Senior Programme Support Officer

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a BANK Senior Programme Support Officer to empower the PMO in delivering major projects and work programmes aligned with strategic priorities and efficiency programmes.

You will provide admin and PMO support, maintain project documentation, coordinate boards, take minutes, and signpost templates to ensure consistent approaches across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Support development and embedding PMO processes and documentation to ensure PMO effectiveness and integration within the organisation.
• Track and report on all projects/programmes using PMO systems.
• Coordinate with project leads and action owners across the portfolio of programmes and ensure adherence to governance.
• Arrange Project/Programme Boards and other work stream meetings, circulate papers, and take minutes.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a BANK Senior Programme Support Officer to support the work of the BWC Programme Management Office (PMO) in facilitating the development and delivery of key projects and work programmes. This includes the organisations strategic priorities in programme and efficiency programme.

The post holder will provide support to develop and embed necessary processes and documentation to ensure that the PMO is effective and integral to the organisation.

The post holder will work with clinicians, operational managers and other relevant professionals across the Trust and Integrated Care System (ICS) and have experience and specialist knowledge in programme/ project management.

They will use PMO systems for tracking and reporting of all projects/ programmes of work.

The post provides a good developmental opportunity for someone to apply and develop their skills in project and programme management. It will suit someone with some project and/or programme management experience with an ambition to further develop a career in this area.

The Senior Programme Support Officer will provide day to day support to the Head of Strategic Programme Development and the Programme Manager.

This will involve liaising with project leads and action owners across the whole portfolio of programmes and projects including the strategic priorities and efficiencies programme and ensuring the maintenance of project and programme plans and ensuring that all required documentation is completed to the required standard.

The Senior Programme Support Officer will act as a main point of contact for the PMO and maintain and signpost staff to the approved PMO templates and tools, ensuring consistency of approach across the organisation.

The role will involve providing administrative support across the portfolio of programmes, arranging Project/Programme Boards and other work stream meetings, collating and circulating papers and taking minutes and action notes as appropriate.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.