Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC36-26
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Annes Primary Care Centre
- Town
- St Annes
- Salary
- £24,465 PA Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Therapies Administrator
NHS AfC: Band 2
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with a willingness to learn new skills and is passionate about helping people.
The successful candidate will provide administrative support to the Paediatric Therapies teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be working across the Fylde Coast within the Paediatric Admin Therapy Teams. It is important the post holder is able to work flexibly, using their own initiative and organisational skills to complete tasks.
The post holder will provide and maintain a high quality secretarial, administration and information service to the Paediatric Therapy teams, acting as a central reference point to all staff within the service including clinicians/managerial staff, Trust stakeholders and clients. The role comprises of a wide range of specific duties and requires competence in keyboard skills, communication and organisational skills. An ability to understand the need for and to maintain confidentiality is essential.
An essential part of the role is the ability to manage and prioritise own workload without direct supervision.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- English GCSE or Equivalent
- Maths GCSE or Equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive Clerical experience
- Experience of working with the general public
- Telephone Duties
- Ability to work in a highly confidential and sensitive manner.
- IT skills – sound knowledge and demonstrable experience of using Microsoft word, excel and outlook on a regular basis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Experience of diffusing difficult situations
- Experience of arranging meetings, to include preparation of agendas and taking minutes
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to allocate and delegate work
- Proven history of developing databases and analysing information
- Audit experience.
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
- Experience of using clinical record keeping system
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Self motivated, able to work independently
- Approachable
- Flexible
- Be able to work as part of a team
- Ability to use a range of IT packages competently including Word and Excel
- Hardworking and conscientious
- Ability to work under pressure and organise workload to meet competing demands
- Be able to communicate with different people in all levels of the organisation
- Maintain a quality service through attention to detail
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Excellent organisational skills, including time management and workload planning
- Resourceful and independent
- Exercise judgment when dealing with service user enquiries
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of using the EMIS community system
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Heaton
- Job title
- Team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951101
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