Homeless Families Team Assistant - Health Visiting | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Manchester is seeking a Band 2 Homeless Families Team Assistant to provide top-class admin support for a health visiting team. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, a detail-oriented approach, and the ability to work flexibly. Responsibilities include data management, liaising with health professionals, and maintaining confidentiality. This role offers a chance to make a significant difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Methodical and reliable with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.
• Experience in maintaining confidentiality in a work environment.

Responsibilities

• Collate and input data on the EMIS System.
• Liaise with health professionals and children's services.
• Ensure accurate filing of manual and electronic records.
• Maintain client/patient confidentiality.

Skills

Organisational skills

Excellent communication

Teamwork

Flexibility

Detail-oriented

Job description

Overview

Are you organised, methodical, with excellent communication and team workings skills? We require a helpful and reliable team assistant to provide a top class admin service for a busy health visiting team. This role is Band 2 Homeless Families Team Assistant. The successful candidate will need a good eye for detail and know the importance of working in a confidential environment. The ideal candidate will be someone who enjoys helping others and is flexible to support the changing requirements service. You will require excellent interpersonal skills and will be used to communicating effectively at all levels and with different audiences. We are looking for a candidate with a positive attitude, flexibility and ability to work with staff and service users under own initiative, but can also work as a team.

Responsibilities

• Collating and inputting data on the EMIS System.
• Liaising with health professionals, children's services and other agencies.
• Ensuring all filing of manual and electronic records are kept up to date and accurate.
• Maintaining client/patient confidentiality and demonstrating an investigative mindset in a busy environment.

About MFT

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and is creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, offering significant opportunities within a large organisation. We have created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022. We are also a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, supporting high-quality research programmes, and are embarking on our Green Plan to make healthcare more sustainable.

Equal Opportunity and How to Apply

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together. Diversity matters: MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating discrimination across our workforce. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [e-mail].

Important Information

This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025.