Job summary
Employer heading
Business Administration Apprentice
NHS AfC: Band 3 Annex 21
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We are looking for a hard-working and enthusiastic individual, with good planning and organisational skills, to provide confidential and effective administrative support across the Delivery, Operations & Business (DOB) Team.
Responding to emails from generic mailboxes, updating databases, and communicating with key internal/external stakeholders are essential to the role. The postholder will demonstrate good practice and a willingness to learn, whilst following appropriate processes to contribute towards continuously improving individual and team performance.
Good communication skills are required, as the successful candidate will be a first point of contact for the team and liaise with members of the wider Workforce, Training & Education (WT&E) directorate. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring all information is communicated in a professional and timely manner.
The postholder must be committed to actively championing NHSE values and behaviours.
Main duties of the job
· Supporting the team with diary management including scheduling meetings
· Supporting internal & external meetings and events as appropriate
· Supporting online events and meetings such as online workshops
· Providing support to projects, such as collating resources, creating surveys, and creating project documents
· Collating data etc. and uploading/storing as appropriate
· Working from a generic mailbox and in line with instructions provided
· Supporting the work of the team (e.g. senior management meetings, record keeping) as appropriate
· Organising and contributing to team meetings
· Liaison with relevant stakeholders, wider team members and managers
· Photocopying and word processing duties
· Ensuring electronic files are maintained
· Maintaining contact lists
· Answering phone calls on behalf of the team, signposting and taking messages as appropriate
· Responding to email and telephone queries
· Provide appropriate support to colleagues and managers as requested in line with NHS England values and behaviours and the functions of the team and provide cover for colleagues as necessary to ensure business continuity
· Share good practice within the team and follow appropriate guidance and processes as instructed.
· Contribute to efforts within the team to continually improve performance
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Act as first point of contact for the business team within the directorate, dealing with routine and specialist enquiries in a pleasant and helpful manner, communicating relevant information to stakeholders, referring to others as appropriate.
- Answer telephone calls, taking messages and passing on information accurately to the relevant departments/person.
- Responsible for ensuring that general office supply levels are maintained and secured appropriately.
- Responsible for sorting of all incoming post and ensure distribution to the relevant departments, ensuring that all out going post is documented, recorded delivery and where directed post is sent recorded delivery, where applicable.
- Promote the image of the department, checking that notices and leaflets are up to date and well presented.
- Ensure that all complaints, comments and suggestions are dealt with appropriately, in accordance with policy, resolving where possible and escalating to line manager when appropriate.
- Responsible for photocopying and word processing documents, letters, emails, minutes and reports when required.
- Able to work on own initiative and unsupervised, within defined policies and procedures to set timescales.
- Responsible for organising meetings for the team and planning any administrative work as required.
- Demonstrate office systems and department requirements to new starters.
- Inputting into, monitoring and printing reports from computerised systems.
- To carry out other appropriate delegated duties as required
- Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments, the organisation in defining the strategy, in order to support delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualifications in GCSE English Language and Mathematics, NVQ, ECDL or equivalent level of knowledge
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Experience of working in an administrative environment using computerised data systems.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word and Excel.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a health care environment.
- Awareness of a range of Health Services provisions.
- Knowledge of NHS issues
- Understanding of Data Protection legislation, i.e. requirements and confidentiality
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Uses a range of communications channels to build relationships
- Provides and receives routine information and disseminates to work colleagues or external contacts as appropriate
- Good levels of accuracy and attention to details
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Good timekeeping
- Ability to work as part of a team and to deal with enquiries and other matters which are routine but able to refer non routine enquiries to others as appropriate.
- Flexible approach to work with willingness to work across the team
- Clear communicator with good writing, data entry and telephone skills ensuring accuracy
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team, note taking is desirable
- Problem solving skills
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workload to set deadlines
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
Other
Essential criteria
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust and an awareness of information governance requirements and data protection.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerie Peek
- Job title
- Business and Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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