Business Support Officer

Job summary

**Please note this vacancy is only accepting applications from current staff members of the ICB***

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in healthcare and improving patient outcomes? Do you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where your organisational and project management skills can shine? If so, we invite you to apply for the secondment role of Business Support Officer (Band 5) within our Local Delivery Team at the ICB.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a proactive, organised, and dedicated team member who can hit the ground running and make a positive contribution from day one. The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in project coordination, administration, or a similar role, ideally within healthcare or a related field.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across diverse teams.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise workload.
• A keen interest in healthcare transformation and improving outcomes for patients.
• Proficiency in using standard office software for project management and reporting.

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.