Project Support Officer

2 days ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Live Well Wakefield Full time

We’re hiring a Project Support Officer to join the Live Well Wakefield team, a community-based service that supports adults aged 18+ to improve their health, wellbeing and independence.

The Project Support Officer has a fundamental role in this team, so it’s a brilliant opportunity to use your administrative experience to make a difference. We offer great benefits and in our 2025 staff survey, 100% of the team told us they enjoy working at Live Well Wakefield

**What does a Project Support Officer do?**
- Acts as first point of contact/liaison for members of the public and other professionals, providing them with further information and signposting/triaging.
- Works with team members to provide administrative support for activities, caseloads and meetings.
- Works with sensitivity and has a good understanding of the issues experienced by users of the service.
- Actions referrals and queries into the relevant project, including managing the service inbox.
- Assists the team with a variety of communications methods to promote the relevant project.

This role will focus on the Economic Accelerator Programme at Live Well Wakefield, a new project supporting people to access services and address social needs that will help them to enter into, and/or sustain employment, staying well whilst in work.

**What are we looking for in our Project Support Officer?**
- Recent experience of providing administrative support to a team or service.
- Experience of working in a person-centred role with members of the public and communicating with a wide range of people.
- Experience of keeping accurate and timely records.
- Excellent organisational skills, and ability to manage time effectively, prioritise tasks independently, and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Confident IT skills.
- Operates in a non-judgemental, empathetic manner.
- Ability to work from Wakefield office base during service opening hours.

**What do we offer?**
- “I've not worked anywhere as supportive as Live Well” - from our recent staff survey_
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays
- 5% salary contribution to a pension scheme
- Access to Occupational Health
- Access to health service discount schemes, including Blue Light Card
- A range of policies and practices to ensure a supportive and inclusive workplace
- Competitive salary and annual pay reviews

Nova Wakefield District is a local charity that supports Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations in Wakefield District. Nova and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust deliver Live Well Wakefield, which is commissioned by Wakefield Council and Wakefield’s seven Primary Care Networks.

**How to apply**

Please note this post requires an Enhanced DBS Check to be carried out.

Closing date: Monday 23 June at 5pm

Interviews are currently planned for: Thursday 3 July

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: Up to £24,570.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 23/06/2025



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