Job summary
Are you an exceptional administrator, who is interested in using your skills to help people to experience great NHS care? The new 10-year plan for the NHS puts community-based care at the heart of health transformation - meaning there's never been a better time to join us.
An exciting administration opportunity has arisen within East Kent Cardiac and Respiratory Nursing Services. You will work alongside a team of four administrators within the remote admin hub to provide a service across East Kent. This is a hybrid role based partly from home and partly from the office depending on assigned duties via a rota over a two-week period.
This post will be mainly based in Ramsgate with some flexibility to work from other bases when required.
Main duties of the job
Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That's where you come in.
We're always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you'll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide admin support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams.
We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn't a requirement for this role you'll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.
The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you'll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.
Additional Working Pattern: Four days working between Mon-Fri
About us
One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated 'outstanding' by the CQC. We've got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.
We've signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we're delivering our pledge to be the best employer
Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we're reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 2nd November.
Find out more about the community difference here.
Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity
Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 2nd November.
Find out more about the community difference here.
Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity
Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 2 A/AS levels (any grade) NVQ level3, BTEC diplomas, Certificates and Awards, International Baccalaureate diploma or equivalent or Level 3 qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in office systems, with advanced use of Microsoft Office, i.e. MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel. Sound judgement and logical approach to complex situations, with ability to determine solutions.
Desirable
- NHS specific IT system experience Understanding of NHS in Community Services Supervision of staff Basic experience of a financial system (preferably Business World).
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven standard of word processing skills, with a high standard of presentation and accuracy
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision and be innovative applying logic in resolving problems
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- The ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional situations and discussions objectively and with emotional intelligence
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to travel to diverse sites
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 2 A/AS levels (any grade) NVQ level3, BTEC diplomas, Certificates and Awards, International Baccalaureate diploma or equivalent or Level 3 qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in office systems, with advanced use of Microsoft Office, i.e. MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel. Sound judgement and logical approach to complex situations, with ability to determine solutions.
Desirable
- NHS specific IT system experience Understanding of NHS in Community Services Supervision of staff Basic experience of a financial system (preferably Business World).
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven standard of word processing skills, with a high standard of presentation and accuracy
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision and be innovative applying logic in resolving problems
Practical/Intellectual skills
Essential
- The ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional situations and discussions objectively and with emotional intelligence
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to travel to diverse sites
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.
