Project Assistant

The Project Assistant plays a key role in supporting the Staff Health & Wellbeing and Colleague Experience portfolios within the Organisational Development Service. The role focuses on delivering high-quality administrative, coordination and communication support that helps create a positive workplace culture and enhances staff experience across the Trust. You will act as a first point of contact for the Inclusion and Colleague Experience Team, managing shared inboxes, responding to queries, organising meetings, taking minutes, maintaining records, and supporting the delivery of wellbeing, engagement and inclusion initiatives. The role also involves coordinating events, assisting with staff surveys, supporting internal communications, managing social media messaging for wellbeing campaigns, and helping facilitate key engagement activities such as focus groups, welcome sessions and long-service celebrations. This is a varied and fast-paced role suited to someone highly organised, confident communicating with staff at all levels, and passionate about improving colleague experience. You will work collaboratively across departments, contribute to project delivery, and help ensure staff have access to the resources, support and opportunities that enable them to thrive at work.,

• Act as the first point of contact for the Inclusion and Colleague Experience Team, managing shared inboxes and responding to routine queries.
• Provide comprehensive administrative support, including organising meetings, preparing agendas, taking minutes and maintaining accurate action logs.
• Coordinate wellbeing and engagement events, training sessions, roadshows and focus groups, ensuring venues, materials and logistics are well managed.
• Support staff engagement activities such as the NHS Staff Survey, People Pulse, corporate welcome sessions and long-service awards.
• Maintain and update departmental records, databases and filing systems, ensuring information is accurate and secure.
• Assist with internal communications, including drafting wellbeing newsletters, updating intranet pages and supporting social media messaging for campaigns.
• Liaise with internal teams and external providers to help deliver wellbeing, inclusion and engagement initiatives.
• Provide general project support, helping monitor actions, deadlines and progress across key programmes.
  
  We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice