Administrator for School Nursing

Sirona-Care-; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Annual leave

Discounts

Benefits leaflet

Job summary

Sirona care & health CIC is seeking an Administrator to join the School Nursing Service. You will deliver comprehensive administrative support, liaise with families and health professionals, and help ensure timely appointments and information dissemination.

Based in Weston-super-Mare, the role requires good GCSE English, NVQ2 in Business Administration, and proficiency with Microsoft 365. The working week is 37.5 hours, 9-5, Monday to Friday, with NHS AfC salary and pension benefits.

Qualifications

• Good standard of education at GCSE level or equivalent to include English language
• NVQ2 in Business Administration

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the School Nursing team and act as a link across staff, schools, and other bodies.
• Liaise with families and health professionals to arrange appointments for the school nursing team.
• Data entry of information into pre-populated templates and systems.
• Photocopying, filing and other admin duties to ensure efficient office running.
• Organise and coordinate booking of premises for meetings and support other administrators as needed.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Data entry

Education

GCSE English

NVQ2 in Business Administration

Tools

Microsoft 365

EMIS

Connecting Care

Job description

Main area Administration Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5.) Job ref 083-8199358-HO

Employer Sirona care & health CIC Employer type NHS Site Badger House Town Weston-super-Mare Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 15/09/2026

Band 3

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.

Job overview

We are looking for an Administrator to join our School Nursing Service!

Through delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, our School Nursing Service work in partnership with children, families and professionals to promote health and wellbeing by supporting children, young people and their carers with their physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing, and by equipping young people with the resources they need to make healthy lifestyle choices throughout life.

The School Nursing Service supports all school aged (5-19) children and young people across Bristol, working in partnership with multi-disciplinary health teams within community and acute services, local authority and voluntary sector teams - to deliver a clinically effective, high quality health service to the school aged population, in a variety of settings.

The working hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive administrative support to the School Nursing team. To act as an effective link across CCHP staff, Schools, Children's Social Care, GPs, the general public and other relevant bodies.
• The post requires organisation, attention to detail and initiative to ensure that the best possible care is delivered to children, young people, their families and that targeted tasks are completed on time.
• The post holder will be based in North Somerset at Badger House, and will work closely with administrators in other areas such as Health Visiting, Children's Continence and the Children Looked After and Care Leavers Teams.
• The Post Holder will be responsible for:
• Liaising with families, other health professionals and other agencies to make appointments on behalf of and at the request of the school nursing team.
• Acting as the central information and contact point for parents/ carers, medical and nursing staff and other agencies and disseminating information as appropriate to the school nursing team.
• Data entry of information into pre-populated templates and work based systems.
• Undertaking any necessary photocopying, filing, and other administrative duties to ensure the effective running of the office.
• Arranging, organising and co-ordinating the booking of premises for meetings.
• Working flexibly to support other school nursing team administrators across the area.

Working for our organisation

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it’s about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!
Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of education at GCSE level or equivalent to include English language
• NVQ2 in Business Administration

Experience

• Ability to work unsupervised and prioritise own workload
• Experience of team working
• Experience of excellent communication skills both face to face and on the telephone
• Ability to use Microsoft 365 including Excel and Outlook
• Evidence of high quality written documentation to include letters and reports
• Evidence of ability to meet deadlines
• Experience / understanding of dealing with sensitive and confidential information
• Previous clerical experience dealing with telephone queries, correspondence and office administration
• Experience of working in a health care setting
• Experience using EMIS and Connecting Care

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.