Operations Lead, Nihr Greater Manchester Patient - The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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 of our activities.

The University Principal Investigator and Director is Professor Darren Ashcroft. This post will be appointed in the PSRC under the line management of Karen Goodson.

The PSRC Operations Lead will take overall responsibility for the organisation and operational oversight of the PSRC, ensuring effective organisation, functioning and communication between the partners who successfully secured NIHR funding, namely the Northern Care Alliance (NCA) NHS Foundation Trust, and the Universities of Manchester, Leicester and Nottingham.

Purpose of role

The key purpose of this post is to provide high quality project management for the relevant PSTRC Greater Manchester projects, ensuring delivery of projects in a timely and rigorous fashion and to a strict timetable and budget.

This will involve extensive liaison with the project team and collaborators.

The person

You will:

Be experienced in working in or with academic and research organisations at a senior level;
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
Be a team player who is responsive, efficient, highly motivated and possesses effective presentation and negotiation skills and has the credibility to represent the PSRC to external partners and stakeholders;
Have experience of writing reports/and or academic papers;
Have relevant previous managerial and administrative experience inclusive of budgeting and business finance experience, and all aspects of general staff management;
Have experience in developing relevant organisational and administration structures;
Have a proactive approach, with excellent organisational skills and project management skills, preferably with PRINCE2 and/or MSP Practitioner or industry equivalent.
Have the ability to prioritise and balance workloads, deliver results and meet targets under pressure.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name:
Darren Ashcroft

General enquiries:

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