Job summary
- Main area
- Admin Band 3
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (Options for some term time working)
- Job ref
- 199-7410632-FM-MT
- Employer
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Giles School
- Town
- South Croydon
- Salary
- £29,651 - £31,312 pa pro-rata incl HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Team Administrator
Band 3
Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.
Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud. #choosecroydon
Job overview
Team Administrator
Part Time - 15 H/W, Permanent - Band 3
Please note this role is 2 days per week (15 hours) predominantly based at Lennard Rd and will support the Tulip Challenging Behaviour Service, supporting CYP with Learning disabilities. the successful candidate may be required to provide Cross Cover for the Tulip nursing team across other sites on occasion.
The Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Team and Children's community nursing team provides co-ordination and case management of children with highly complex and unstable long-term conditions in partnership with health, education and social care organisations.
The aim of the service is to provide a dedicated specialist children’s nurse to promote standards of excellence and manage the clinical risk of complex, unstable and vulnerable children in the community within the context of family centered care thereby reducing the need for secondary care interventions.
This role work alongside other service administrators to support provide administration to Paeditaric Neurodisability and Community Children's nursing services, working flexibly to meet the diverse needs of the service across St Giles School and Lennard Road sites.
Interview Date - TBC
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for providing full administrative support to the team to which you are working, duties may include:
Use of computer software packages to process documents and letters
Ability to access the internet and use email
Use of spreadsheets or databases as appropriate to collate data required for service management
Maintain accurate diaries
Maintaining an effective up to date filing system
Ordering equipment and monitoring and arranging servicing of equipment used by nursing staff.
Arranging appointments and booking venues
Screening incoming mail, dealing with directly if appropriate or referring to members of the team
Drafting letters and memos as appropriate
Preparing agendas, minute taking and typing up the minutes of the meeting
Running data reports from NHS systems such as EMIS.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the attached JD and PS for more detailed information re the post.
please note this post is split across Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing and Children's Community Nursing.
Please contact Charlotte Conway (see below) for more details on the specific working arrangements
Person specification
Educucation/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Education/NVQ 3/City and Guilds or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent IT qualification
Desirable criteria
- Education at degree level
- Specialist qualifications/ extensive experience in the use of excel spreadsheets
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients, relatives of varying levels of understanding.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of administrative working in a healthcare setting.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of wide range of routine and complex clerical activities preferably within the healthcare setting or equivalent public sector.
- experience of using Office applications including the use of Outlook electronic mail systems and use of routine office equipment.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of medical and pharmaceutical terminology
- Experience or understanding of the audit process
- Previous experience working in a setting with children with disability/ complex health conditions.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to produce and proof read reports/documents to a high standard.
- Using Word, Powerpoint and Excel to a high standard. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including an excellent telephone manner.
Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Good organisational and time management skills. Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Ability to work independently and take responsibility for own decisions but recognising when to refer to senior staff appropriately.
- Ability to organise, prioritise work for self and others and ability to meet deadlines.
- Develop effective working relationships across organisational boundaries
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Conway
- Job title
- Paediatric Neurodisability Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02086804810
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