Workforce Administrator

Job description

Job summary

The Workforce Directorate of the Trust take great pride in the high quality services we offer and the support we provide to our clinical and medical colleagues across the organisation. We are a passionate, values led, supportive and friendly team who achieve great outcomes through our responsive, innovative and can do approach.

If you are interested in commencing a role in Human Resources, we have a wonderful opportunity to enable you to kick-start a fantastic career.

The role will be based at the Hospital and in addition to working with different teams, the postholder will offer consistent support on our departmental front desk at the hospital.

It is important that you are able to multi-task, manage your own workload and respond to changing priorities.

We can promise you a rewarding role where no two days are alike.

Please note the role profile is subject to consistency checking with the job evaluation panel.

Main duties of the job

To provide a friendly, high quality and efficient administrative service to the Workforce Directorate based at Royal Papworth Hospital including diary management, photocopying and responding to emails under the direction of departmental managers.

To greet and guide visitors to Workforce and providing a signposting service.

To provide support to the Employee Relations and Medical Staffing teams, as directed.

To support preparation of Trust ID badges, access and smartcard allocation and support Recruitment and Medical Staffing teams during onboarding.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description
Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• IT skills to RSA/NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Keyboard skills (NVQ2 / RSA2 or equivalent) or previous administrative experience

Experience

Essential

• Good organisational skills
• IT literate with experience of working with software packages
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Customer focused work experience

Additional Criteria

Essential

• As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Ability to be patient, tolerant and use discretion at all times
• Possess a willingness to learn
• Ability to treat all employee and other information confidentially
• Ability to achieve results and be self-reliant
• Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work within a team
• Ability to work flexibly

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• IT skills to RSA/NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Keyboard skills (NVQ2 / RSA2 or equivalent) or previous administrative experience

Experience

Essential

• Good organisational skills
• IT literate with experience of working with software packages
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Customer focused work experience

Additional Criteria

Essential

• As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Ability to be patient, tolerant and use discretion at all times
• Possess a willingness to learn
• Ability to treat all employee and other information confidentially
• Ability to achieve results and be self-reliant
• Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work within a team
• Ability to work flexibly

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

United Kingdom

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