Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 310-CORP-7065121
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Elizabeth House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Medical Workforce Administrator
Band 3
Job overview
We are seeking a highly organised administrator to join our Medical Workforce Team. As the administrator in the team, you will play a vital role in supporting other members of the Medical Workforce Team in addition to the Medical Staff in the Trust.
The Medical Workforce Team offer a highly effecient and effective service for the Trust, handling queries from senior clinicians, medical staff, service teams and external organisations. The team are responsible for a wide variation of tasks, some of which including medical recruitment, booking and onboarding agency locum doctors, medical on call rotas, managing absences, resident doctor rotations and ensuring all medical staff meet necessary compliance (i.e. Appraisal and Revalidation).
This is a hybrid working role but you are required to on site as and when required.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide administrative assistance on an ad-hoc basis as and when required.
2. Prepare and update as and when required medical rotas and circulate these to all relevant staff.
3. Provide administrative assistance in ensuring all medical doctors are fit to practice and up to date with appraisals and revalidation.
4. Ensure agency locum staff are managed and requested, often at short notice. Develop and maintain a system for agency locums and bank staff.
5. Responsible for keeping absence records up to date for all medical staff, this includes sickness, annual leave, study leave and special leave.
6. Assist with the recruitment and onboarding process for medics, this could include substantive staff, locum staff and junior doctors.
7. Responsible for the taking of minutes in meetings involving senior clinicians and board members. To create an official record of decisions, actions, and responsibilities during these meetings.
8. Maintain the filing system for personal records
9. To participate in ad-hoc Medical Workforce projects.
10. Responsible for the induction of new colleagues into department
11. To provide HR administrative support for the implementation across the Trust of specified national and Trust initiatives and projects.
12. Respond to enquiries in person, by email and over the telephone.
13. To undertake other secretarial and clerical tasks as required e.g. opening post
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Communication
1. Liaise with internal/external customers, agencies and colleagues
2. Information relayed can be sensitive and/or confidential
3. Communication will be verbal or via email, fax, web or text
Analytical and Judgemental Skills / Freedom to Act
4. Give basic advice/information as appropriate
5. Works within established procedures and practices and using own initiatives, seeking advice if necessary
6. Where queries arise, consult the Recruitment Project Manager, Recruitment Specialist or Recruitment Administrator
Planning and Organisational Skills
7. Prioritise workload according to demands of the department
8. Take instruction on workload priority from Recruitment Project Manager & Recruitment Specialist
9. Plan working day effectively to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met
10. Will need to work flexibly as part of the team
Physical Skills
11. Standard keyboard skills
Responsibility for Patients / Clients
12. Contact with patients will be incidental in a clinical setting, but will be expected to encourage clinical and corporate teams to employ service users as part of Trust policy
Policy and Service Responsibilities
13. Will be encouraged to suggest and implement changes to the department to improve efficiencies and productivity
Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources
14. Personal duty of care for all equipment and resources used
15. Maintenance of Medical Workforce and Medical Education related resources
Responsibility for Staff
16. Participate in the induction and training of medical inductions. Support colleagues who join the team with their onboarding process.
Responsibility for Information
17. Responsible for the input of data onto the systems to maintain audit trail
18. Ensure confidentiality of information at all times
Physical, Mental & Emotional Effort
19. Work will include a mix of sitting, standing and walking
20. Attention to detail will be required in order to maintain records accurately and to ensure that documents sent from the department have the correct information
21. Rare exposure to emotional circumstances
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Five GCSES Grade A*-C (or equivalent). Must include Maths & English
- NVQ level 3 Business Administration or equivalent relevant qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- CIPD qualification or working towards a CIPD qualification level 3
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working in an office environment.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in a Medical Workforce / Human Resources Department
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Flexible attitude and the ability to forge new relationships with ease.
- Ability to keep up to date with Trust Policies and Procedures
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and face to face with a wide range of stakeholders
- Knowledge and understanding of Microsoft apps including Word, Excel and Outlook
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Trac and NHS Jobs.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Thomas
- Job title
- Medical Workforce Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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