Project Support Officer

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic project support officer with excellent organisational skills to join the Transformation and Delivery Team of the ICB based in Barnsley.

The Transformation and Delivery Team in Barnsley supports the ICB and partners to deliver our ambitions as set out within the Barnsley Health and Care Plan alongside the broader ambitions of South Yorkshire ICB.

The Project Support Officer will work as part of the transformation, delivery and improvement team delivering an effective project and business support service; providing efficient and effective administrative project support to the team.

You will be an excellent communicator with the ability to organise and prioritise workflow, you will be proficient in scheduling and managing a variety of tasks with competing deadlines. A key element of this role is engaging with stakeholders across the place partnership therefore having good interpersonal skills is essential.

This is an excellent role for someone wishing to gain experience working within project management to develop their skills and knowledge should they wish to progress into project management in the future.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the delivery of specific work streams and programmes; the below are examples of the areas of work this will include but will not be limited to:

• Supporting the transformation work streams across ICB Place
• Providing support and assisting with the completion of timely project management documentation.
• Supporting meetings that are in place as part of programme governance arrangements.
• Other business support arrangements such as organising events and meetings, booking rooms, coordination of Freedom of Information Requests that require a response from the team etc
• Supporting the Transformation & Delivery team with Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR)

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our four places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.