Project Co-ordinator

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 56,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a 12-month fixed-term role to coordinate the BCSP Accreditation and Mentorship Programme at a national level across England. The post holder will work with the North West Endoscopy Academy and collaborate with NHS England, HEI partners, and Endoscopy Training Academies to deliver milestones and governance requirements.

The role involves managing trainee recruitment, data collection, and stakeholder engagement across seven

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent required.
• PRINCE2 Foundation certificate preferred.
• Experience with project management would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintain project plans and ensure milestones are met.
• Coordinate trainee recruitment, onboarding and engagement activities.
• Collect, monitor and analyse programme data; produce dashboards and reports.
• Support governance and reporting requirements; manage risks and issues.

Skills

PRINCE2 Foundation

Project coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Data collection & analysis

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

Windows-based computing

Job description

This 12-month fixed-term role will coordinate the BCSP Accreditation and Mentorship Programme at a national level, supporting work across England rather than within a single region. The programme aims to increase the number of accredited BCSP endoscopists and help services prepare for the anticipated rise in demand associated with FIT80 implementation and the expansion of bowel cancer screening. Based within the North West Endoscopy Academy, the successful candidate will work as part of the Academy team while collaborating with multidisciplinary colleagues across England. This will include clinical leads, mentors, Higher Education Institution partners, NHS England colleagues, screening centres and representatives from Endoscopy Training Academies in other regions. Acting as the central point of coordination, the postholder will support delivery to agreed timescales, monitor progress against key milestones and provide high-quality project management support to this complex national initiative. The role offers a valuable opportunity to build relationships across regions and professions while contributing to a programme with national impact.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining project plans and ensuring delivery milestones are met.
• Coordinating trainee recruitment, onboarding and engagement activities.
• Collecting, monitoring and analysing programme data.
• Producing regular reports, dashboards and performance updates for governance groups.
• Supporting programme evaluation and the collection of outcome measures.
• Organising meetings, webinars, workshops and stakeholder events.
• Maintaining risk, issue and action logs and supporting mitigation plans.
• Developing effective working relationships with regional and national stakeholders.
• Liaising with trainees, mentors, Academy Leads, NHS England, higher education partners and screening centres.
• Supporting communication and engagement activities across all participating academies.
• Ensuring accurate documentation and audit trails are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Onboarding and tracking of over 100 trainees nationally.
• Delivery of programme governance and reporting requirements.
• Data collection and evaluation activities.
• Stakeholder engagement across seven Endoscopy Training Academies.
• Delivery of project milestones within agreed timescales and budget.
• Development of a sustainable national model for BCSP screener development.

Essential Criteria

• Degree or equivalent, PRINCE2 Foundation certificate, Essential criteria
• Computer literacy Windows based computing

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of Project Management, e.g. PRINCE2
• Planning courses and training schedules
• Process Mapping
• Preparation of standard project documentation - preferably using PRINCE 2
• Experience of working in a NHS environment, Knowledge of IT, Data Protection principles and NHS confidentiality requirements, Ability to interpret requirements, deployment schedules and expected benefits of projects
• Teaching and presentational skills
• Organisational skills
• Planning and Prioritisation
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and across organizational boundaries - both written and verbal, Tactful, diplomatic
• Able to manage own time and work unsupervised

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West. We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.