Health Inequalities Project Support Officer

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity available for an Health Inequalities Project Support Officer to join the team.

You will lead administration tasks for the Health Inequalities team providing consistent higher level and comprehensive support.

Development and overseeing delivery of health inequalities project plans

Participation in meetings and leading on task & finish groups as appropriate within projects, including drafting agendas, taking notes, producing actions logs with clear owners and timescales

Manage, prioritise, plan and organise own time and co-ordinate that of your team if appropriate, using extensive knowledge, skills and experience.

Provide support that encourages high performance from staff within the team, with the aim of maintaining optimum efficiency within the department. Standardising the Project Management process for the team.

Provide support and training to enable the rolling out of Making Every Contact Count across ESNEFT sites and beyond, alongside the MECC Project Lead.

This is fixed term/secondment post until 31st March 2027.

Main duties of the job

• Collation of project KPI's in order to facilitate reporting
• Support the team in gathering any data and research pertaining to the projects and strategy
• Provide a broad range of administrative/ support relevant to area, managing diaries and ensuring that urgent matters are actioned and escalated without dela
• Maintain working relationships within own and other departments to facilitate an effective service
• Use judgement to deal with a range of routine and non-routine problems that may arise, and only exceptionally refer very complex issues to the appropriate person.
• Responsible for developing, maintaining efficient filing systems and tracking reporting schedules
• Be a champion of Health Inequalities when speaking to stakeholders
• Take part in meetings and working groups and subsequently transcribe meeting notes, create action plans and take forward actions as appropriate
• Manage own workload to ensure completion of the full range of your tasks using the knowledge, skills and experience you have gained. Support other team members to undertake the full range of administrative activities.
• Maintaining a register of the collaborative projects that are ongoing within the team

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester General Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester General Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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