SWAG Cancer Alliance Project Support Coordinator

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Job overview

The role is a great opportunity for someone who has existing expertise in this field and wishes to be involved in supporting and sustaining the cancer workforce to enhance the experience of people with cancer.

Interviews for this role will take place in person on Thursday 30^th January in Bristol

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for enabling the smooth running of a diverse range of projects/programmes by supporting Project/Programme Lead through the operation of project management process, and the co-ordination of business management actions and activities on their behalf.

You will have a passion for learning, and proven project management skills. A genuine interest in helping others develop, and working collaboratively with others in the team and wider organisations is vital.

Working for our organisation

In other words, creating a culture and systems which empowers people to do the right thing.

Therefore, this is a unique and exciting role for the next step in your career!

You will be part of a dynamic team to drive forward the adoption of large scale clinical transformation and change to improve outcomes for patients and enable successful delivery of the ambitions of the Long-Term Plan for Cancer.

We offer those joining us a new challenge in a fast pace and forward-thinking innovation and improvement environment. If you are passionate about making a difference to cancer care as our team is, this is the role for you. You will be supported by a robust orientation and structured development pathway.

SWAG CA is hosted by North Bristol NHS Trust for the purposes of formal employment and the provision of back-office support to the Cancer Alliance.

The post holder will be required to travel across the South West.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the planning and delivery of the SWAG Workforce Strategy and Cancer and Domestic Abuse (DA) Workforce Training project, working with the SWAG ACCEND Lead and DA Trainer and other key stakeholders across the programme area to ensure success.
• Responsible for developing and managing project tracking, control and reporting arrangements ensuring that project/programmes’ objectives can be achieved.
• Responsible for organising key project meeting, engagement and workshop sessions, booking venues, sending invites, taking minutes.
• Attending and/or facilitating meetings where agreed and present on progress, ensuring that all actions are logged and followed up as required.
• Manage programme schedule and resource dependencies and conflict between initiatives.

Support the Project/Programme lead to ensure effective project/programme(s) communications plans are developed and delivered.

Promote effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally by acting as the local point for project/programme responses to requests for information and assisting with the maintenance of the stakeholder log.

Person specification

Essential

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in supporting programmes/projects.
• Further training in recognised project management/service improvement qualification or experience of project management/service improvement acquired through at least 2 years of experience.
• Proven experience of project management, key stakeholder engagement and communications across organisational boundaries.
• Proven experience of maintaining project systems, including updating software, accessing and managing content and retrieving data.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately from or diverse audiences.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.

• Knowledge and proven track record of delivery / facilitation of learning and development programmes across clinical and non-clinical teams and organisational boundaries.

If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.