Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Quality, Covid programme
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-SE-CVT-6451815-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Project Manager - Clinical and Quality
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
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.
Main duties of the job
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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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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
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.
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