Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and clearly with staff at all levels.
- Skills
Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize a varied workload and meet strict deadlines.
- Skills
Ability to provide administrative support to meetings, such as preparing minutes and maintaining an accurate action log.
- Experience
Experience acting as a first point of contact and handling a high volume of queries via phone, email, and face-to-face
- Experience
Experience organising meetings, booking venues, and taking accurate minutes or action notes
- Experience
Experience of managing shared email inboxes and maintaining electronic and paper filing systems.
- Qualifications/Knowledge
Evidence of Secondary education or equivalent.
- Qualifications/Knowledge
Evidence of recent continuous professional development.
- Qualifications/Knowledge
Clear understanding of data protection, confidentiality, and information governance principles.
- Qualifications/Knowledge
Familiarity with NHS systems (such as the Electronic Staff Record - ESR).
- Qualifications/Knowledge
Basic understanding of the core themes within the NHS People Promise and why staff engagement is critical in a healthcare setting
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of supporting the facilitation of training
- Experience
Experience of working in a supporting role in specialist Human Resource areas including such as, Health and Wellbeing, Learning and Development or Organisational Development
- Experience
Experience using survey platforms or data collation tools.
- Experience
Podcasts/blogging/digital media
Job overview
Project Assistant - 28 hours
The Project Assistant plays a key role in supporting the Staff Health & Wellbeing and Colleague Experience portfolios within the Organisational Development Service. The role focuses on delivering high‑quality administrative, coordination and communication support that helps create a positive workplace culture and enhances staff experience across the Trust.
You will act as a first point of contact for the Inclusion and Colleague Experience Team, managing shared inboxes, responding to queries, organising meetings, taking minutes, maintaining records, and supporting the delivery of wellbeing, engagement and inclusion initiatives. The role also involves coordinating events, assisting with staff surveys, supporting internal communications, managing social media messaging for wellbeing campaigns, and helping facilitate key engagement activities such as focus groups, welcome sessions and long‑service celebrations.
This is a varied and fast‑paced role suited to someone highly organised, confident communicating with staff at all levels, and passionate about improving colleague experience. You will work collaboratively across departments, contribute to project delivery, and help ensure staff have access to the resources, support and opportunities that enable them to thrive at work.
Main duties of the job
- Act as the first point of contact for the Inclusion and Colleague Experience Team, managing shared inboxes and responding to routine queries.
- Provide comprehensive administrative support, including organising meetings, preparing agendas, taking minutes and maintaining accurate action logs.
- Coordinate wellbeing and engagement events, training sessions, roadshows and focus groups, ensuring venues, materials and logistics are well managed.
- Support staff engagement activities such as the NHS Staff Survey, People Pulse, corporate welcome sessions and long‑service awards.
- Maintain and update departmental records, databases and filing systems, ensuring information is accurate and secure.
- Assist with internal communications, including drafting wellbeing newsletters, updating intranet pages and supporting social media messaging for campaigns.
- Liaise with internal teams and external providers to help deliver wellbeing, inclusion and engagement initiatives.
- Provide general project support, helping monitor actions, deadlines and progress across key programmes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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This advert is for Project Assistant with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, England. It is listed as a Assistant role. The advertised salary is £25760.00 to £27476.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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