Employer: NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Employer type: NHS
Site: 3rd Floor, Manchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing date: 24/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 13/03/2025
NHS AfC: Band 5
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome everyone from all backgrounds to apply so we can continue to create a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve.
If you are suitably qualified and have an interest in remote, hybrid, full-time, or part-time working, we encourage you to get in touch as we are happy to discuss potential flexible working opportunities.
We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London. Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.
Job overview
As a coordinator within the Centre for Guidelines, you will play a key role in the efficient and effective organisation of the programme to enable the development of guidelines, quality standards, and indicators. You will work closely with colleagues from across the Centre to plan, coordinate, and monitor the progress of individual products and projects, ensuring consistency across the work programme. You will also coordinate and support a variety of activities relating to guideline, quality standard and indicator development, such as the consultation processes of the guidelines programme, collating consultation responses, and maintaining an effective record of respondents.
Main duties of the job
* Acting as a contact point for internal teams and external organisations on matters relating to the guidance programmes.
* Maintaining effective, sensitive, and co-operative working relationships with external stakeholders and staff members within NICE.
* Responding to written and verbal enquiries from a range of external organisations, ensuring these are handled appropriately and forwarded as necessary to the appropriate person.
* Providing advice and guidance to internal teams and external organisations on issues relating to the work of the Centre.
* Developing and maintaining databases and other records systems.
* Providing efficient and effective administrative support, including preparing correspondence and papers, collating, copying, and distributing papers, managing diaries, and taking minutes.
* Providing project management support for the programme as appropriate and developing and operating systems for managing projects, recording activities, and tracking progress.
* Contributing to project planning and coordination and liaising with team members, other staff within NICE, and external organisations to ensure that deadlines are met.
* Working with team members to identify and manage risk and escalating as required.
* Checking that the relevant paperwork for projects has been received, chasing for contributions as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
The Centre for Guidelines develops guidance on the promotion of good health and social care and the prevention of ill health, the appropriate treatment and care for people with specific diseases and conditions, and service delivery. The guidance is used by those working in the NHS, local government, social care, and patients and their families. The NICE guidelines programme is one of the largest in the world, having produced more than 300 guidelines since it was established in 2001.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
We offer a range of benefits including:
* NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.
* We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work-life balance including work from home, compressed hours, and flexi start/finish times.
* Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants, and more.
* Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays.
* Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
If you feel this is the type of environment you will enjoy working in, then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Relevant first degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development in a relevant field.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience in coordinating and managing multiple projects, including handling multiple ongoing priorities or tasks.
Experience
* Proven experience in creating, implementing, and maintaining systems or administrative procedures. This may include IT systems, manual processes, or other methods for organising work efficiently.
Experience
* Experience of working collaboratively with a diverse range of individuals or organisations, ideally in a health-related setting.
Skills/Knowledge
* Ability to communicate clearly and adapt appropriately to different audiences, both within and outside the organisation. This includes building positive relationships and conveying information effectively through verbal, written, or digital means.
Skills/Knowledge
* Ability to analyse complex information or large volumes of data and present key points clearly and accurately in both verbal and written formats, tailored to the audience.
Skills/Knowledge
* Proficiency in using relevant software tools or packages, such as those for editing and uploading web content or managing complex data.
Important: Due to NICE’s use of anonymised recruitment practices, we ask all candidates not to include any personal details within their application. Please ensure you provide sufficient detail in the supporting information section to allow our team to make an informed judgement about your suitability for this role at this stage. CVs will not be considered.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please note that applications may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.
Please contact Careers@nice.org.uk if you wish to discuss any additional needs or reasonable adjustments which may support you with your application and/or at interview.
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