Business Support Administrator (Communications special projects) in Sunderland

Business Support Administrator (Communications special projects)

NHS AfC: Band 4

Main area Business Support Administrator Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 134-8315548KD

Site Pemberton House Town Sunderland Salary £28,392 - £31,157 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59

Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development.

Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.

Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Supportive team environment
• Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work

Job overview

Did you know that physical inactivity remains one of the biggest contributors to poor health, with around 1 in 4 adults doing less than 30 minutes of physical activity each week?

Movement 26.2 is a new national movement designed to help people build more activity into everyday life, starting with walking. It supports the prevention ambitions set out in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan by making physical activity feel simple and achievable.

Main duties of the job

You will support the planning and coordination of a communications and engagement approach that mobilises NHS organisations across the country to support the Movement 26.2 programme. This will include developing plans, core messaging, materials and toolkits, ensuring they complement existing prevention, personalised care, neighbourhood health and workforce wellbeing activity.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Business Support Administrator (Special Projects Marketing and Communications) to support communications, engagement and marketing activities for the Movement 26.2 programme.

This is an exciting role for someone who is looking to pursue a career in communications, engagement and marketing, working on a prominent national programme.

For further information, please contact Simon Clayton, communications and engagement manager on simonclayton@nhs.net .

Person specification

Qualifications

• RSA/NVQ level 3 or equivalent relevant experience
• Significant business support level experience and acquired knowledge of relevant process or procedures.
• Significant experience of providing project/business level support
• Demonstrable level of experience of Microsoft Office package including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and One Note.
• Project based software packages.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
• Microsoft Project

Physical Skills

• Advanced keyboard skills.
• Ability to Independently travel as required to meet the requirements of the role.

The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a riskto the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do nothold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.