Project Assistant - ESR Development

Job summary

We are looking for a Project Assistant with well-developed IT and ESR skills to join a project team tasked with system development following the merger of the 2 ESR accounts for the NCA. The post is a fixed term contract until 31st December 2024.

The PeopleInformation Systems team provide a service for the whole of the NCA. We manage the Electronic Staff Records System (ESR) which holds HR, training and payroll information for all the staff employed across the Trust.

You will work as part of a dynamic team supporting the expansion and delivery of the ESR and Financial Ledger Alignment work across the NCA.

The People Information Systems Team is based at Whitney Court, Oldham. The office is close to the centre of Oldham and has good access to public transport links and there is an on-site car park.

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Main duties of the job

We provide full training to team membersand once training has been completed are able to offer the opportunity of amix of both office based and home working. IT is provided to support this.

The post holders will work closely with finance and a wide range of stakeholders including senior leaders and front-line practitioners across the NCA to ensure a robust process for the setting up and ongoing maintenance of establishment control within ESR to reflect ledger. This will support the production of vacancy reporting information from ESR at a variety of levels in the organisation.

This includes working with support from the ESR National Team to enhance ESR by taking advantage of available functionality including setting up an establishment control and review process. Working with relevant staff across the NCA to standardise and cleanse data in ESR will form a further part of the role.

Previous experience in an ESR based role will be an advantage and a high level of IT and data manipulation skills will be essential.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk