# Administration Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/administration-assistant/e6957e99-61a5-4419-ab95-58eb2fa4193d
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/administration-assistant/e6957e99-61a5-4419-ab95-58eb2fa4193d.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Goscote House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Salary:** £25272.00
- **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed term: 6 months)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-03T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20T15:51:11.071Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8222074
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8222074?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To support clinical services and the wider administration team in providing efficient administration resource to safely manage the daily demand of referrals entering our services and process these referrals with a patient centred approach to the appropriate clinical services.

Provide comprehensive administrative support across various disciplines and services within the organisation, creating correspondence to support clinical services to enable them to function safely, efficiently and effectively.

All duties outlined are appropriate to the grade and the actual duties will be determined by the individual service/team.

### Main duties of the job

- Support the processing of new referrals into the service in accordance with locally defined Standard Operating Procedures and as directed by the line manager. This may include registration of new patients onto the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system and creating new referrals.
- Support the process of processing referrals appropriately by booking appointments for groups or treatment and clinic appointments as required, arranging cancellation of appointments and rescheduling as required in a timely manner.
- Manipulation of the EPR system to enter and retrieve relevant patient data as required to support the navigation of referrals
- Managing all incoming telephone calls politely and efficiently, taking messages as required and navigating all calls appropriately in line with the Standard Operating Procedure.
- Providing a high standard of communication with a patient centred approach at all times
- Communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders, acting as an ambassador for the organisation when responding to queries by telephone or electronically.
- Support with the preparation of documentation in the form of template letters and other correspondence as directed by the clinical team in an appropriate format

Process incoming/outgoing post, taking appropriate action as defined by local Standard Operating Procedures.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please demonstrate in your application that you meet the essential criteria and have the relevant experience for the post.

Please see JD and PS for details

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Achieved Grade

**Essential**

- Achieved Grade and experience

**Desirable**

- Experience working in the NHS

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 544.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10530771)
- [ps (pdf, 551.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10530772)
- [bchft anti racist declaration (pdf, 222.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2381)

## Agent Notes

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