North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
An exciting fixed term/secondment opportunity has arisen within the Transformation Team for a Band 5 Project Support Manager.
You will assist and support a number of development and evaluation transformation projects across the Trust, and North Staffordshire aligned to the overarching Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme.
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata, part time 22.5 hours per week.
You will be based in the Transformation team, but will work closely with the R&D Lead in the R&D team to develop, undertake, and write up evaluations.
Main duties of the job
The Project Support Manager will take on a vital role in supporting evaluation projects across North Staffordshire. This will entail supporting projects across the region, arranging and coordinating interviews, data collection, report writing, and communication with various organisations.
This role will take responsibility for data collection reports and interviews including responding to evaluation requirements, working on several evaluation methods.
This post will demand high levels of organisational skills, excellent time management, and the confidence to take responsibility for tasks and projects associated with this service. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal will be essential.
About us
As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting role which will provide increased support for evaluation and development activity. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to (full Job Description and Person Specification available):
* Supporting the development of a robust evaluation plan, including the preparation of literature, data scoping, and benchmarking;
* Ensure active engagement and ownership of key stakeholders in each task or project;
* Ensure appropriate data collection systems are in place to facilitate the analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information relevant to the project completing progress reports as required;
* Establish and agree on SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound) objectives with the Project and R&D Lead order to ensure first time, on-time delivery of projects;
* Be responsible for the day to day planning and delivery of evaluation tasks under the supervision of the R&D Lead;
* Identify, involve, and incorporate the feedback and views and needs of clients, the public, and stakeholders, where appropriate, in all stages of each project.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent project management experience
* Post graduate education or equivalent experience in an area relevant to project management
Experience
* Experience of Project Management
* Significant experience of NHS/Local authority organisation project management
Skills
* Able to generate own correspondence and reports
* Knowledge and experience of using Microsoft project/office/ Adobe tools
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.
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