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Job Reference
27515
Service
Urgent Care
Location
Agile working
Job Category
Service Manager
Salary/Hourly Rate
£40,057 - £45,839 (WTE)
Closing Date
31/05/2022
Brief Description

Project Manager – Conveyance Avoidance Service

Looking for your next challenge? We are recruiting for a project manager to support a collaborative mobilisation and delivery of a new Conveyance Avoidance Service.

What’s the role?

  • The aim of the project is to safely reduce the number of patients taken to hospital in an ambulance across Suffolk and North East Essex by providing on-scene paramedics a direct pathway to access a GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
  • Suffolk GP Federation, in collaboration with Practice Plus Group have been commissioned to deliver this service in partnership with the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals and West Suffolk Hospital.
  • The project manager will coordinate and engage all of these stakeholders in order to successfully deliver a reduction in conveyances to hospitals.
  • You’ll also be responsible for developing the policies and pathways, providing onsite support to the operational teams and provide training around the project.
  • It’s likely that there will be evening and weekend work.
  • Secondment opportunities will be considered.

You will be employed by Suffolk GP Federation CIC, a not-for-profit community interest company.

Hours

  • 30 hours per week, worked over a flexible pattern consisting of regular evening and weekends
  • Fixed term contract until March 2023, with the possibility of extension depending on funding

Is it for me?

We will make sure you are fully inducted in to our organisation.

  • You’d be suited to this role if you’ve had previous experience of providing project management and can evidence successful project delivery.
  • You’ll need to be proficient in project reporting and have experience of delivering against KPIs.
  • You’ll need to have excellent communication skills, being able to influence and engage with a range of stakeholders and different job roles and positions across organisations
  • Experience of managing your own portfolio of projects within a healthcare environment is desirable.

What we can offer you:

  • A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance
  • Agile working, enabling us to work from a variety of bases, interacting with your teams at the most appropriate location
  • Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard
  • A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
  • Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
  • A commitment to personal development, training and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Death in service cover
  • Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
  • 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service
  • Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street

Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Get in touch with our Urgent Care Operations Lead Katherine.A-Turvey@suffolkfed.org.uk  - we’d love to hear from you.