Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Alliance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 225-WMCA-6555486
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stephenson Street
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2024 23:59
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PMO Officer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
A development opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a strong administrative background in the NHS and ideally within cancer services. The PMO Officer post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance works with commissioners and providers to improve the delivery of cancer services across the West Midlands and to ensure patients get the highest standard of care. We bring together clinical and managerial leaders from different hospital trusts and other health and social care organisations across the West Midlands, to transform the diagnosis, treatment and care for cancer patients in our local area.
We are seeking to appoint a Band 6 PMO Officer to work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the West Midlands with project and business support in complex Cancer pathways of care. The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service developments and is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
• Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
• Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
• Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers.
• Be a key member of the team and support a number of business functions such as recruitment and procurement within the team in addition to providing support to the Cancer Transformation Programme.
• Manage the business support function within the team and directly line manage business support staff.
• Receive, log and keep track of Bids relating to transformation funding and ensure that successful bids are monitored to ensure delivery of expected outcomes.
Working for our organisation
There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.
Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
• Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers.
• Be a key member of the team and support a number of business functions such as recruitment and procurement within the team in addition to providing support to the Cancer Transformation Programme.
• Manage the business support function within the team and directly line manage the business support staff.
• Receive, log and keep track of Bids relating to transformation funding and ensure that successful bids are monitored to ensure delivery of expected outcomes.
Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
Contribute to the information management of performance, taking a lead for specific projects.
Provide coordination of and participate in relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.
Work with members of the team and key stakeholder to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
• Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
• Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers, as directed by Manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Workforce development knowledge and experience and direct line management experience.
- Evidence of success in effective project and programme management.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management. Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jillian Guild
- Job title
- Associate Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07385223431
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