Project Officer, Oliver McGowan inManchester inManchester PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
Band 5
NHS
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Opportunity to support a high-profile program focused on improving healthcare and well-being in Greater Manchester, contributing to impactful community initiatives.
Involvement in a diverse range of projects, allowing for skill development in project management, stakeholder engagement, and communication.
Flexibility to work in a hybrid setting, balancing remote work and in-person responsibilities, accommodating various work styles and preferences.
Collaboration with a wide variety of partner organizations, enhancing networking opportunities and fostering professional relationships across sectors.
Engagement in a supportive organizational culture that prioritizes the NHS People Promise, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workforce.
Development of administrative, organizational, and logistical skills through coordinating training sessions, meetings, and events, which are essential for career advancement.
The Project Officer will support the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme within the People and Culture Function at Greater Manchester Police. Key responsibilities include coordinating administrative services, organizing meetings with stakeholders, managing training course bookings, and maintaining documentation related to courses and events. The role requires collaboration with the OD and Culture team and involves both hybrid work and occasional travel within Greater Manchester.
Main Duties:
- Support multiple projects under the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Organize training arrangements, monitor course details, and manage delegate lists.
- Assist in event coordination, both virtual and in-person, and support change management efforts.
- Ensure effective communication and planning across stakeholder groups.
- Produce presentations and maintain databases using appropriate technology.
Requirements:
- Strong communication skills to manage relationships and respond to complex queries.
- Ability to coordinate logistics for meetings and events.
- Flexibility to cover roles and responsibilities as needed within the team.
Employment Details:
- Fixed-term, 17-month contract.
- Full-time with flexible, hybrid working options.
- Salary range: £29,970 to £36,483 per annum.
The role supports NHS Greater Manchester's objectives and helps address workforce inequalities while fostering a diverse and effective work environment.
Job Summary
As a member of the People and Culture Function and OD and Culture team, the post holder will play a key role in providing project support for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme which sits withing the Learning and Development Team.
You will provide and coordinate administrative services; including the co-ordination of meetings with internal and external stakeholders undertaking appropriate preparation and follow-up action as required.
You will also support the team with the management booking administration for training courses, including but not limited to finance, business continuity, workforce, communications and engagement, etc., gathering information and undertaking enquires as and when is necessary for colleagues.
You will work as part of the OD and Culture team, including on-leave cross-cover.
You will work on a hybrid basis including office-based and will involve some travel within Greater Manchester to support the programme manager The post holder will be expected to work flexibly and support other organisational priorities as necessary.
It is envisaged that most of the services will be provided via agile working. On occasion, there may be a need for in-person support at venues across GM to support deliverables of the OMMT programme. This will be agreed as far in advance as possible.
Main duties of the job
Provide support for several projects across the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme. Including creating, maintaining and developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, organising training dates and arrangements and eligibility etc.
Maintaining concise details of courses including monitoring cancellation dates, delegate lists and communication of courses.
Assist with co-ordinating resources effectively, ensure documentation is prepared and shared in accordance with project deadlines.
Delivery of a number of events and activities, both virtual and face to face.
You will ensure that change management is supported effectively by working with relevant teams and key stakeholders within the business.
Role
You will play a key role supporting high profile programmes support the achievement of NHS Greater Manchester objectives. This includes work relating to:
Ensuring the preparedness of all partners and organisations, including providers, local authorities, VCSE, Primary Care and delivery organisations to effectively deliver the projects and initiatives.
Support the communications and planning activities across stakeholder groups to ensure effective and impactful delivery of programmes.
The production of presentations, setting up and maintaining various databases within deadlines, using appropriate office technology and software
Managing a wide range of meeting bookings and preparation including providing full logistical support for events and workshops
About Us
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Our NHS People Promise
Our NHS People Promise -the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, includinga wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.
Date posted
25 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 a year pa
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
17 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
896-P&C-GM10A
Job locations
Tootal Building
56 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 6EU
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders from a wide variety of partner organisations, ensuring clear and effective channels of communication. Assist with coordinating an effective change control process, consulting with key stakeholders as necessary.
Provide and receive complex sensitive information including highlighting difficult and controversial issues to Programme Management.
Liaise with a wide range of teams to ensure a strategic and tactical approach to the programme and ICS workforce arrangements is taken.
Coordinate high levels of engagement with a wide range of partner organisations from across the GM networks to ensure projects are effectively implemented.
Work with provider organisations to ensure effective connectivity with their developing provider arrangements
Work as part of the wider Partnership team and stakeholders to further our organisational goals.
Working with other administrators / PAs to provide an effective network of communication including dealing with visitors to the base and being flexible to cover other administrators general duties on the base;
Working with all team members in the collection of information for performance reporting on relevant team projects.
Act as a first point of contact for area of work for a wide range of stakeholders, dealing and responding effectively with complex queries and passing on relevant information to appropriate team members sensitively and autonomously
Communicating and engaging with external and internal stakeholders which may require negotiation skills and understanding the needs/requirements of other organisations, senior professionals and individuals;
Ensuring all urgent and/or confidential
As a member of the People and Culture Function and OD and Culture team, the post holder will play a key role in providing project support for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme which sits withing the Learning and Development Team.
