Job summary
- Main area
- Charity
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 438-PB4653
- Employer
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Preston Hopsital
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Fundraising & Administration Assistant
Band 3
Job overview
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity including Baby Beat currently has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Fundraising and Administration Assistant, based at Royal Preston Hospital. This is a full-time role that combines office-based work with time spent in the community, attending fundraising events and supporting our valued donors and volunteers. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary and become part of a passionate, high-achieving team.
Our charity raises almost £1m annually through a varied and dynamic portfolio of activities. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, hardworking, and flexible—ready to meet the challenge and play a key role in one of the region’s most successful Hospital charity's.
If you want to make a real difference to the lives of local patients and are keen to begin or develop a career in the charity sector—whether or not you have previous fundraising experience—we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Support the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Charity team including Baby Beat to implement multi-year strategies to increase income and
support for them across all areas of fundraising, ensuring donors and supporters receive appropriate stewardship, as well as providing retail administrative, charity administrative and finance support.
You will often be the first point of contact with donors, customers, volunteers, supporters, Trust staff and suppliers.
This post is predominately office-based working with the need to work in the community at fundraising events along with supporting and stewarding the charity’s supporters and donors.
You’ll need to be flexible, enthusiastic, and confident when working with the public, as you’ll sometimes represent the charity at community events.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive and fast-paced charity environment, where your contribution will truly make a difference.
A car and driving license are essential for this post as the post holder will be required to drop of fundraising resources, meet with donors and fundraisers, support fundraising events and attend third party fundraising activities and functions across Lancashire.
Working for our organisation
Here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity, we are dedicated to making a difference to the thousands of patients treated at our hospitals every year.
Our aim is to enhance the services already provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so that patients treated at our hospitals have access to the best possible care, in the very best facilities.
Our support helps us go above and beyond the scope of the NHS by making a difference in four key areas:
- Funding projects such as patient services and comforts
- Funding specialist equipment
- Supporting patients needs and staff welfare
- Supporting the advancement of clinical research
We can fund those added extras that can make all the difference to our patients, when they need it the most.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for complete details. Key responsibilities include:
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Providing general fundraising support across all areas as needed
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Support the charity team to grow income through excellent
stewardship and relationship support. This will include
supporting wider fundraising activities and leading on lower value
fundraising initiatives -
Provide administrative support for whole Hospital charity team
(including Baby Beat), including but not limited to:
To log donations and generate acknowledgement letters via the
donor database
To assist with general finance tasks and the counting and banking
of monies in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions Administration and processing of various digital donation and event
entry platforms such as Just Giving, Enthuse and Trybooking -
Contributing to donor recruitment, donor retention, and the development of fundraising programmes and events.
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Baby Beat Shop administration including but not limited to the
processing of shop income and expenditure, ordering of all stock,
stock pricing, stock control and annual stock takes to ensure
maximum profitability. Responsible for producing monthly retail reports as required to support financial accounting and audit requirements - Supervision of shop volunteers ensuring that the shop rota is
coordinated to maximise opening hours
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working to and achieving financial targets
- Working knowledge of a donor management system or equivalent
- Computer literate - Microsoft Office packages
- Experience of dealing with sensitive issues
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of GDPR in relation to fundraising
- Previous experience working within a charity, fundraising or related role (e.g. marketing / sales)
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications or equivalent work experience
- Full UK Driving License
Desirable criteria
- Educated to AS and A level or equivalent experience
- Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniel Hill
- Job title
- Head of Hospital Charities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 528500
- Additional information
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