Main area Project Management Grade Band 6 Contract Secondment: 12 months (until March 2026) Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Minimum 2 days on site in City and Hackney locations) Job ref 293-CSEP-0542
Site St Leonard's Hospital Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 pro rata p.a. incl. Salary period Yearly Closing 06/04/2025 23:59
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Job overview
An exciting and unique opportunity has opened up to provide coordination and delivery of the overall Neighbourhoods Programme. This work will specifically help in coordinating reporting of individually funded projects, assisting in communications for the overall programme and supporting the delivery of cross-cutting projects across the Neighbourhoods programme.
Neighbourhoods is an ambitious and transformational programme to re-organise how we deliver primary care, community health and social care services across City and Hackney. The intention is not to layer on additional services but instead to re-organise and support the development of existing service provision in a new model.
The Neighbourhoods Project Officer will support the programme team which needs to work with a wide range of stakeholders including primary care (through Primary Care Networks), community nursing, mental health, social work and voluntary sector services to deliver on specific Neighbourhood projects.
We are looking for a confident and enthusiastic team member with the ability to motivate and inspire confidence in others, develop effective working relationships and manage competing priorities in a challenging environment.
Main duties of the job
Project Management - lead on defined project deliverables, with the support from the Neighbourhood Team, for the overarching Workforce and OD Delivery Plan and Integrated Neighbourhood Team programmes of work.
Governance - ensure that sign off of projects and schemes within each programme area are within the organisational governance processes. This includes projects meet their key milestones, with milestones monitored and project slippages and highlighted with mitigating action taken.
Communication - lead on the delivery of the communication of key strategic objectives, to all stakeholders, to ensure the successful project deliverables are promoted and shared across City and Hackney.
Relationship Building -support the management of the complex relationships between individuals and organisations and respond appropriately to challenges as a result of this complexity, seeking support and guidance as required, particularly when dealing with senior stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to work list.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
* PRINCE 2 / MSP or evidence of equivalent level of experience and knowledge
Skills
* Ability to foster and maintain positive working relationships with a wide range of people at every level
* Ability to influence senior stakeholders
* Skilled in the use of a range of service improvement tools such as QI or other service improvement methodologies
Trust Values
* Demonstrated an understanding of the Trust Values
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of planning, implementing and evaluating communications aims aligned to corporate priorities
* Knowledge of NHS, especially Anticipatory Care and Community Navigation
* Reasonable project management experience, preferably in a health, social care or voluntary sector
* Experience of undertaking audit/evaluation work
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