Manchester Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Team Admin Manchester, England
Job description
The post holder will be responsible for organising and providing effective and efficient clerical and administrative support to the Manchester Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia team. The role involves the coordination and implementation of office procedures and will require a high degree of organisational skills and excellent working knowledge of administrative systems including but not exclusively EMIS, INTEGRA , NHSP and HIVE. The post holder will often be the first point of contact and a focal point for the service requiring clear communication and liaison skills. They will be responsible for managing and prioritising their own workload and will be required to use their own initiative. The post holder will also provide line management for the band 3 Team Administrative Assistant.
As the largest example of an integrated health and social care workforce under one organisation, we offer a full range of NHS community roles working in both children’s and adult services. These include district and community nurses, social workers, health visitors, therapists, care staff, support staff and many other health and care professionals.
To use a variety of software packages such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Access etc to produce correspondence and maintain presentations, records, spreadsheets, and databases.
To identify best practice and develop working practices that deliver efficient and effective administrative support to the MSCT Service
To act as a first contact for communication, enquiries ensuring that patients and visitors are welcomed to the Centre.
To provide line management to a band 3 Administrative Assistant
To input confidential patient information into electronic patient records (HIVE &EMIS)
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
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.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. 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 for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
