Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 990-SW-6774443-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS England South West
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Project Support Officer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post-holder will support the delivery of projects across the portfolio of the South West Health and Justice Team to improve health outcomes for our population. The role will support good governance, ensuring value for money and robust decision making.
Relevant services include healthcare in prisons, sexual assault and abuse services and other healthcare services to people in touch with the criminal justice system. The post-holder will work alongside partners including other NHS bodies, the Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Public Health and healthcare providers to support good healthcare outcomes and reductions in health inequalities.
The successful applicant will be based in the Bristol office and will be able to travel across the South West region. The postholder will be expected to work in person (in the office or on site) for at least 40% of their working time.
The Health and Justice Team has two vacancies for Project Support Officers, which are being advertised separately. It is envisaged that this role (6774443) will work across the team, including developing governance processes and working on cross-cutting projects. The role will also include specific project support to the Sexual Assault and Abuse Services commissioners in the team. The other role currently being advertised (6716092) will focus on providing support to the prison healthcare commissioners in the team. Please apply for either or both depending on your particular interests and skills.
Main duties of the job
The post is responsible for:
- Supporting the commissioning of safe, effective and value for money services across the Health and Justice portfolio
- Contributing to a reduction in the health inequalities experienced by people in touch with Health and Justice services
- Providing particular project support to one area of the team's work, currently envisaged to be Sexual Assault and Abuse Services
Working for our organisation
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
- Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring spends, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects.
Person specification
Qualifications
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
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
- • Understanding of and commitment to reducing health inequality
- • Able to spend 40% of their working hours working in person, mostly in the Bristol office
Desirable criteria
- • Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate
- • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Rhodes
- Job title
- Planning and Contracts Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07872812839
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