Community Diagnostic Centre - Project Support Officer

Job summary

We now have a fantastic fixed-term opportunity for a Project Support Officer to join the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) Project team until the end of March 2024, (a post which is hosted by Sherwood Forest Hospitals, (SFH). The CDC, based in Mansfield, gained government funding in early 2023, and the post will involve working with the project team, whose main objective is to construct and operationalise the CDC within its project scope, time and budget.

The core principles of the project team are delivery, problem solving and project assurance and governance. We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of excellent organisation and administrative skills to support delivery.

Main duties of the job

In this important fixed term role, you will work as a Project Support Officer, supporting the Diagnostic Improvement Programme Manager, Operational and Clinical lead to deliver the CDC project.

You will support the project team to:-

• co-ordinate the CDC project, providing liaison with members of the clinical, operational, and other hospital staff, resolving day to day issues (within scope of the role) independently.
• provide administrative input and support to collate, update and interpret 'high level' results from project documents, in terms of progress against delivery.
• act as the first point of contact for general CDC project enquiries, inclusive of supporting the Diagnostic Improvement Programme Manager in the monitoring and management of the Mansfield CDC generic email address

The ideal candidate will be confident, enthusiastic, highly motivated, flexible and hard working, have the ability to work and build relationships with all key project stakeholders, who will also include colleagues external to SFH.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.