# Clerical Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Preston
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 5 months (31/10/2026)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (3 x Full Time Contracts Available (Part Time Considered))
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22T13:46:40.184Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Chorley/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Physical_Health_Admin/Physical_Health_Admin-v8033577
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8033577?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for three post holders to support the transfer of the electronic patient records from ECR and RiO to EMIS. This will be supporting physical health services in the Central & West Network.

The post holders will be aligned to the Community administration hubs supporting working from  sites including Clinics and Health Centres in Preston, Chorley & South Ribble localities.  They will be required to work flexibly in response to the needs of the Digital and administrative service as directed by their administration line manager, to ensure continuity of a quality service provision.

### Main duties of the job

The post holders will have a good standard of education with qualifications in English, Maths and Word processing.  Excellent computer skills are essential to support the teams transitioning to a new patient administration system.  General administration experience is required in order to provide a professional service to the clinical teams.  Contact with patients by telephone is required and therefore, experience of dealing with people is essential, as are excellent interpersonal and customer care skills.  It is essential that the post holder has good organisational and communication skills.  The post holder will be required to work both as part of a team and on their own initiative.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

## Job Details

We have an exciting opportunity for three post holders to support the transfer of the electronic patient records from ECR and RiO to EMIS. This will be supporting physical health services in the Central & West Network.

The post holders will be aligned to the Community administration hubs supporting working from  sites including Clinics and Health Centres in Preston, Chorley & South Ribble localities.  They will be required to work flexibly in response to the needs of the Digital and administrative service as directed by their administration line manager, to ensure continuity of a quality service provision.

## Job Description

The post holders will have a good standard of education with qualifications in English, Maths and Word processing.  Excellent computer skills are essential to support the teams transitioning to a new patient administration system.  General administration experience is required in order to provide a professional service to the clinical teams.  Contact with patients by telephone is required and therefore, experience of dealing with people is essential, as are excellent interpersonal and customer care skills.  It is essential that the post holder has good organisational and communication skills.  The post holder will be required to work both as part of a team and on their own initiative.

## Responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Team player
- Excellent telephone manner

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Working with databases
- Working with Microsoft Office applications

### Experience

**Essential**

- Working in an office environment
- Working with members of the public

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Administrative qualification at NVQ Level 2/RSA 2 or equivalent experience
- GCSE English Language A-C

## Documents

- [jdps (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10321290)
- [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256)

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