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.