You will provide and coordinate administrative services; including the co-ordination of meetings with internal and external stakeholders undertaking appropriate preparation and follow-up action as required.
You will also support the team with the management booking administration for training courses, including but not limited to finance, business continuity, workforce, communications and engagement, etc., gathering information and undertaking enquires as and when is necessary for colleagues.
You will work as part of the OD and Culture team, including on-leave cross-cover.
You will work on a hybrid basis including office-based and will involve some travel within Greater Manchester to support the programme manager The post holder will be expected to work flexibly and support other organisational priorities as necessary.
It is envisaged that most of the services will be provided via agile working. On occasion, there may be a need for in-person support at venues across GM to support deliverables of the OMMT programme. This will be agreed as far in advance as possible.
Main duties of the job
Provide support for several projects across the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training programme. Including creating, maintaining and developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, organising training dates and arrangements and eligibility etc.
Maintaining concise details of courses including monitoring cancellation dates, delegate lists and communication of courses.
Assist with co-ordinating resources effectively, ensure documentation is prepared and shared in accordance with project deadlines.
Delivery of a number of events and activities, both virtual and face to face.
You will ensure that change management is supported effectively by working with relevant teams and key stakeholders within the business.
Role
You will play a key role supporting high profile programmes support the achievement of NHS Greater Manchester objectives. This includes work relating to:
Ensuring the preparedness of all partners and organisations, including providers, local authorities, VCSE, Primary Care and delivery organisations to effectively deliver the projects and initiatives.
Support the communications and planning activities across stakeholder groups to ensure effective and impactful delivery of programmes.
The production of presentations, setting up and maintaining various databases within deadlines, using appropriate office technology and software
Managing a wide range of meeting bookings and preparation including providing full logistical support for events and workshops
About Us
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Our NHS People Promise
Our NHS People Promise -the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, includinga wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.
Date posted
25 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 a year pa
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
17 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
Reference number
896-P&C-GM10A
Job locations
Tootal Building
56 Oxford Street
Manchester
M1 6EU
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders from a wide variety of partner organisations, ensuring clear and effective channels of communication. Assist with coordinating an effective change control process, consulting with key stakeholders as necessary.
Provide and receive complex sensitive information including highlighting difficult and controversial issues to Programme Management.
Liaise with a wide range of teams to ensure a strategic and tactical approach to the programme and ICS workforce arrangements is taken.
Coordinate high levels of engagement with a wide range of partner organisations from across the GM networks to ensure projects are effectively implemented.
Work with provider organisations to ensure effective connectivity with their developing provider arrangements
Work as part of the wider Partnership team and stakeholders to further our organisational goals.
Working with other administrators / PAs to provide an effective network of communication including dealing with visitors to the base and being flexible to cover other administrators general duties on the base;
Working with all team members in the collection of information for performance reporting on relevant team projects.
Act as a first point of contact for area of work for a wide range of stakeholders, dealing and responding effectively with complex queries and passing on relevant information to appropriate team members sensitively and autonomously
Communicating and engaging with external and internal stakeholders which may require negotiation skills and understanding the needs/requirements of other organisations, senior professionals and individuals;
Ensuring all urgent and/or confidential
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To work as a Project Officer for the Oliver McGowan Project, or in a similar role focused on health and social care services in the UK, you will typically need a combination of technical, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Here are some key skills and qualifications that may be beneficial:
Essential Skills:
1. Project Management Skills:
- Ability to plan, execute, and oversee projects from inception to completion.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
2. Communication Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for stakeholder engagement and reporting.
- Ability to present information clearly and concisely to different audiences.
3. Interpersonal Skills:
- Ability to work collaboratively with various teams and stakeholders, including health and social care professionals and service users.
- Empathy and understanding of the challenges faced by individuals with learning disabilities.
4. Organizational Skills:
- Strong planning and time management skills to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
- Attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
5. Research and Analytical Skills:
- Ability to gather and analyze data to inform decision-making and project direction.
- Skills in evaluation and assessment to measure project effectiveness and impact.
6. Budget Management:
- Understanding of budget creation, monitoring, and financial reporting to ensure projects are delivered within budget.
7. Knowledge of Health and Social Care Policy:
- Familiarity with current policies, frameworks, and best practices in health and social care specific to your area of focus.
8. Problem-Solving Skills:
- Ability to identify issues and develop innovative solutions.
Qualifications:
- Education: A degree in a relevant field such as health and social care, project management, or public health may be beneficial.
- Relevant Experience: Previous experience in project management, health, or social care settings is often required.
- Professional Development: Certifications in project management or related areas can be advantageous.
Additional Considerations:
- Commitment to Advocacy: A strong commitment to advocacy for marginalized groups, particularly those with learning disabilities, will be important in this role.
- Understanding of Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards: Knowledge of ethical practices in health and social care.
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