Research Project Manager (Research Fellow)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic planning, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, and resource requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong communications links with key stakeholders, including project management groups, conveying complex issues and negotiating desired outcomes.
• Work flexibly as a member of the R&D management team to ensure the delivery of a high-quality service, leading and managing R&D policy and service developments as required, as dictated by local and national governance frameworks.
• Operate effectively in a political, demanding, and sensitive environment and proactively engage with NHS staff, clinicians and internal and external contractors.
• Deputise for the Chief Investigator/Head of R&D as required.
• Participate in in local/regional and national implementation forums to ensure dissemination of best practice.
• Supervise, mentor and line manage junior staff in equivalent disciplines as required.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to MSc or equivalent level, or experience of working at a senior level in research projects in an NHS Trust.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development. • Educated to PhD or equivalent level, or experience of working at a senior level in research projects in an NHS Trust.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven successful delivery of projects. • Experience of project management in an NHS R&D environment. • Experience of identifying, avoiding and managing risks and putting in place appropriate contingencies within this environment. • Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with other organisations, within and outside the NHS. • Experience of policy or service development and leading and implementation change.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. • Experience of NHS procurement processes.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Confident user of Microsoft Office, and project management software. • Knowledge of financial processes.

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of current issues relating to the NHS.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Used to working in a busy environment. • Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet critical deadlines. • Able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. • Excellent communication and presentation skills. • Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and present complex and sensitive information. • Able to work to tight and often changing timescales. • Able to analyse complex facts and situations, analyse options and develop creative solutions. • Able to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly. • Able to relate to communicate with and influence staff at all levels in the organisation. • Able to travel between sites. • Able to supervise, mentor, manage and lead junior staff in accompanying roles

Desirable criteria

• Strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values. (As detailed in UHCW's Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

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