Business Support Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role provides comprehensive data management and administrative support to Regional Delivery Directors within NHS England's Estates Division, specifically for the North East & Yorkshire region. The post holder will offer high-quality project, service, and administrative support, including information and analysis, to enable effective use of data and technology for various initiatives. Key responsibilities include undertaking project analysis, reporting on data, and supporting resource allocation.
Key responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Associate Director of National Estates Delivery and wider teams.
- Undertake information/project analysis and report on data.
- Maintain administrative and information resources, including files, spreadsheets, and trackers.
- Organise and arrange meetings, events, and travel, including minute taking and diary management.
- Assist in preparing presentations and coordinate the preparation and issuing of reports.
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Knowledge of project principles
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters.
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Project management skills.
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
- Ability to work without supervision. Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Previously worked in similar position within the public sector.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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NHS England
Business Support Officer
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
To provide comprehensive, effective and efficient data management and administrative support to the Regional Delivery Directors. The role will also support the building of a shared approach with colleagues in strategic planning and Delivery function.
As a Business Support Officer (North East and Yorkshire), the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the North East & Yorkshire region for NHS Estates Division
In particular the post holder will:
- Provide high quality project, service, initiative and administrative support including information and analysis.
- Undertake reporting and analysis of information to support deliver
- The post holder is a key member of the team whose overarching goal is to enable, promote and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to improve, inform and support a portfolio of projects, services, and initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Key Functional Responsibilities
Project Management**
- **** Undertake information/project analysis
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects to provide information/analyst advice and support
- Analyse and report on data and monitor the processing of data and informati
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