NHS organisation
- Take a lead in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Team
- Oversight and management of all aspects of the Team budgets
Previous applicants need not apply
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.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ian Vousden
- Job title
- Cancer Alliance Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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