Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Wednesbury, England
Job overview
The project officer role will provide support to the WorkWell management team. The role will support the project manager and management team with monitoring contract performance and compliance and ensuring all relevant submissions are scheduled and submitted within deadlines. To provide a high level of administration and support on WorkWell ensuring that the provision of information in the form of reports, dashboards, datasets and statutory returns as appropriate meets the requirements of service users both internal and external
Having the right value base is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
WorkWell Project Support Officer, Band 5, £28,407 – £34,581, fixed term contract until 31st March 2026
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting 1 WTE WorkWell to be based in our WorkWell service , which supports individuals who maybe experiencing multiple and complex health barriers preventing them from accessing employment opportunities or retaining their employment.
The role will support the WorkWell management team with project support and deliver a high level of administration. The role will support the delivery of WorkWell and small-medium scale projects for defined area of responsibility, from project development and initiation to project close, ensuring overall outcomes and benefits are delivered for the benefit of all identified stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- CAMHS
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Post Title: WorkWell Project Support Officer
Department: Employment and Recovery Service
Location: Black Country Wide
Band: 5
Hours: 37.5
Contract Type: Fixed term contract
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, including experience of using these to successfully deliver projects
- Good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills across a range of professional staff, external organisations and other stakeholders
- Proven presentation skills in a variety of situations, including training and implementation of tools that are unfamiliar to recipients
Desirable criteria
- Project Management qualification (APM Introductory Certificate, PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent)
- Experience of redesigning systems and processes to deliver effective change
- Experience of taking minutes at formal meetings of senior managers / clinicians
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 18 months
Pay: £29,969.00-£36,483.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Childcare
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- UK visa sponsorship
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Wednesbury, West Midlands: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- educated to degree level (required)
- strong knowledge of project methodologies (required)
- good negotiation and interpersonal skills (preferred)
- proven presenter to a variety of audience (required)
- PM Qualification (eg prince 2, AMP) not essential desirable (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 285-5651-CORP