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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Good verbal and written communication skills
- Skills
Experience working with Microsoft Office, including comprehensive knowledge of Excel
- Skills
Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload ; effective time management
- Skills
Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
- Skills
Capable of working within a multidisciplinary team with effective interpersonal skills
- Knowledge
Understanding of confidentiality and data protection
- Knowledge
Understanding of customer service
- Experience
Experience of working in a busy office environment or reception role
- Experience
Experience of prioritising, planning and organising own tasks
- Experience
Working with guidelines
- Experience
Experience of customer service or dealing with the public
- Experience
Data entry
- Experience
Experience of IT packages - Microsoft Office
- Qualifications
Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
- Qualifications
NVQ level 2 Customer Service/ Business
- Qualifications
Admin /ITQ or equivalent experience
- Additional Requirements
To act in a professional manner at all times
- Additional Requirements
The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Desirable
9 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of the Trust including awareness of the Trust's priorities
- Knowledge
Knowledge of Trust information systems
- Knowledge
Knowledge of Medical Terminology
- Experience
Previous experience of working in the NHS
- Experience
Previous experience of working within medical records
- Experience
Experience of call handling
- Experience
Experience of dealing with difficult situations and confrontations
- Qualifications
Typing qualification or equivalent
- Qualifications
Secretary qualification or equivalent
Job overview
The Cardiac rehabilitation team are seeking a well organised individual for this varied and busy role.
Main duties of the job
The dynamic multidisciplinary team provide comprehensive rehabilitation to patients with a range of cardiovascular complications, which requires a multitude of administrative supportive tasks. Good communication skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously are essential attributes for this post holder. Excellent IT skills, including experience using MS Office, and prior experience in an administrative role are highly desirable.
You will provide efficient and effective support to the service, performing tasks such as scheduling appointments, producing letters, managing patient caseloads, communicating information
with patients and performing day-to-day tasks to support the management of the local office environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 10th September 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 2nd October 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
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.
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This advert is for Cardiology Services Administrator with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Administrator role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 p.a. pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 8 months (Secondment). The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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