Overview

This position is funded by a grant from My University Hospitals Sussex, the dedicated charity of the Trust. You'll serve as a valued link between the Charity and project, and will be an ambassador for the Charity in promoting its missions and values at events, conferences and when engaging with both internal and external audiences. Do you bring strong coordination and delivery skills and want to help deliver change that improves NHS staff experience and patient care? We are recruiting a proactive and compassionate Project Support Manager to join a time-limited programme (approx. 18 months) funded by My University Hospitals Sussex Charity. This ambitious and high-impact programme supports a series of targeted engagement and wellbeing initiatives for key staff groups, aligned with our NHS Trust's People Plan and national goals to improve population health and tackle inequalities in care and outcomes. You'll work in partnership with a range of stakeholders to deliver events, communications, and collaborative improvement activities. These are designed to support staff engagement, increase retention, and strengthen our organisation's capacity to listen to and act on lived experience. You'll take the lead in planning and coordination, enabling delivery across the programme and supporting robust evaluation.

Responsibilities

• A confident communicator with excellent planning and organisation skills
• Able to navigate complexity and ambiguity while keeping people motivated
• Experienced in delivering multi-stakeholder projects or improvement work
• Passionate about improving the NHS as a place to work and receive care
• Work with the wider My UHSussex Charity and Leadership, OD and Engagement teams; collaborate with internal and external partners including national speakers and system leaders to deliver events and campaigns
• Help ensure high visibility and wide engagement across the Trust, working across teams and services
• Lead planning and coordination across the programme and support evaluation

Benefits

• Flexible working (including hybrid)
• Support to access management and leadership development programmes and activities
• Opportunities to shape wider engagement and development work with My UHSussex Charity
• A supportive team committed to improving staff and patient experience

If you're committed to helping our workplaces become more engaging, inclusive and healthy places to work, we'd love to hear from you.

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves. As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.