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Vacancy - Sustainability Evaluation Project Lead

To apply, send us your CV and covering letter

 
  • Hours: 37.5 hours per week 
  • Contract: Fixed Term, January 2025 to March 2026
  • Annual salary: Competitive salary, information available during the selection process
  • Closing date: Friday 13 December 2024
  • Interview date: To be arranged with individual applicants 
  • Start date: Flexible 

Overview

As we enter Phase 2 of our National Lottery Climate Action Funding for Green and Healthy Frome, we are looking to recruit a Sustainability and Evaluation Project Lead to further embed our sustainability projects. This will include the measurement and evaluation our carbon footprint with aims to reduce as part of our ambition to achieve Net Carbon Zero for Frome. The role will play a critical part in capturing and communicating our learning. The role will share this beyond the practice and local community; across Somerset and nationally, for the duration of the contract.

You will have an environmental science or other relevant degree with a good understanding of environmental management and excellent monitoring and evaluation skills.

You will work closely with our Sustainability & Evaluation Lead, Community Sustainability Lead, our communications team, and the wider Climate Action Fund Team. You will report monthly to our Practice Sustainability Core Group which includes our Senior GP Partner, our Practice and Primary Care Network Manager, Sustainability Project Lead, and our Digital Transformation Lead.

The Contract is fixed term running from January 2025 until March 2026 with the possibility of a 6 months extension. 

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Main Duties

  • To take forward our existing work and achievements and to build on these within the practice and the local community.
  • To lead on ensuring the practice and wider building carbon footprint is evaluated and calculated annually. This includes working with the Sustainability Project Lead and other building. This will include contributing to setting energy and waste management targets, conducting travel audits and contributing to and measuring sustainability targets in a range of areas. This may include prescribing and medical diagnostic tests.
  • Ensuring the impact of our Healthy Lifestyles project work on patient health is evaluated. This will include the evaluation of Healthy Lifestyle courses and specific project work focussing on population health needs. This will include work with our Lifestyle coordinator.
  • To lead on ensuring projects use a Sustainable QI approach. This will include a focus on the carbon impact of services offered and the ability to calculate carbon savings when services are commissioned. Examples of this would be projects aimed at healthy lifestyles or reducing hospital admissions.
  • To work with our practice team to ensure we continue to be at the forefront of innovation and best practice; and share our learning in this area.

In our recent NHSE PCN Pilot survey we were the highest ranked PCN for "positive experience of working in Primary Care" across our whole team.

 

Benefits

  • NHS pension available
  • Free parking 
  • NHS & local discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • In-house training
  • Employee events
  • Free eye test vouchers
 

Essential qualifications and experience:
Qualifications
  • Minimum of degree level, ideally in environmental science or other relevant subject areas, or evidence of equivalent transferrable skills
Essential		  
Experience
  • Knowledge of setting targets and analysing and interpreting data to inform progress towards achieving net zero.
  • This should include using quantitative and qualitative measures.
  • Knowledge of using sustainable Quality Improvement (QI)
  • Knowledge of calculating carbon footprint of an organisation or activities
  • Knowledge of sustainability best practice
Essential
  • Experience of working with clinical systems in a health care environmentDesirable
Personal qualities and skills
  • Problem solving - The ability to independently analyse and solve problems in a logical and efficient manner and to take decisions where appropriate when working under pressure
  • Rapport - Ability to build this within the immediate team and wider partners. This will include networking and sharing of knowledge in the wider sector
  • Innovation - Ability to build on existing processes and make improvements to our service
  • Good communication – The ability to communicate clearly in verbal and written form and in different settings
  • Digital capability - Ability to learn new systems and pass knowledge on to others to improve team performance
  • Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
Essential		  
 

Applications

Closing date for applications: Friday 13 December 2024

Interview date: To be arranged with individual applicants 

To apply, send us your CV and covering letter

 

We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

 

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