Job summary
- Main area
- Specialty
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (To work flexible hours in line with service needs (i.e. evening and weekend as and when required).)
- Job ref
- 301-ZR-26-7892961
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- STaRS
- Town
- Stafford
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Administrator
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
This role will provide a confidential and efficient administrative service within STaRS to achieve effective and efficient service provision. The needs of the service user will be the utmost priority. The principle of high quality customer care is at the heart of this role.
The post holder will be required to work on their own initiative, prioritise work and meet deadlines in order to fulfil the requirements of the post, liaising with relevant others in order to provide high-quality services. This can be a stressful environment, by way of telephone calls and numerous daily urgencies. The post holder requires the ability to work under pressure, with conflicting demands at times, show a willingness to assist others and be a key member of the team.
Main duties of the job
• Provide high-quality administrative support to the team, including managing records, booking appointments, handling referrals, and producing correspondence.
• Maintain accurate, secure, and confidential client and staff records in line with data protection laws and policies.
• Act as a central point of contact for enquiries, phone calls, and communication with staff, service users, carers, GPs, and external agencies.
• Use Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, OneNote) and internal systems
• Ensure data accuracy, system updates, and monitoring of KPIs, highlighting issues or trends.
• Assist with supplies, post, filing, room bookings, and general office tasks.
• Prioritise and manage own workload to meet deadlines.
• Uphold confidentiality, data protection, and Trust values at all times.
• Flexible working and multi-tasking.
Working for our organisation
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
- To demonstrate the Trust’s values and behaviours at all times in the work environment.
- To accurately maintain and keep secure patient health and staff records/systems in line with Policy and Standard Operating Procedure, to ensure data quality, confidentiality and compliance with the current Data Protection Law.
- Provide high quality comprehensive administrative support to the team, including updating recording systems, requesting information from GPs, arranging, and booking of appointments and production of letters.
- Use of Microsoft Office packages in particular Outlook, Word, OneNote, Microsoft Teams, Excel to record information, create templates, guides and clinical correspondence production of letters and reports.
- Team focused clinical admin support including production of opt in and outcome letters in accordance with the team processes and completion of follow up actions - arranging of call back clinics, discharging process.
- Monitor and update data systems ensuring key information is captured and inputted accurately in line with team policies and procedures using own judgement to direct to appropriate member of staff where necessary.
- To be responsible for the operation of the appointment facilitation into pathways, handling enquiries, creating assessment appointments, and ensuring electronic systems are up to date and maintained.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of general education including English and Maths at GCSE Grade C or equivalent or Functional skills (English and Maths) Level 2
- RSA Stage III Word Processing / Text Processing or equivalent
- ECDL/CLAIT IT qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in administration support role including dealing with telephone enquiries in a timely manner.
- Experience of dealing with sensitive/distressing issues,
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS administration experience
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
- Lucy Alcock
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974469933
- Additional information
If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Lucy as we would love to hear from you.
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