Administrator / Pa, Nihr Greater Manchester Patient - The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Do you want to be part of a diverse, supportive, and inclusive team, leading the way in patient safety research?

The University of Manchester has been awarded funding to establish the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC).

Our PSRC will be one of six new collaborations nationally and will, with our university partners in Leicester and Nottingham, address strategic patient safety challenges by developing and testing innovations, approaches, and interventions to improve patient safety.

Working in partnership with patients, carers, health and care professionals, the GM PSRC will focus on the following innovative research themes:

Improving Medication Safety
Enhancing Cultures of Safety
Developing Safer Health and Care Systems
Preventing Suicide and Selfharm

We are a friendly, multi-disciplinary team, with expertise including behavioural science, social research, health services research, epidemiology, health economics, safety science, digital patient safety solutions, health informatics, intervention development and evaluation.

We have a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity for our staff and students.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is fundamental to the success of the University of Manchester and is at the heart of all our activities.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.

All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here;

The NIHR GM Patient Safety Research Centre Greater seeks an Administrator/PA (0.8 FTE) from 1st April 2023. The Administrator/PA will report to the PSRC Operations Lead.

Purpose of Role:

The primary aim of this role is to provide comprehensive and proactive PA and administrative support for PSRC staff and activities undertaken in the PSRC.

The post-holder will work with and support colleagues across all three sites (Manchester, Leicester and Nottingham).

The postholder will also liaise closely with colleagues from our host NHS Trust, the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a dynamic and exciting role and will involve considerable flexibility and the ability to prioritise tasks to deliver administrative support for the PSRC.

The postholder's role will be to ensure effective and professional liaison and communication with academic, research, administrative and external customers at all levels, to facilitate the smooth running of day-to-day activities.

All appointments are made on merit.

Blended working arrangements may be considered.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name:
Karen Considine

General enquiries:

Technical support:

**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.