Project Officer
Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!
Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Supportive team environment
- Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job overview
Join Our Team and Make a Difference! Are you passionate about transforming cancer care and improving patient outcomes?The Northern Cancer Alliance is looking for a dynamic and dedicated Lung Cancer Screening Project Officer to support our Lung Cancer Screening Programme and Lung Cancer Strategy across the Northeast and North Cumbria. This is a unique opportunity to work with a collaborative team committed to improving early diagnosis of Lung Cancer, reducing health inequalities, reducing treatment variation and enhancing patient experience.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- To undertake specific projects within the lung cancer screening programme, and lung cancer strategy, focused on improving early diagnosis, quality and service improvement.
- Ensure that service development and work plans are aligned with the Alliance Cancer work plan.
- Monitor project progress and ensure high-quality service delivery.
- Champion patient and public involvement in projects, with a focus on reducing health inequalities.
- Foster partnerships and cross-boundary working to achieve project objectives.
Working for our organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas.These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Who we are looking for:
- Significant experience in project management
- Experience in communication and relationship-building.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills.
- Please see person specification for essential criteria
Why Join Us? At the Northern Cancer Alliance, we are dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation in cancer care. Join us in our mission to deliver exceptional services and make a real difference in the lives of patients and their families.
Apply Now! If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and contribute to the future of cancer care, we want to hear from you. Apply today and be part of a team that values diversity, collaboration, and excellence.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Word processing and Excel qualifications (intermediate level), or equivalent experience.
- Word processing and Excel qualifications (advanced level), or equivalent experience
- Further training / post graduate or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- NHS contracting, commissioning and performance management experience.
- Experience of service change/redesign and success at delivering programmes of change
- Experience in contract management, including performance management and quality assurance
- Knowledge/ experience of standard NHS contracts, terms and conditions, schedules and contract levers
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector
- Knowledge of health and social care issues
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.