NHS AfC: Band 2
Main area: Obstetrics
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday on a rota basis between hours 8:00 and 18:00)
Job ref: 349-SMH-6830187*
Site: St Mary's Hospital (occasional rotation across other MFT sites)
Town: Manchester
Salary: £23,615 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for someone to work in a busy, customer service based role that has excellent telephone, receptionist experience and communication skills to join our Administration team at Saint Mary’s Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
We work alongside the Midwives and Consultants to ensure patients receive the best care possible and we are looking for someone to bring a positive approach to our working environment.
Successful candidates must have excellent IT skills and experience working in a customer service or healthcare environment as you will be expected to use IT and communication equipment associated with call handling and data input. You should demonstrate high levels of personal commitment to facilitate the delivery of a patient focused service.
Flexibility is a must as there is an expectation to rotate across other MFT sites during times of annual leave and sickness.
Main duties of the job
You will need to work flexibly and apply a methodical approach to a varying workload. Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team are essential. A friendly and conscientious outlook is also required as is the ability to liaise with all levels of staff and patients.
* The service runs 08:00 until 18:00 Monday-Friday
* Shift patterns are within the above hours
Although this role is based at Oxford Road Campus, there is potential to cover all areas across the Managed Clinical Services (Oxford Road Campus/ Lance Burn Health Centre/Trafford General Hospital / Wythenshawe Hospital).
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our over 28,000 workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity.
We’re also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research & innovation through the introduction of Hive; our new Electronic Patient Record system, launching in September 2022.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
* Good level of education
Previous experience
Essential criteria
* Customer service experience
* High volume telephone experience
* Basic office skills
* Team working
Desirable criteria
* PAS
Skills
Essential criteria
* Shows a positive attitude and adaptability to training
* Problem solving
* Communication skills
* IT skills
Attributes
Essential criteria
* Positive
* Professional
* Flexible, adaptable and self-motivated
* Ability to work both on your own initiative and as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
* Admin Assistant Band 2 Job description (PDF, 392.6KB)
* Admin Assistant Band 2 Person Spec (PDF, 144.6KB)
* Functional Requirements (PDF, 933.5KB)
* Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Karen Taylor
Job title: Administration Team Lead
Email address: karen.taylor3@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 276 5720
Additional information
Laura Connelly
laura.connelly@mft.nhs.uk
0161 701 8766 #J-18808-Ljbffr