Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative and Clerical
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-F844-25-A
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Spindles Shopping Centre
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 PA pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Administration Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Team Administrator to provide support to the Oldham Learning Disability Service. We are a busy multi disciplinary team providing specialist health care to children and adults with learning disabilities who live in Oldham.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to support high quality delivery of our busy service. The successful candidate will be expected to provide a full range of secretarial assistance and administrative support to all team members, including answering telephone calls, inputting and modifying data onto patient records, photocopying, maintaining diaries, arranging meetings and supporting the office manager.
This is a very varied role and you will be required to work flexibly in order to meet the day to day demands. You will need to deal with telephone enquiries efficiently and professionally, providing an appropriate and courteous response, passing on to the relevant colleague or taking messages when required. You will be proficient in Microsoft Office and have excellent keyboard skills.
As a crucial part of our team, you will be able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work on your own initiative.
Working for our organisation
The postholder will be based with the Oldham Community Learning Disability Team at Spindles Shopping Centre. This is a part time position of 25 hours per week.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
John King
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
Telephone number
0161 716 4967
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of recent further development / training to NVQ3 or equivalent
- • GCSE in English and Mathematics or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- • RSA II / ECDL or equivalent
- • Completion of PARIS Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant administrative experience in a similar environment.
- Some experience of communicating with people with learning disabilities
Desirable criteria
- experience of managing difficult telephone calls
- experience of inputting referrals
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of administrative processes. •
- Understanding of confidentiality and data protection policies and procedures.
- Ability to utilise a range of IT programmes
- Ability to work flexibly and to prioritise workload
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate with service users
- Ability to work as part of a team and individually
- Ability to competently use and modify a database
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to form productive working relationships with multi-disciplinary staff
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge/experience of issues affecting people with a learning disability
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
- John King
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161716 4967
- Additional information
Julie Dey, Office Manager 0161 716 5444
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
- Telephone
- 01617163181
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