Project Support Officer

The Opportunity

Salary: £30,296 to £33,024 per annum

Contract Type: Fixed term or Secondment until 31 March 2025

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home

Interview date: w/c 22nd April 2024

The substance misuse housing support service is a pilot project funded through a fixed term grant issued by the Office for Health Inequalities. The pilot will test the efficacy of a targeted support to adults who are drug or alcohol dependant who are homeless (including those in temporary accommodation) and those who are at risk of losing their tenancy.

As the Project Support Officer, you will support the housing support team and the program manager. The role includes direct involvement in an interesting and diverse work plan. In addition to supporting the team through triaging and responding to referrals, producing performance reports, including end user quality audits, and monitoring the use of a personalised budget.

You will also support the design and roll out of a training program for housing staff and support the program manager in preparing reports and coordinating the projects governance group.

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

What are we looking for?

• You will need to be able to work quickly, accurately, and proactively to deliver high quality project management support to the Consultants in Public Health and managers across a variety of topics.
• You will also be required to analyse varied and complex information / statistics, so focus and attention to detail are requisite.
• You will be expected to use your initiative to make informed decisions when unanticipated problems are presented, for example producing recommendations which may be amended by a senior manager.
• You will need to ensure that matters are dealt with efficiently and appropriately, prioritising your workload in order to respond.
• At times, you may be dealing with highly sensitive matters and confidentiality will be essential.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05090.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Matt Stonely (Team Leader – Housing Support, Substance Misuse) at Matt.Stonely@westsussex.gov.uk. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

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Job Reference: CAFHE05090