Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
3 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Communication skills
Experience of communicating effectively and developing productive working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- Administrative skills
Proven experience working within an administrative role
- Organisational skills
Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise workload effectively.
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Administrative skills
Proven experience of completing administrative tasks
Job overview
We are seeking an organised and proactive individual to provide high-quality administrative and business support to the Contracts Team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting contract management activities, maintaining accurate records, coordinating administrative processes, and ensuring effective communication with both internal colleagues and external providers. Key responsibilities will include monitoring the progress of contract documentation, managing meeting administration and associated governance processes, maintaining the Kent and Medway contracts register, and assisting with the resolution of queries. The role will also involve engaging with providers and staff across the organisation and managing the team mailbox
Main duties of the job
- Provide high quality project, service, initiative and administrative support including information and analysis;
- Provide business and administrative support to the CCG contracts team
- Assist in the preparation of contracts documentation with support
- Meetings administration
- Maintain the Kent and Medway contracts register
- