Project Support Officer

Job summary

Due to numerous projects being undertaken, including the deployment of a Trust auditing tool an opportunity has arisen within the Trust for 2 Project Support Officers to work in the Digital Transformation team.

We are seeking skilled, motivated people to work with our project managers and ACCIO's (Associate Chief Clinical Information Officers) on the delivery of various digital projects supporting our Digital Transformation Strategy. The projects within the programme are crucial to the Trust realising its goal of promoting innovation and redesigning services to deliver care that is tailored to individual patient needs.

The key focus of the roles are to supportorganisational and behavioural change within our clinical services. The successful candidates will engage with staff to redesign current systems, processes and working practices in order to maximise the benefits that implementing technology can offer, while ensuring all project paperwork is correctly completed and in order, with a strong emphasis on communication and engagement, as well as the documenting the benefits achieved.

These are exciting opportunities for people who are interested in supporting change within an organisation. These posts would suit someone with strong organisational skills and a particular interest in communications.

You will be based at Pinewood House, Dartford, but you will need to travel to other bases across the trust and there is likely to be some home working opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and maintain effective communication with the Project Manager and project team, including trust advisors to support the delivery of the projects.
• Particular focus on Communications workstream for projects
• Prioritise verbal and written communication requests to ensure urgent enquiries are dealt with
• Draft responses on behalf of the Project Manager and ACCIO's on matters relating to projects including the preparation of board papers and team meeting papers.
• Co-ordinate and arrange meetings ensuring the resources required are available for the running of meetings.
• Provide administrative support as required to support the running of meetings
• Manage the project manager's or ACCIO's diary and support with general admin tasks
• Ensure all interested parties are informed of changes to project plans and arrangements for meetings.
• Act as a point of contact for the project with Trust staff, external suppliers and any other bodies.
• Ensure that all written information relating to the project is received, logged and acted upon in a timely fashion.
• Collation and production of project documents, including but not limited to routine project reports including risks and issues logs
• Under the guidance of the project manager or ACCIO act as lead on one or more specific work streams to support the overall delivery of projects and develop project management skills further.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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