Programme Officer; Medical

Programme Officer (Medical Pay & Reward)

Salary: £26,043 per annum (+ £4,000

London weighting if applicable)

Location: Agile working between home and our London or Leeds office

Wemay close early if we receive high numbers of suitable applications.

We have two exciting opportunities to join the Medical Pay & Reward team or the Job Evaluation team with NHS Employers.

The Pay, Reward and Employment Relations directorate is responsible for a programme of work that through partnership working with trade unions and employers, and other national stakeholders. The work of the directorate ensures that national pay and contractual provisions are implemented correctly and consistently by NHS organisations and that employers views on matters relating to pay, contracts and pensions are represented at national level.

As a Programme Officer in the Medical Pay & Reward Team or the Job Evaluation team you will:

• Provide secretariat support for national meetings, including diary coordination, circulating confidential papers, minutes and action tracking.
• Responsible for answering queries from employers from our mailboxes in an accurate and timely way, providing excellent customer service.
• Responsible for the maintenance of the teams section of the NHS Employers website. This will involve amending and updating the website as required.
• Raise purchase orders, log invoices and support budget tracking.
• Keep the teams quarterly work plan and project plans up to date
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, forums and workshops, including logistics, agendas and minutes.
• Support the creation of programme resources such as case studies, blogs and infographics.

The NHS Alliance is the independent membership body that represents and supports the health and care system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We represent, strengthen and support providers and commissioners of NHS care so that the NHS performs at its best and improves patient care across the UK representing frontline reality to government, shaping policy and building capability. We work across the whole NHS as well as within its individual sectors.

• Providing high quality secretariat support for national meetings of employers and trade union representatives. This includes arranging meetings to suit multiple diaries and diary management for colleagues in the team, circulating confidential meeting papers, minute-taking, following up actions and maintaining membership records.
• Responsibility for answering queries from employers from our mailboxes in an accurate and timely way, providing excellent customer service. You will understand any problems, signpost to relevant online information and escalate within the team where appropriate.
• Responsibility for the maintenance of the teams section of the NHS Employers website. This will involve amending and updating the website as required.
• Raising purchase orders for authorisation using the electronic finance system and logging invoices, and providing input to the team budget tracker.
• Maintaining and updating the team quarterly work plan and specific project plans that support the requirements of the programme.
• Co-ordinating internal and external meetings such as team meetings, national forums and workshops, including date allocation, room booking, compiling and circulating agendas and papers, minute taking and arranging catering services.
• Working on the development of products, such as case studies, blogs, infographics, posters and other resources with support from senior programme officers and/or programme leads.

• Experience of providing administrative or secretariat support to individuals and/or a team.
• Experience of managing diaries, organising meetings and managing attendees. Experience of booking of meeting and/or event venues.
• Experience of working with sensitive, confidential materials.
• Experience/awareness of NHS and/or employment relations related topics, including the ability to deal with terms and conditions.

Full-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working