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Senior Project Officer (REF:102699)
£33,072 - £40,736 pro rata (Band 6)
Part time (18.75 hours per week)
Fixed term contract/secondment until 31 March 2024
Edinburgh or Glasgow – hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and positive individual to join the Person-Centred Design and Improvement (PCDI) programme team in the ihub’s People-Led Care Portfolio. This programme aims to support people working in health and social care in Scotland to take a person-centred and design-led approach to improving the services they deliver.
Successful candidates will have strong project management experience, excellent communication and report writing skills, and will also have the ability to connect with a wide range of stakeholders from across various sectors.
The role involves operational planning, co-ordination and monitoring of team projects, ensuring the successful completion of activities within agreed parameters such as timescales, cost and quality. This person will also be responsible for managing the programme’s learning networks and be involved in the planning and delivery of learning, involvement and co-design events.
This People-Led Care Portfolio sits within the Transformational Redesign Unit, which forms part of the Improvement Hub (ihub) within Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The ihub provides support for the redesign and continuous improvement of health and social care services. With an impressive range of improvement support programmes, we aspire to be at the leading edge of both thinking and practice in quality improvement. To find out more about our work please visit www.ihub.scot
Candidates are required to be educated to degree level or have equivalent knowledge and experience in project management in health and social care. It is essential you that you have strong communication and interpersonal skills as you will be required to connect people across the system to deliver projects.
To find out more about the Person-Centred Design and Improvement Programme please visit https://ihub.scot/pcdi
For further information or informal enquiries, please contact Diane Graham, Senior Improvement Advisor for the Person-Centred Design and Improvement Programme, on diane.graham@nhs.scot.
Closing date: 30 May 2022 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held in the week beginning 20 June 2022 via MS Teams.