Project Manager - Research & Development B7

The Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford provides medical physics services to the hospital, especially to St Luke's Cancer Centre, and to a number of surrounding hospitals. The work of the Department covers six main areas: the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography (NCCPM); Nuclear Medicine Physics and Radiopharmacy; Radiotherapy Physics; the Regional Radiation Protection Service; Scientific Computing. The Department is administratively in the Strategic Business Unit of Oncology and Medical Physics.

The Scientific Computing Section provides the specialised scientific and clinical computing support that is essential for the safe and effective delivery of many of the Department's services. This includes the management of commercial and proprietary software and solutions and the design, development and support of clinical, image processing and administration systems and databases.

Main duties of the job

An experienced project manager is required to join the Scientific Computing section in Medical Physics. The Project Manager will support, facilitate and coordinate daily trial/project activities and play a critical role in the conduct of the studies and ensuring milestones are tracked and monitored. By performing these duties, the Project Manager will work with the research lead and wider team, sponsor, and Trust to support and provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the various studies. Working closely with the general administrative team they will be responsible for ensuring relevant trials are set up and managed in accordance with regulatory, sponsor and RD&I Office requirements. You should have an honours degree in a relative subject and previous experience with project management and healthcare based research.

About us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description & Person Specification for full details

Support the delivery of a range of deliverables in complex environments, with experience in liaising with a number of stakeholders across multiple acute sites

To aid the Head of SciCom and the deputy in the day-to-day management of projects

To help in planning and organising a number of complex trials, activities or events

To represent SciCom at relevant meetings and events

To provide support on information governance

To provide support with DPIAs and have an understanding of DSA and DPAs

To ensure all project management documents are regularly updated and reflect the status of the project

Produce routine or ad-hoc reports for the team

Highlight risk and any project concerns to senior managers promptly

To escalate project risk when it is appropriate

To monitor the progress of the project and to ensure compliance with objectives and proposed outcomes

Deliver presentations and facilitate workshops and events to a wide audience

To use appropriate project management tools and strategies

Apply project management skills to projects, recording and reporting timescales, progress and risks

Actively seek knowledge and information from a wide range of sources to inform projects, sharing and disseminating good and innovative practices

Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders

Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings

Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of the project

Undertake engagement events and opportunities to showcase SciComs work

Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of the project

Proactively problem-solve and negotiate where issues arise in the development and implementation of the projects

Engagement of patients, public, health and care organisations and other stakeholders in the delivery of projects

Supervise and ensure confidential details are correctly uploaded onto Edge and any other R&D tracking tools

Person Specification Qualifications

• Project Management qualifications such as PRINCE2

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience working in R&D within the NHS
• Experience working in an academic or research environment
• Demonstrable competence and personal experience in Project and /or Program Management
• Experience of health service and in particular working alongside medical, IT and PACS staff
• Experience supervising and managing staff
• Knowledge of research setup at Trusts
• Knowledge of GCP
• Knowledge of NHS Trust IT and PACS systems
• Knowledge of IG, DPAI and confidentiality agreements
• Experience working with R&D software tools including Edge
• Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening Programs
• Knowledge of financial tracking and projections
• Experience in customer services, networking and working with a range of stakeholders within and external to the NHS
• Excellent practical analytical skills, including statistical analysis
• Knowledge of NHS finance and financial tools including SBS and financial tracking
• Experience of trial set up and monitoring
• Experience of working on a number of project or trial sites
• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft advanced-level Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Ability to work unsupervised in accordance with policies and procedures
• Ability to work unsupervised in accordance with policies and procedures
• Ability to work in restricted sitting or standing positions for substantial periods of time
• Basic knowledge of Scientific Computing
• Knowledge of project management software including Confluence and Trello
• Knowledge of server set-up, connectivity and cloud-based applications
• Knowledge of large research collection databases and their applications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearper annum including (HCAS) High Cost Area Supplement