Project Support Officer

Job overview

The role is the first point of contact with the care group for a range of external partners, existing and potential new starters. Working effectively and collaboratively with Universities, Further Education Institutes, NHS providers and providing a warm welcome to students, apprentices and new starters; you will be demonstrating the friendly, efficient and professional approach offered by our service area and organisation.

Working across a variety of existing and evolving projects you will support clinicians and service leads to plan and deliver on projects, in particular identifying, collecting and collating data to evidence project progress.  Your communication, negotiation and problem solving skills will be essential to identify novel solutions in quick moving situations with competing demands in particular when sourcing and coordinating placements for pre- registration students.

Main duties of the job

Sourcing and managing student placements for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy from Universities across the region. Working with placement leads in Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics, Podiatry and Community Nursing to ensure educators are taking their 'fair share' of students and providing a good quality placement.

Providing a first point of contact for external partners in relationship to students and apprentices, quality assuring the welcome/ first impression of new starters and students to the Community Therapy and Frailty Care Group.

Developing and maintaining spreadsheets/databases to inform regular reports regarding placement capacity and tariff income generation. Maintaining up to date record of access to external training/development courses for clinical staff in the care group, quality assuring the applications and identifying the most appropriate funding route.

Supporting the development of new graduates and staff new to the NHS through preceptorship, ensuring staff have timely access to information and resources, tracking their progress through the preceptorship and foundation stages.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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