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Job summary

Main area
Corporate
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Secondment: 9 months (9 months minimum term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (mon- friday 4day week)
Job ref
230-36782466-CORP-A
Employer
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Town
Nuneaton
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/07/2024 23:59

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IQUIPS Accreditation Project Manager

Band 7

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour aren’t as likely to apply unless they meet every qualification of non specialist roles.

We’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and meet our values, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the Job Description or Person Specification– apply anyway or email the Recruiting Manager to discuss the role further 

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Job overview

Job Title - IQUIPS Accreditation Project Manager

Hours per week - 37.5

Permanent/Fixed Term - Secondment 9 Months 

Salary - £43,742-£50,056  Per Annum 

Closing Date: 26th July 2024

Interview Date:  TBC

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly. We would like to thank previous applicants for their interest but they need not apply.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day. 

Careers at George Eliot – ‘Where you make a difference'

Main duties of the job

The Project Manager will work as part of a dynamic team to deliver quality improvement and service delivery projects supporting clinical, operational and corporate managers within the GEH. The post holder will be expected to lead and deliver the Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) scheme and support the Physiological sciences clinical team to achieve IQUIPS accreditation. This will involve the production of plans and documentation through the project lifecycle, ensuring all identified objectives are met, risks are managed, and benefits released from the implementation of new clinical models / pathways and ways of working.

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care’ takes centre stage.  An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do.  Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

  Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

 Challenge but support

 Expect respect and dignity

 Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work within the Physiological Sciences services providing support to the clinical team through the IQUIPS accreditation process. Your work will be directly supporting need of improving in clinical service delivery. Your work will involve a wide range of diversity from IT to direct patient care initiatives, working with multi-disciplinary teams from range of backgrounds. You will be part of a team and organisation with a continuous improvement and learning culture and will get a great grounding in range of projects within the hospital and as well as linking in with wider partners, stakeholders and patient & public. 

There will be opportunities to develop and apply your project organisational and project support skills to deliver improvement and build your knowledge of improvement methodologies. 

 

The post holders’ key responsibilities are to: 

 

To lead on the delivery of assigned improvement programme areas, working alongside clinical and managerial colleagues to secure successful outcomes that positively impact on patients / service users' safety and quality. 

To plan and organise activities to support the strategic direction of their portfolio of projects and programmes within the GEH improvement programmes to improve services for our population, ensuring service improvements are achievable and sustainable with benefits realisation plans to support the projects. 

To coordinate the development of new pathways, processes, protocols and policies to support change management work arising within the programme areas. 

To proactively monitor progress, issues and risks in projects for which the post holder is lead, taking corrective and mitigating action where necessary, in line with PMO governance. 

Produce routine and ad hoc reports as required to support communication of progress, highlight issues and risks, and generally promote the work of the Programme in delivering significant projects. 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Demonstrable experience of developing Plans and implementing new ways of working and facilitate collaborative working.
  • • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
  • • Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects and delivering change in complex and challenging environments
  • • Knowledge of the NHS, including structures, current policy and decision-making, and wider strategic and political issues
  • • Previous experience of working in fast-paced and rapidly changing project environment
  • • Experience of working across organisational boundaries with a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians
  • • Experienced as working as part of a team, and ability to work well with others to achieve joint objectives
  • • Experience of and ability to build & maintain relationships with staff and stakeholders within a challenging environment
  • • Evidence of service development or practice innovation
  • • Knowledge of NHS information sources to underpin analysis
  • • Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 and MSP
  • • Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
Desirable criteria
  • • Knowledge and experience of delivering change management and transformation within the NHS, or public sector.
  • • Experience working as a project manager: including change management and workforce/ service re-design, acquired through training and experience to post-degree level or equivalent.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Educated to post-degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
  • • Evidence of PRINCE 2 / MSP or equivalent level of experience and knowledge, including formal project management tools and experience of project reporting.
Desirable criteria
  • • Further training or significant experience in project management or supporting change management processes.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to apply project management discipline and processes to a programme of projects to maximise delivery.
  • • Strong interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
  • • Ability to communicate complex information to a wide audience, including at relevant board meetings
  • • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • • Ability to collect, collate, interpret and present complex data, including using Excel
  • • Excellent attention to detail
  • • Able to manage conflict effectively
  • • Fast-thinking and resourceful individual with an ability to balance competing priorities in a high pressure environment
  • • Able to plan and prioritise own caseload using time management skills and adapt to unpredictable work patterns.
  • • Have the ability to analyse and develop a range of options
  • • Have the ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joanna Purvis
Job title
Physiological Sciences service manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02476865128
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