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Job Description
Business Improvement Officer PKC10334
£40,243 - £42,946 (PKC PR9 - 36 hours per week)
£35,392 - £42,618 (NHS Band 7 - 37.5 hours per week)
2 High Street, Perth PH1 5PH
Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership Business Improvement Team is looking for an enthusiastic and customer focused individual for this role, providing project management and business/performance information support across a varied range of activities and systems. The Team is high performing, innovative and constantly looking to challenge the status quo and do things better. This role presents an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of health and social care services at a time of significant change and innovation.
Although based within 2 High Street, the successful post holder will predominantly be working remotely but digitally connected to the Team. The successful post holder must have the ability to work independently to achieve desired productivity. In doing so the post holder will be supporting teams and services throughout the Health and Social Care Partnership to improve the service provided to services and patients.
Are you an innovative, confident, enthusiastic, hardworking individual with a desire to improve services? Do you have excellent communication skills? Do you have the skills and knowledge to work with a broad range of stakeholders to support business improvement, performance management processes and structures, collect and analyse data, challenge information and current processes in an already high performing organisation?
Requirements
The successful candidate will be expected to: -
- Provide advice and guidance using business improvement techniques and methodologies including “PRINCE2”, and “AGILE” across a range of programmes.
- Provide business and change analysis expertise, identifying and defining solutions that will lead to transformational change and business/service improvement
- Carry out the role of Project Manager for business and improvement initiatives by producing and contributing to the development of business cases, improvement plans, Project Initiation Documents (PIDs) and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within the allocated resource.
- Ensure project methodologies and governance are applied for all formulated projects and include identification of risk, assessment of recourse/budget requirements.
- Ensure that systems are in place to identify, monitor and track benefits arising from business improvement initiatives
- Responsible for the collection and analysis of performance information for a number of stakeholders
- Contribute and provide support and co-ordination of the production of Strategic Plans as well as internal and externally published reports.
- Support services with the preparation and implementation of their performance frameworks, preparing and analysing statistical information to support operational and strategic decision making.
- Analyse and review data to produce reports outlining progress and recommendations for the Integration Joint Board and associated Committee(s), Senior/Executive Management and individual service management teams.
- Support Service Managers and Team Leaders in the delivery of business improvement by carrying out business process re-engineering through process mapping analysis, consultation and data collection.
- Design, develop and deliver presentations and materials at SMT, projects boards, seminars and workshops.
- Proactively maintain an up-to-date awareness of the relevant legislative and regulatory changes which affect and impact on service delivery, particularly in respect to public reporting requirements.
The Individual
If you would like any more information regarding this vacancy, please contact Laura DiMichele-Ross , Team Leader (Business Improvement & Transformation) on 01738 475485.
When applying for this post, please provide current contact details (including e-mail addresses) for two referees, one should be your present or most recent employer. However, if you are an existing employee of Perth & Kinross Council, you are only required to provide reference details for your current employer.
At PKC our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of the Perth and Kinross Offer. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours. Find out more about PKC and you could soon be joining our team!
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Some jobs may have been traditionally carried out predominately by one gender, but we would encourage you to apply if you meet the requirements, irrespective of your gender.
What we can do for you
If you are successful in a role with Perth & Kinross Council, you will have access to a range of benefits to help your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
A healthy work life balance is important to us and we provide supportive management and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. You will have access to training and support for continued professional development.
Perth & Kinross Council welcomes applications from former armed forces personnel/reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.
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