Project Support Manager

Provide CIC; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job description

Main area Project Support Manager Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 11 months (Until 30 June 2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working available) Job ref 828-PROVIDE3463

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide HQ Town Colchester Salary £29,970 - £36,483 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 16/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

The Project Support Manager will provide project management, leadership and support to Transformation and Innovation projects within the Provide Group.

They will be responsible for managing projects from initiation through to completion and beyond, the projects may range from departmental projects to group-wide projects, sometimes crossing into other external organisations. The Project Support Manager will lead regular project meetings, resolving issues as they arise and escalating these to Senior Project Managers or Directors as required.

Main duties of the job

1. Take lead responsibility for providing assurance to the Director for Programmes and Digital Development. This will include the production of regular highlight reports and project plans.
2. Ensure projects risks, opportunities and issues are appropriately managed and resolved or escalated and lessons learned are captured.
3. Provide advice and potential solutions to mitigate project risk, learning is maximised, and best practice is adopted.
4. Ensure that project documentation is up to date and progress reports are provided in a timely manner.
5. Production of Business Cases, Benefits Analysis and other project documentation as required.
6. Responsible for the development and maintenance of databases required for regular reports.
7. To facilitate effective liaison and relationships with people at all levels, including a broad range of key internal and external stakeholder organisations.
8. Arrange and participate in relevant internal and external meetings which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing assistance to the members.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the Job Description and Person Specification document for the detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Meets the essential qualification criteria
• Meets the desirable qualification criteria

Experience

• Meets the essential experience criteria
• Meets the desirable experience criteria

Knowledge

• Meets the essential knowledge criteria
• Meets the desirable knowledge criteria

FURTHER INFORMATION:

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application?

To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.

Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or [e-mail].

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

SuccessfulApplicant:

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.

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Name Christopher Wright Job title Director Programmes and Digital Development Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 03003039999