Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7552929
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 1 WR
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children's Therapy Services Administrator
Band 3
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced administrator to join our children's therapy services. Our services include occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, equipment and adaptations and dietitians. We provide services from the child development unit at Stepping Hill Hospital, out therapy centre at 1WR Stockport, and across family hubs and early years settings / schools.
The job will mainly be based at 1 WR ( 1 Wellington Rd Stockport) though the post holder may have to work at the other sites on occasion which may include Kennedy Way off Green lane, Stepping Hill or the family hub sites. There are currently 4 other admin staff including one admin lead working in our admin hub.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to support the therapy teams as part of the admin hub. This includes:
Answering phone calls
Supporting room access and set up of the therapy centre
Adding referrals and admin notes and consultations to the patient system EMIS.
Placing orders on the unit 4 order system / NHS supply chain.
Creating Eventbrite events for training courses.
Scanning information to EMIS
sending out appointments / creating appointments on the system
This is not an exhaustive list - please refer to the job description
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assist and support the management of the Children’s therapy teams ensuring an effective and efficient administration service is provided to the clinicians / team leads.
- To work on own initiative to prioritise own work in the various community settings required in the face of competing demands.
- To provide cross-cover management support in the event of colleagues leave / absence.
- To provide personal assistance to the Children’s Therapy manager on delegated tasks involving data management, training nominations/compliance, quality issues and day to day duties such as data inputting and management, filing/copying maintaining confidentiality.
- To support the team to create a positive working environment promoting good well being
- To be a proactive team member of the Children’s Therapy Services to provide an effective and responsive service.
- To contribute to the administrative function of the children’s services to promote efficiency and to reflect changes in therapy services / systems.
- To support the children’s therapy managers in tasks required for the children’s therapy services.
- To work with limited supervision
- To be accountable for own actions
- To be guided by service processes as developed by service leads
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £26.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- score out of 3 (0 none to 3 excellent)
Desirable criteria
- score out of 3
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- score out of 3
Desirable criteria
- score out of 3
Experience
Essential criteria
- score out of 3
Desirable criteria
- score out of 3
skills
Essential criteria
- score out of 3
work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- score out of 3
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carol Sperring
- Job title
- Children's Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 204 4155
- Additional information
Pamela Lawless - Admin Lead
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