Main area Admistration Administrator Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours
30 hours per week (Hours to be worked flexibly across the week Mon - Fri) Job ref 270-TG145-ACS
Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site H Block Dantre Hospital Town Daventry Salary £24,625 - £25,674 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18 / 07 / 2025 08 : 00
Senior Team Administrator
Band 3
Job overview
The Countywide Diabetes Multi – Disciplinary Team (MDT) promotes care closer to home, facilitating a seamless service between acute and primary care and avoiding acute hospital admissions and accelerating safe discharge. The delivery of high quality care, efficiently and cost effectively, in accordance with the Northamptonshire Diabetes Care Pathway. The focus will be on enabling people with diabetes to remain healthy by working collaboratively to promote self-management and avoid acute and long-term complications of diabetes.
To enable the service to operate efficiently and transform to meet ever evolving expectations in diabetes care and its administrative management, confidence to use and develop skill in technology and e-systems is essential. It is therefore expected that the successful candidate will undertake an administration & management or data management apprenticeship depending on training needs identified at the end of the 6 month probation period.
Applicants must have proven experience of working within a very busy office environment and be able to evidence how they manage workloads and deadlines. They must have proven experience of all Office applications including Outlook and Excel. They must be able to demonstrate their adaptability and willingness to learn new tasks and work within a very busy team / office environment.
Office base will be decided with the successful candidate but with the expectation to travel across the county when needed.
Main duties of the job
Working with colleagues be responsible for the day to day management of referrals and patient registration. Coordinate triage with clinical colleagues. Take shared responsibility for the administration of patient and staff education programmes. To do this the successful candidate will need to have / develop;
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Behaviours and values
skills and abilities
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile / home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit : DBS Update Service : applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.
Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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