Project Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6197478/196-COF10171-T |
Summary
The South East Genomic Medicine Service (SE GMS) is seeking a talented and experienced Project Manager to join our dynamic team. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, implementation, and execution of projects within the GMS.
This role will drive transformation to enable the embedding of genomics in mainstream clinical services across a regional geography, improving clinical pathways and enabling wider service change. This role will collaborate with an array of stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget, while meeting quality standards.
It is an exciting time to join this innovative healthcare field as genomics gathers pace across multiple areas of medicine, delivering better and faster outcomes for patients. The post holder will have the opportunity to create meaningful impact in a new, cutting-edge genomics service in the NHS, working on regional and national programmes of change.
The post holder will have exceptional drive and take a flexible approach in responding to changing demands. They will have experience working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex change across multiple organisations. A track record establishing collaborative relationships across organisational boundaries will be an asset, as will experience in genomics or a related clinical discipline.
The SE GMS Project Manager will design and deliver a series of projects within the SE GMS, ensuring their effective delivery of strategic change across a multitude of organisations within the region. The post holder will take a lead on project objectives with responsibility for day-to-day delivery, and subsequent performance management, adjusting plans as required to ensure that risks and issues are mitigated.
The post holder will work closely with clinicians and managers to ensure provision of the best possible patient experience and service delivery. They will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies and delivery of objectives.
The post holder will use structured methodologies and best practice to define, scope, manage and deliver their projects, with varying complexity and working across internal and external stakeholders.
The post holder will ensure that all projects are designed and delivered in a patient centred way, ensuring that the needs of patients are central to all service change and pathway transformation.
The post holder will ensure all projects are designed and delivered in alignment with the GMS’s commitment to reducing variation and to delivering equity of access across our diverse population, including alignment with the SE GMS equality, diversity and inclusion strategy.
Together, seven Genomic Laboratory Hubs (GLH) and Genomic Medicine Service Alliances (GMSA) across England form the national NHS Genomic Medicine Service.
The South East GMS comprises the South East GLH and South East GMSA, covering South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex regions.
We jointly deliver standardised genomic testing pathways in accordance with the National Genomic Test Directory and support the systematic embedding of genomic medicine in to routine care. Our aim is to reduce unwarranted variation and make demonstrable improvements to outcomes for our patients by ensuring their clinical care fully benefits from advances in genomics.
To support this work across our region, we have a critical role in facilitating strong collaborations across disciplines and specialties, providing clinical leadership to enable the multi-professional workforce to use genomics safely, effectively and efficiently.
The South East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance is co-hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The GMSA enables providers to collaborate in the provision of consistent and accessible genomic medicine services for a large and diverse population of around 9 million people. We aim to combine clinical expertise, an excellent track record in research, education and training, and involvement from our patients and public to achieve a step change in delivering genomics medicine for our population.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full detail of role responsibilities.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024