Job vacancy: Locality Administrator - Northamptonshire, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Northamptonshire

Job summary

Main area: Enabling Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 335-A-1479

Employer: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Kettering
Town: Northamptonshire
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/05/2024 23:59

Locality Administrator - Northamptonshire

NHS AfC: Band 4

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role will provide administration support to the local management team and you will be required to organise and attend local meetings. You will have 5 GCSE’s grade C or above in Maths and English and an NVQ in Business Administration, or equivalent, or a willingness to work towards.

You will possess excellent keyboard and administration skills and have a proven track record of completing projects, reports and key pieces of work to a high standard. You will have the ability to problem solve and plan your workload, as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills. Previous NHS experience is an advantage.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience in Administration role

Desirable criteria

Experience of Locality Administrator role in EMAS

GCSE

Essential criteria

Achieved 5 or more GCSE A - C grade - English & Maths essential

Desirable criteria

NVQ in Business Administration

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Excellent Location

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:

It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

You may be required to complete a DBS clearance check if offered a position with EMAS. If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £44.20.