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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Contact
- Address
- Wellington House
- 133-155 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8UG
- Contact Number
- 0300 330 1369
Project Manager - Clinical and Quality
Closed for applications on: 12-Aug-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Aug-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wellington House
- Address
- 133-155 Waterloo Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 8UG
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing and Quality, Covid programme
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
The South East Covid Vaccination Team manages, co-ordinates and oversees the delivery of the regional Covid vaccination programme, working collaboratively with ICBs to ensure maximum levels of vaccination uptake and coverage across the regional population. The team work to ensure equalities remain at the heart of delivery, initiatives are quality and population focused, and decisions are data driven.
As a Project Manager within the Clinical & Quality team, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team in delivering safe, effective and evidence-based services and supporting managers and staff across the South East Covid Vaccination Team to run a high performing vaccination service.
The post holder will work alongside and support the Head of Nursing, Clinical and Quality within the Covid team to ensure that the work of the clinical team is planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery. The post is an opportunity to gain exposure to working at regional level, building relationships and working collaboratively with ICB colleagues to support and develop high quality clinical pathways, quality assurance systems and associated quality improvements.
Advert
The successful post holder will be a registered nurse with a clinical and operational background and project management experience. They must have a broad understanding of clinical quality, safety and patient experience and be passionate about influencing quality improvement and clinical outcomes.
We are looking for applicants with a range of clinical, quality and project experience, which enables them to support and achieve the main responsibilities of the role:
- To manage clinical Incidents on behalf of the Covid programme, working in partnership to achieve and manage these effectively.
- Work collaboratively to ensure incidents are investigated effectively, lessons learned captured and shared appropriately.
- To produce the monthly quality and safety report, identifying key incident themes, emerging risks/issues and that mitigation and lessons learned are captured and effectively embedded.
- To support the clinical cell team to manage quality improvement work related to clinical aspects of the programme.
- To support the resolution of covid vaccination clinical and quality issues, raised by ICBs, escalating key areas of concerns and updating the clinical risk register and supporting mitigation as appropriate.
- Play an active role in clinical team meetings, updating on your portfolio of work and contributing to the smooth running of the clinical and programme strategy.
- Work collaboratively across the wider programme team.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
- To manage clinical Incidents on behalf of the Covid programme, working in partnership with the Head of Nursing, Clinical and Quality, ICB Immunisation Teams, Regional Operations Centre (ROC) and wider programme team colleagues, to achieve this effectively and increasingly align to BAU process.
- Whilst managing incidents work collaboratively to ensure they are investigated effectively, that the level of harm and type of incident is identified, lessons learned captured and the incident subsequently closed, feeding back to ICB/other relevant colleagues.
- To produce the monthly quality and safety report, identifying key incident themes, emerging risks/issues and that mitigation and lessons learned are captured and effectively embedded.
- To support the clinical cell team to manage quality improvement work related to clinical aspects of the programme.
- To support the resolution of covid vaccination clinical and quality issues, raised by ICBs, escalating key areas of concerns to the clinical lead and updating the clinical risk register and supporting mitigation as appropriate.
- Play an active role in clinical team meetings, updating on your portfolio of work and contributing to the smooth running of the clinical and programme strategy.
- Work collaboratively across the wider programme team facilitating and supporting delivery of the clinical, quality and improvement priorities as directed.
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Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. Whilst we appreciate that you may have had support with your application (e.g., using AI technology or guidance from a trusted individual), it’s important that the information contained within your application reflects your own knowledge, skill, and experience and we trust that you apply on that basis.
If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
To comply with the HM Government Functional Standard GovS 007, and specifically the Personnel Security Standards 2024, individuals employed or contracted by NHS England may be required to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standards check, dependent on the role.
The NHS Business Services Authority is responsible for the processing of your application; a privacy notice is attached to advise you on how we will process your personal data.
If you have applied via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred third-party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails sent to us via NHS Jobs. If you have a query relating to your application, please contact the recruitment team on [email protected] or 0300 330 1369. You can view our Privacy Notice here.
NHS England
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- To manage clinical Incidents on behalf of the Covid programme, working in partnership with the Head of Nursing, Clinical and Quality
- Ability to support the clinical cell team to manage quality improvement work related to clinical aspects of the programme
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- To produce the monthly quality and safety report, identifying key incident themes, emerging risks/issues and that mitigation and lessons learned are captured and effectively embedded.
- Experience working collaboratively across the wider programme team facilitating and supporting delivery of the clinical, quality and improvement priorities as directed.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of public sector
Documents
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 488.6KB)
- Occupational Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 69.8KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helene Anderson
- Job title
- Head of nursing, Clinical and Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07939088190
- Additional information
9-5 pm Monday-Friday
Not available between 22/7 - 30/7 , but if candidates e mail i will respond on my return.
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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