administrator

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health provider in Shrewsbury is seeking an administrator to join their pulmonary rehabilitation team. You will support healthcare professionals by managing administrative tasks, facilitating communication within the team, and ensuring efficient operation of clinics. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential. This role offers a chance to contribute positively to patients' lives through community health services. Applicants are encouraged from diverse backgrounds and must be prepared to work collaboratively within the healthcare team.

Qualifications

• Experience in clerical or administrative roles.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and accurately.

Responsibilities

• Assist with caseload administration for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service.
• Perform clerical duties including filing, photocopying, and data inputting.
• Handle telephone duties and manage communications effectively.
• Organise sessions and appointments for clinicians.
• Take minutes for team meetings.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organisational skills

Ability to work flexibly

Tools

IT and word processing skills

Job description

About Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within a well-established community pulmonary rehabilitation team here in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, supporting patients to make positive life choices that enhance their lives and health. We are looking for an administrator to join our team.

As part of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team you will be expected to work independently in liaison with the Clinical Lead, physiotherapists, nurses and rehabilitation technicians to assist them in delivering care to patients in our community.

You will work alongside and build relationships with the Community Respiratory Nursing teams, local GP surgeries, secondary care Respiratory colleagues and other community teams. The successful applicant will demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to work flexibly within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service with caseload administration
• To undertake routine clerical, IT and word processing, data inputting, filing, photocopying and general office duties
• Telephone duties, ensuring that all calls are received in an efficient and helpful manner with messages recorded accurately and actioned in a timely manner
• Ordering of stores, stamps and equipment and maintaining relevant records
• Dealing with routine correspondence and enquiries on own initiative
• To ensure the timely distribution of mail, email and correspondence within the team.
• Organise any sessions / appointments for clinicians
• Follow up on non‑attendees and defaulters of their scheduled appointments as requested by the healthcare professional
• Set up Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinics and programmes for clinicians
• Minute taking for team meetings

About the Trust

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.