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Apprentice Health Roster Support Assistant

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Working Full Time: 37.5 Hours Per Week

Would you like to start an exciting career as an Apprentice HealthRoster Assistant within the NHS whilst achieving a nationally recognised apprenticeship qualification?

Do you want a paid job with great prospects to grow and develop your skills? If the answer is YES then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

The Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who is interested in a HeathRoster Apprenticeship role within the Nursing Workfore Team at The Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust.

The apprenticeship is a work based training programme where you will be able to develop your skills, including English and Maths, and gain a nationally recognised qualification in Business Administration.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the HealthRoster Team. Working within the Central Nursing Workforce Team you will provide administrative support to the eRoster Team to ensure successful delivery of an eRoster system.

You will be IT confident and proficient in the use of microsoft office, specifically Excel.

You will be naturally intuative, an excellent communicator and able to adapt to a varity of tasks.

Outgoing, sociable with a problem solving approach and able to demonstrate a 'can do' attitude.

In return and in addition to completing your apprenticeship, you will recieve support with gaining Allocate HealthRoster Accreditation and your continuous professional development as well as the experiance of working within a multi discipline team. You will gain skills and experiance in safer staffing, IT, Payroll and workforce information.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

  • The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
  • Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
  • Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Date posted

20 February 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£10,296 a year pa

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

210-2024-111

Job locations

Countess of Chester Hospital

Liverpool Road

Chester

CH2 1UL


Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE Level or equivalent. Maths and English at "C" or above or equivalent qualification / demonstrable experience.
  • Word Processing and Computer literacy skills to NVQ2 Level.

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Experience of using computerised information systems
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE Level or equivalent. Maths and English at "C" or above or equivalent qualification / demonstrable experience.
  • Word Processing and Computer literacy skills to NVQ2 Level.

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Experience of using computerised information systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countess of Chester Hospital

Liverpool Road

Chester

CH2 1UL


Employer's website

https://www.coch.nhs.uk/working-with-us.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countess of Chester Hospital

Liverpool Road

Chester

CH2 1UL


Employer's website

https://www.coch.nhs.uk/working-with-us.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Workforce Systems and Deployment

Emma Davis

edavis5@nhs.net

01244364165

Date posted

20 February 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£10,296 a year pa

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

210-2024-111

Job locations

Countess of Chester Hospital

Liverpool Road

Chester

CH2 1UL


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