Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed term until 31.3.2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1523
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Charlotte's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/08/2024
Employer heading
Project Support Officer
Band 4
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The NW London Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) has an ambitious programme of maternity transformation, to implement the recommendations of The National Maternity Review (Better Births 2016), the NHS Long Term Plan (NHSE 2019) and recent recommendations from the Ockenden Report (DHSC 2022).
Within the LMNS, the NW Maternal Medicine Network (MMN) aims to provide equitable pre-pregnancy, antenatal and postnatal care for all people who have significant medical problems that pre-date or arise during pregnancy or after birth. The other Networks overseen by the LMNS are Pre-term Birth and Fetal Medicine, whose remit is to improve outcomes for babies born early and/or who require specialist input during pregnancy.
The Networks serve the maternity units at Imperial College Healthcare Trust, The Hillingdon Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust and London North West University Healthcare Trust.
As the Project Support Officer you will provide administrative and secretarial support within small leadership teams. You will work closely with a variety of clinicians across the sector organising and co-ordinating Network meetings and educational events. You will also be helping the Networks to collate data and communicate with service users to gather feedback on their experience of care.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a highly efficient, professional and comprehensive administrative and secretarial service to the NWL Maternity Networks (including the Maternal Medicine Network). The post holder will support the teams with management of established and new projects/services, gathering information and undertaking enquiries as and when required for the team and the Networks.
- The post holder will be expected to manage and prioritise their workload, liaising closely with the Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine and other members of the Networks’ leadership teams.
- Be proactive and use initiative and judgement to deal with and prioritise issues that arise throughout the working week.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- A-Levels / relevant vocational qualification or equivalent (for example, NVQ Level 3)
SKILLS/ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Good standard of IT Skills, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Be able to work under own initiative
- Take a proactive approach to work
- Able to work with minimal supervision, on own initiative.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding and knowledge of the Trust and organisation
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in an office administrative environment.
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS / healthcare work experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Ghalustians
- Job title
- Lead Midwife Maternal Medicine Network
- Email address
- [email protected]
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