Business and Project Support Officer

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will be responsible for the allocation, co-ordination and distribution of all project work generated by the senior leadership team to respective team managers and must self-manage and prioritise their own workload. The post holder must communicate effectively and work collaboratively with both clinical, non-clinical colleagues and external agencies to ensure the delivery of a professional and co-ordinated project management service.
The post holder will be the responsible officer to oversee systems management for Facilities Services, liaising with IT to ensure all packages are up-to-date, compliant and operated within the Trust governance processes.
On occasion the post holder will act as Mentor / Trainer to new members of the team as and when required. Other duties will be incorporated and subject to the ever-changing needs of a community setting.
The post holder will maintain and in conjunction with service leads develop Facilities Services in line technological advances to ensure the most efficient and effective processes are followed.
We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Excellent Pension
Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service
Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service
Health and wellbeing support
Career development opportunities
Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles
NHS Discount schemes (Blue Light Card) access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to Family Holidays and more
Provide a range of administrative and project support work to Facilities Services, to enable the department to improve its service to the patients it serves.
Act as the responsible person for oversight, input, and maintenance of applications, with a focus on Healthroster and other applications including but not limited to MiC4C (environmental audit), Accommodator (Accommodation management), Menu mark (Catering management including POS) Smartpage and TMS (Domestic Time Management system).
Lead on specific work streams, ensuring plans are in place for the completion of complex activities.
Provide high level support to projects / programmes which will include undertaking specific pieces of work. Support production of written reports and documents e.g. programme / project updates and high-level reports.
Develop and ensure new processes and procedures are in place as they change through service improvement work. Ensure communication with all stakeholders and provide training if required

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