Administrator, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 December 2025

OPAC (Older People and Adult Community Services) administration service is recruiting a Site Support Administrator to be part of an exciting and innovative remodel that's going to provide essential administration support to our clinical services enabling them to focus on delivering outstanding patient care.

Do you enjoy making a difference? Are you craving job satisfaction? Do you want to be part of an award-winning team? If so, this is the job for you.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, friendly, positive, professional outlook, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure and at times alone and have a proven administrative background.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

The post holder will be providing site administration support to the older peoples & adult community service's clinicians of varying professions, working in a team of 8 Administrators covering our community base sites across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.

The main principle of the Administration service is to ensure the provision of a professional & competent service to enable our clinical colleagues to concentrate on patient care.

We aim to do so by ensuring professional leadership, excellent training & development opportunities for admin staff & standardised processes.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

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.

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Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Weekly Stores/Dressings and pathology Orders for DNs (light manual handling included)
• Order Stationary
• Ordering of Toners & Ink Printer
• Ordering Non-Cat/Stock Items
• Ordering VAC dressings / Tena
• Archiving
• Buffer Stock checking / turning on monthly to keep on server.
• Printed resources to be made available within the teams, i.e., yellow folders, leaflets etc.
• Asset Management Register Maintenance
• Arrange for Clinical Engineering to visit hub/base
• Arrange for equipment to be sent to Clinical engineering for repair maintenance, and asset registration.
• PPE Stock levels and audit (not all sites)
• Fridge Temperatures (not all sites)

• Educated to GCSE standard at 4-9 or A-C grade including English.
• High level of written and spoken English.
• Level 2 in Business Administration or equivalent experience

• Experience of working in a busy and fast paced environment
• Working with multiple people of various roles.
• Experience of planning and organising own workload
• Experience of administration duties & tasks
• Experience of procurement processes
• Experience in using computer programmes including health care IT systems.

• Clear understanding of the importance of confidentiality
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Knowledge of Data Protection Act

• Ability to travel to other Trust sites, as required

• Excellent customer/patient care skills via written & verbal in person & telephone methods
• Good organisational skills
• Effective communicator & ability to adopt an appropriate style & method of communication.
• Attention to detail & accuracy of work.
• Capable of working independently, demonstrating initiative and reliability during periods of lone working.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to work under occasional pressure/stress
• Flexible approach to work
• Professional attitude.
• Friendly and approachable

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission…