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Job summary

Main area
Administration and Clerical
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working one weekend day per month)
Job ref
251-CORP1596-TSA
Employer
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Basingstoke
Town
Basingstoke
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/08/2024 23:59

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Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Temporary Staffing Administrator

Band 3

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

 

Job overview

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

We are looking to expand our friendly and successful nursebank team and are currently recruiting for a Temporary Staffing Administrator, based in Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.  

In our busy environment you will be part of a team acting as the first point of contact via the phone and email for booking bank shifts and a variety of queries.  The post holder will be part of a supportive team, providing an efficient and professional temporary staffing service to both our existing and new bank staff, and our clinical and management teams requiring staff.

Main duties of the job

To support our frontline clinical teams by covering vacant shifts with bank and agency workers, whilst accurately recording information onto our systems. You should have excellent customer service skills and be able to communicate effectively in a sensitive and confidential manner, as you will be dealing with a wide and interesting variety of queries and enquiries.

Communication and team working are essential, as is the ability to work under your own initiative. The post holder should have excellent IT and organisational skills ideally with experience of working in a fast-paced office environment.

**We are looking for someone to work ideally full time who must also be able to work one 11am to 7pm shift per week and one Sunday a month 8am to 4pm** Some working from home may be possible following training.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.


Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.


We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.


The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • English Language and Maths minimum GCSE or equivalent
  • IT Skills

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of working in a busy administrative environment
  • Evidence of working in a busy administrative environment
  • Experience in working in a Customer Care
  • Excellent telephone skills
  • Experience with dealing with customers face to face or via the telephone
Desirable criteria
  • Working within an Agency staffing organisation or within a Healthcare Setting.

Skills & Ability

Essential criteria
  • PC literation with experience of Microsoft office applications, including database, word, excel and outlook
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines

Other Specific Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Problem solving skills
  • High degree of accuracy and attention to details
  • Work flexibly within office opening hours

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldArmed Forces Covenant

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Eileen Rudge
Job title
Temporary Staffing and Erostering Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01256 313375
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