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Admin
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
828-PROVIDE3871
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type
NHS
Site
Brentwood Community Hospital
Town
Brentwood
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 pa, including high cost allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/01/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Provide CIC logo

Data/Operations Team Administrator

Band 3

Job overview

We are looking for a candidate who is committed to high quality performance, dynamic, can work in faced paced environment with excellent ability to prioritise and to be able to remain calm in a demanding and changeable situation.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, highly  motivated and organised to provide an outstanding service. You will need to be confident working within a team in a fast paced environment, have excellent communication skills, IT skills and be comfortable communicating with patients and colleagues at all levels and work quickly and accurately under pressure.

You will be responsible and accountable for consistently and accurately performing your role, delivering a high quality service in a confident and courteous way to service users.

This post requires proven experience delivering  high quality service, working within administrative environment, using multiple IT systems, managing data, preferable NHS experience but not essential.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Reception duties,  welcoming visitors,  answering  phones, deal with enquiries.
  • Daily input data inc ward admission & discharge databases & ensuring patients' documents are updated with appointments etc, book transport, ensure transfer & discharge letters are escalated.
  • Request appointments, procedures & results.
  • Provide cover for other team members on the community wards.
  • Complete audits.
  • Ensure documentation of patient's valuables on admission.
  • Scan, email & photocopy any info as requested and collate & prepare as required.
  • Maintain stationery stocks.
  • Capture staff hours on e-rostering.
  • Check staffing levels & escalate any shortages.  In liaison with Nurse in Charge, request agency staff.
  • Check & send agency timesheets to the finance dept. 
  • Handle donations & ensure they are receipted.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide high quality reception duties, through welcoming and greeting patients, relatives, staff and visitors to the ward and answering the ward telephones in a professional and courteous manner; dealing with enquiries appropriately and efficiently.
  • Ensuring that any changes affecting the normal processes on the ward are communicated out to other relevant departments without delay.
  • Daily inputting and updating of data including updating ward admission and discharge databases and ensuring patients' documentation is updated with appointments and procedures, including patient follow-ups, booking patient transport, transferring patient to other care, ensuring transfer and discharge letters are escalated onto the correct department or GP as per the Organisation's Policies and Procedures.
  • Request appointments, procedures and results from other departments, within the appropriate time scale.
  • Provide cover for other team members, to collate and distribute daily, weekly and end of month data for the community ward as required in accordance with the Organisation's procedures and within the specified time frames.
  • Ensure all relevant audits are completed accurately and within the specified time scales.
  • Ensure documentation of patient's valuables on admission are held securely and in accordance with the Organisation's Policies and Procedures, and returned to the patient upon discharge.
  • Scan, email and photocopy any information as requested and collate and prepare documentation as required.
  • Maintain stationery stocks for the ward, ensuring that an agreed stock levels maintained and new stock is ordered when necessary using the relevant procedure.
  • Capture staff hours on e-rostering and ensure that all data is accurate and completed within the timescale set out by the Organisation's Policies and Procedures.  Ensure this is also signed off by the Nurse in Charge to avoid any delays.
  • Check staffing levels on a daily and weekly basis and escalate any shortages.  In liaison with the Nurse in Charge, request agency staff to ensure the ward is staffed within the safe staffing levels.
  • Check and send agency timesheets to the finance dept on a weekly basis to ensure payment is processed.
  • Handle donations, charitable funds monies and ensure they are receipted into the correct budgets.
  • There may be a requirement to undertake other duties as reasonably required to support the organisation, which may include work at other organisation's managed locations.  The post holder will not be required to undertake any function for which they are not trained or qualified to perform.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 or equivelent
  • MS Word, Excel and Outlook experience and / or qualifications

Circumstances

Essential criteria
  • Car Driver

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous NHS or Care experience
  • Previous admin or reception experience
Desirable criteria
  • Systemone knowledge
  • Knowledge of medical terminology

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Positive about disabled peopleAge positiveMINTDisability confident employerEssex Family Friendly EmployersArmed Forces CovenantQNI

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Trudy Connolly
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01277 713990
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