Project Officer

**Project Officer**: 4 posts 37.5 hours per post

Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of people in Cumbria? Do you enjoy working with people and supporting them to transform the way they work? If so, we’d love to hear from you

An exciting opportunity exists within our Digital Programmes team, liaising with our health partners, including acute hospitals, community services and GP practices. The Project Officer will be a key member of the team driving a transformational IT modernisation programme, supporting:

- maintenance of project documents and data
- user groups
- project coordination

If you have strong administration and organisation skills, other skills can be learnt in post. You may have transferable skills from other roles outside project management and will be supported in the role and with your development by our team of project management professionals. Training opportunities include project management principles, risk and issue management, process mapping, benefits management and communications.

Whether you are an aspiring Project Manager or someone who wants to be more involved in delivering digital healthcare improvements and believe you have what we are looking for, we would be delighted to hear from you.

This role involvesassisting programme and project managerson one or more digital programmes / projects. This assistance may include:

- Support the development and maintenance of project documents and data collection systems
- Gather, interpret and present information
- Help introduce user-led design to projects
- Work with user groups
- Provide project coordination
- Administration of project / programme meetings
- Providing support to users

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourpolicyfor eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; fu