Apprentice Administration Support

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Administration Support in the Children's Community Administration Team. You will work closely with the administration and clinical teams, providing essential administrative support in a busy environment.

You will be completing an in house Apprenticeship alongside your role meaning you will gain extra qualifications to support your future career opportunities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic team player to integrate into the current team and provide an efficient and effective service within a timely manner. Attention to detail is a must, along with excellent communication skills.

The post might close earlier if sufficient amount of applications received.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include the consistent provision of administration support to the team. You will ensure the high standard of administrative service is consistently delivered by undertaking all required tasks and activities on a daily basis.

You will utilise the required technology/hospital systems that are introduced and support other team members to do so to deliver an efficient administrative service.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and responsibilities of this role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• At least 3 GCSEs or equivalent at A to C Grade to include maths and English

Knowledge

Desirable

• NHS experience in a similar role
• 18 week pathway/PTL/RTT

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of working in a similar role Band 2 or equivalent
• Use of Microsoft packages, including Word, Excel and Outlook

Desirable

• Practical experience of working in a clinical support role