Project Manager

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Guildford seeks an experienced Project Manager to facilitate and coordinate trial activities within the Scientific Computing section. This role involves working with various stakeholders, ensuring compliance, and monitoring project milestones. The ideal candidate will possess an honours degree in a relevant field and have previous project management experience in healthcare. The organization fosters career development and offers a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Commitment to professional development

Investment in physical environment and equipment

Qualifications

• Previous experience with project management and healthcare-based research.
• Ability to operate in a flexible and demanding environment.
• Understanding of compliance and information governance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support daily trial/project activities.
• Manage and monitor project milestones.
• Liaise with stakeholders across multiple sites.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Effective communication

Problem-solving

Negotiation

Education

Honours degree in a relevant subject

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

An experienced project manager is required to join the Scientific Computing section in Medical Physics. The Project Manager will support, facilitate and coordinate daily trial/project activities and play a critical role in the conduct of the studies and ensuring milestones are tracked and monitored. By performing these duties, the Project Manager will work with the research lead and wider team, sponsor, and Trust to support and provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the various studies. Working closely with the general administrative team they will be responsible for ensuring relevant trials are set up and managed in accordance with regulatory, sponsor and RD&I Office requirements.

Support the delivery of a range of deliverables in complex environments, with experience in liaising with a number of stakeholders across multiple acute sites.

• To aid the Head of SciCom and the deputy in the day-to-day management of projects
• To help in planning and organising a number of complex trials, activities or events
• To represent SciCom at relevant meetings and events
• To provide support on information governance
• To provide support with DPIAs and have an understanding of DSA and DPAs
• To ensure all project management documents are regularly updated and reflect the status of the project
• Produce routine or ad-hoc reports for the team
• Highlight risk and any project concerns to senior managers promptly
• To escape project risk when it is appropriate
• To monitor the progress of the project and to ensure compliance with objectives and proposed outcomes
• Deliver presentations and facilitate workshops and events to a wide audience
• To use appropriate project management tools and strategies
• Apply project management skills to projects, recording and reporting timescales, progress and risks
• Actively seek knowledge and information from a wide range of sources to inform projects, sharing and disseminating good and innovative practices
• Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings
• Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of the project
• Undertake engagement events and opportunities to showcase SciCom's work
• Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of the project
• Proactively problem-solve and negotiate where issues arise in the development and implementation of the projects
• Engagement of patients, public, health and care organisations and other stakeholders in the delivery of projects
• Supervise and ensure confidential details are correctly uploaded onto Edge and any other R&D tracking tools

You should have an honours degree in a relative subject and previous experience with project management and healthcare based research.

The Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford provides medical physics services to the hospital, especially to St Luke's Cancer Centre, and to a number of surrounding hospitals. The work of the Department covers six main areas: the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography (NCCPM); Nuclear Medicine Physics and Radiopharmacy; Radiotherapy Physics; the Regional Radiation Protection Service; Scientific Computing. The Department is administratively in the Strategic Business Unit of Oncology and Medical Physics.

The Scientific Computing Section provides the specialised scientific and clinical computing support that is essential for the safe and effective delivery of many of the Department's services. This includes the management of commercial and proprietary software and solutions and the design, development and support of clinical, image processing and administration systems and databases.

Working for our organisation

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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