Senior Project Support Officer - PMO & Finance in London

Join our passionate team and work with us to improve cancer services across west London! This is an exciting opportunity to join RM Partners West London Cancer Alliance as a Senior Project Support Officer supporting delivery of a range of cancer service transformation projects across the geography. This is a one-year fixed post and will support RM Partners to deliver the aims of the National Cancer plan, working closely with colleagues across all our partners including acute Trusts, Primary Care and pan-London.

You will have a can-do attitude, excellent organisational skills and be able to grow and maintain relationships built on trust and a shared vision to deliver transformative changes to patient care and cancer services.

Main duties of the job:

• Develop effective communication links with all key stakeholders associated with the RM Partners programme and individual projects, including multidisciplinary clinical teams, primary care commissioners and senior managers in the participating ICs, acute hospital trusts, hospices and community services to facilitate provision and receipt of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Using excellent communication, negotiation and facilitation skills, ensure all stakeholders are aware of and engaged in the key RM Partners priorities and deliverables, within timescales and budget.
• Produce reports for the RM Partners governance groups, as well as to patient groups as required.

Person specification:

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Excellent communicator with strong negotiation and facilitation skills and the ability to influence and effect change at both a clinical and managerial level. Ability to engage with individuals at all levels including clinicians, senior managers, commissioners, patients and carers, across statutory and voluntary sector boundaries. Knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Qualifications: Comprehensive knowledge of the wider NHS agenda including sound understanding of NHS targets and national initiatives.
• Experience: Have a proactive rather than reactive response to achieving the goals of the project. Ability to travel within West London and to events/meetings London-wide and nationally. Highly self-motivated with high internal work standards.
• Other Requirements: Conceptual flexibility – ability to identify feasible alternatives or multiple options in planning and decision making; ability to hold different options in focus simultaneously and evaluates pros and cons. Ability to use a variety of methods to gain support for ideas, strategies and values. Ability to adapt to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing situations and environments.

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff: At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease. The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the utmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.