Project Support Officer

The Project Support Officer will provide a crucial role in the development and delivery of all projects across the organisation. The Project Management Office (PMO) has responsibility for overseeing and managing the development and role out of all projects across Lancaster Medical Practice. This will be achieved through applying programme management methodologies and risk management approaches to ensure that the senior leaders, and ultimately the Partnership Board, are assured of the progress of the agreed work programmes and that all risks and issues are managed appropriately. The role requires excellent organisational and project support skills, an ability to communicate routine, sensitive, confidential and complex information to staff and managers at all levels within and outside the organisation and an ability to be proactive and take accountability and ownership of the programme management systems and processes which will govern all projects. This role will support the Project Manager by coordinating and managing the systems and processes which will enable the delivery of the work. Working autonomously and proactively, the Project Support Officer will be required to provide project management support using project methodologies and strong administrative skills. The post holders prime responsibility is to ensure that all of the systems and processes support the delivery programmes within the remit of the team, to deliver their agreed objectives.,

• Provide project management support for projects. This may involve supporting business case development, all planning activities, risk and issues management, monitoring and co-ordination of tasks, negotiation and conflict management.
• Ensure adherence to project governance standards, reporting and the deployment of standard methodologies.
• Be a single point of contact for projects and have an archive of information to allow real time reporting and information sharing.
• Be responsible for implementing and maintaining effective programme management systems which will enable good risk management, performance reporting, sharing of best practice, mapping and monitoring interdependencies and escalation of issues.
• Co-ordinates project risks and issues and the corresponding mitigating actions, working with programme and project leads.
• Establish and maintain the project management tools and documentation templates as a resource for the organisation.
• Develop an archive of programme documentation to allow for robust governance and to provide a clear audit trail of progress, decisions and evidence of programme delivery and impact
  
  Lancaster Medical Practice is a large, at-scale, GP provider delivering General Medical Services to around 68,000 patients in Lancaster and surrounding villages. Formed in April 2017 from our successful, legacy practices, Lancaster Medical Practice has continued to evolve to become the strong, high performing Practice it is today, receiving a rating of Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in August 2018.
LMP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All successful candidates will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All staff are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment and will be responsible for safeguarding the interests of children and adults who they come into contact during their work. Please be aware that in the event that we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the post before the closing date. Please note, we are unable to support candidates requiring a skilled worker visa for this post as the Practice is only able to support clinical posts at this time.