Programme Support Officer - Sleaford, United Kingdom - NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
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Are you passionate about reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes?

Would you like an exciting, varied role, working with partners across Lincolnshire's health and care system?

We are expanding our Team and have the following opportunities available:

  • Health Inequalities Improvement Manager (AfC Band 8a)
  • 2 posts
  • Health Inequalities Improvement Facilitators (AfC Band posts
  • Principal Analyst Health Inequalities (AfC Band 8a) 1 post
  • Programme Support Officer (Health Inequalities) (AfC Band post
Health Inequalities is one of NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board's key priorities.

Our Team works in partnership with stakeholders across Lincolnshire to achieve our vision:

To increase life expectancy and quality of life for people living in Lincolnshire and reduce the gap between the healthiest and least healthy populations within our county.

The team's work spans delivery across a wide range of projects including the following areas:

  • Analysing population and community needs, to understand levels of Health Inequalities and direct resources
  • Ensuring fair and equitable access to health and care services.
  • Increasing prevention services
  • Supporting behaviour change
  • Managing risk factors e.g. high blood pressure or diabetes
  • Tackling variations in the quality and outcomes of care
  • Commissioning services to improve health and wellbeing
  • Influencing the determinants of health in local communities
  • Embedding a system approach to Health Inequalities
Programme Support Officer (Health Inequalities)


Working as an integral member of the team you'll support the Health Inequalities Team with project and programme administrative support.

The work will be varied. You'll be supporting a wide range of interesting workstreams and projects, as well as leading pieces of work yourself.

You'll also be responsible for ensuring information about our programme plans and projects are maintained within our project management database (Aspyre) as well as tracking and reporting progress against these plans.


You'll be an experienced administrator with experience of working within a busy project team, be educated to diploma level or have an equivalent demonstrable level of experience and be able to communicate and create relationships at all levels within and outside of Lincolnshire ICS.


NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services.

We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge.

We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme: system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.


The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties.

Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB's objectives and financial sustainability.

  • To work as part of the Health Inequalities Programme team and wider health care team in delivering the operational and strategic objectives of the Health Inequalities programme
  • To undertake specific tasks as required to support the delivery of Health Inequalities transformation projects and plans
  • To develop a working knowledge and understanding of the Health Inequalities programme, the development of the work programme, stakeholders, wider communities and services
  • To support the development of effective local arrangements for involving patients, members of the public and other stakeholders in the Health Inequalities programme
  • To provide support to the Health Inequalities Programme team to deliver sustainable and systematic improvements to reduce Health Inequalities within Lincolnshire.
  • To Lead and support senior managers in delivering projects and initiatives within the programme.
  • To develop strong relationships with key partners, representing the Health Inequalities Team in order to ensure delivery of key objectives as set out in the maternity transformation plan
  • To support the work-stream leads and project managers in developing delivery plans, adopting a programme management approach with key milestones and measures of success.
  • To ensure strong engagement with key stakeholders across Lincolnsh
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