Programme Support Officer

Job summary

At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we provide a service that is unique, we help our donors do something extraordinary to save or enhance a life in need. You too can join us and play your part in our life-saving organisation.

We are looking for a Programme Support Officer to join the Donor and Session Programme (DASP), a critical digitally-led transformation programme to truly transform how donors engage with NHSBT to ensure equitable access, enhanced safety, and resilient supply chains for lifesaving blood and plasma products. This is a key role for the programme, and you will be joining us at inception stage, enabling you to have full impact on delivery.

You will be part of an organisational wide, central team and will be assigned to different programmes and portfolios in line with demand. This could be anything from working on a Donor Centre Programme for a new Donor Centre or a programme with a digital focus such as advancing our Donor and Session platform.

You can be based anywhere in England, this role will have a national remit, so hybrid working is how we facilitate this. Only some of your work will be face-to-face due to the national spread of our organisation, so you need to be comfortable with remote working.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be a key member of the team, you will need to support effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.

You will contribute to the delivery of the programme to which you are assigned by providing coordination and change control support services. Additionally, you will support programme reporting, programme document management and maintenance and plan key meetings for the programme, whilst providing administrative support.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.