Specialist Palliative Care Administrative Assistant | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Palliative Care Administrative Assistant | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work closely with a small and supportive professional administrative team

• Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies.
• Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures.
• Support workloads within the speciality.
• Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information.
• Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff.
• Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings.
• Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).

Support with:

• Organising meetings including minute taking.
• Letter writing.
• Data collection and reporting.
• Preparation of patient information &Registering patients .

Support for audit

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

• To provide efficient and comprehensive administrative support to the Peterborough and Stamford’s Specialist Palliative Care Community and Hospital Teams.
• To provide efficient and comprehensive administrative support to the Clinical Psychologist working with the Specialist Palliative Care Team.
• To perform all allocated clerical tasks required to meet the needs of the service.

The post holder will:-

• Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies.
• Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures.
• Support workloads within the speciality.
• Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information.
• Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff.
• Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings.
• Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).
• To undergo training as necessary to meet the needs of new developments within the specialist service.
• Managing individual workload in order to meet project deadlines assigned to the post holder.
• Adaptable to change management.
• Excellent team player with good communication skills.
• Enthusiastic, motivated, ability to prioritise and work independently.
• To support the Administrative Team Leader for the Specialist Nursing Team

This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Aug 2026