Job summary
- Main area
- Imaging
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (end date 31/03/2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2062
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Programme Support Officer
Band 5
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
This is an exciting and challenging time to be working within diagnostics with a variety of national funding streams in place to enact transformation to streamline and enhance patient pathways.
The post holder will support the diagnostics clinical networks develop and deliver transformational programmes and projects in line with the ICS’s priorities for diagnostic services. The role is crucial in providing administration and planning support for the diagnostics clinical networks.
This role is very much an ICS focused role, liaising with a wide range of staff within the sector acute providers, the ICB diagnostics team and NHSE and other sectors as needed.
This is a new post funded from NHS England monies transferred to the ICB and then Imperial and ringfenced for Diagnostics Transformation. Whilst the role is funded through time-limited transformation monies the case for funding it beyond that will be examined further, however no commitment can be made at this time.
Main duties of the job
- Provide high quality project, service, initiative and administrative support including information and analysis.
- Enable, promote and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to improve, inform and support a portfolio of projects, services, and initiatives.
- Engage and work collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and senior stakeholders.
- Assist in updating and maintaining key documents (using full suite of Microsoft Office tools) including presentations, programme risk and issue logs, risk reports, progress reports, dependency logs, action logs.
- Attend programme and team meetings, supporting forward agenda planning, coordinating contributions to papers, preparing papers and presentations, taking high-level minutes, tracking actions and version control.
- Organise and participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice to strategic leads.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
- Skills for supporting project management
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Skills for managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets
Desirable criteria
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previously worked in similar position within the public sector
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Poopak Sadeghi
- Job title
- NWL Digital Transformation Programme Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 078 8557 8740
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