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Job summary

Main area
Corporate
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref
210-2024-296-A
Employer
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Countess of Chester Hospital
Town
Chester
Salary
£22,383 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Health Roster Support Assistant

Band 2

Job overview

Working Full Time: 37.5 Hours per week

The postholder will provide administrative support to the eRoster team to implement and monitor the delivery of a consistent, efficient and cost effective eRostering system across the Trust.

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 eRostering 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 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.

 

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • Experience of using computerised information systems

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma Davis
Job title
Head of Workforce Systems and Deployment
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01244364165
Additional information

Connor McCann

HealthRoster Administrator

01244363936

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