Senior Projects Coordinator

Job title: Senior Projects Coordinator

Location: Liverpool

Terms of employment: Full time (35 hours p/w). 1-year fixed term contract 

Salary: Grade 4, £30,654 

The role is offered within a hybrid working environment with a blend of office and homeworking with a minimum of 6 days in the office per month.

Are you enthusiastic, highly organised and enjoy improvement work? If so, come and join us as Senior Projects Coordinator!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative and high performing team within the endoscopy accreditation programme (known as Joint Advisory Group, JAG), which works with endoscopy services across the UK and Ireland to ensure the highest quality of care for patients. The successful candidate will be experienced at overseeing a range of projects and will have a passion for improving health services.

Purpose and scope

About the role

The senior projects coordinator will be responsible for:

• Overseeing the accreditation pathway from start-to-finish, ensuring that the assessment process is managed efficiently and to high quality standards
• Delivering projects to improve the quality of the programme and the service that we offer endoscopy units across the UK and Ireland.
• Line managing a small team and taking responsibility for our clinical and managerial assessors across the UK and Ireland.
• Providing ideas to improve what we do, bringing in creativity and enthusiasm for process improvement and change.

About you

We’re looking for candidates with:

• Experience of working in a busy environment with multiple priorities.
• Excellent organisational skills, problem-solving ability and the ability to seek out and implement improvements in our processes.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including clinicians and senior staff.

Further information

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a commitment to our core values – collaboration, learning and taking care. For more information about the role please view the job description and check out our programme website www.thejag.org.uk .

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Madeline Bano, Programme Manager JAG Accreditation ([email protected] )

About the RCP

The Royal College of Physicians is a rewarding and friendly place to work with an incredible history, dating back to our foundation in 1518. We are a professional membership body for physicians – doctors who work in hospitals – with over 40,000 members in the UK and around the world working to improve patient care and reduce illness. Our activities focus on educating, improving and influencing for better health and care.

About the department

The Care Quality Improvement Department supports the RCPs strategic aim to improve care for patients. It utilises a variety of methods and approaches to drive improvements in activities, influences the quality of clinical practice via ambitious work programmes that are delivered via constituent teams.

About the Accreditation Unit (AU)

The AU comprises around 30 staff and 80 external accreditation assessors who work across six clinical areas. The AU is highly experienced and credible at leading professionally led and patient-centred clinical accreditation programmes as well as developing training packages for the endoscopy workforce. Each accreditation programme is clinically led and supported by a multi-disciplinary steering group that includes patient representation. The AU also hosts several large databases to support healthcare decision making, accreditation programmes and development of the endoscopy workforce.

Accreditation is a method of improving the quality of healthcare by assessing clinical services in relation to agreed standards. JAG is part of a wider accreditation unit and we pride ourselves on our dedication to delivering high quality work and making a difference. We have a culture of involvement; everyone’s views matter and we want you to contribute your ideas and help shape and improve what we do.

Our benefits

Working at the RCP comes with lots of benefits designed to ensure that you feel valued and supported in your role. The benefits we offer include:

• 27 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• group personal pension plan with 7% employer contribution
• interest-free season ticket loan 
• life assurance
• annual pay award 
• flexible working hours
• employee assistance programme – 24/7 advice and support for any work-related issues as well as any problems affecting your home life
• occupational health team – includes employment and work-related health assessments, health checks and work station assessments
• cycle to work scheme 
• corporate eye care scheme
• professional training and development opportunities 
• enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• staff discounts platform – including discounts on cinema tickets and a range of high street brands

How to apply

To apply for this role please submit your CV and a supporting statement explaining, with clear examples, how your skills and experience match the job description and person specification. Applicants who do not submit a relevant supporting statement will not be shortlisted.

Please note, shortlisted candidates will be notified via email.

Closing date: 10 April

Expected interview date: 17 April

The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.

The RCP is all about our people – our members, staff, volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. Welcoming into our community people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is a priority for us.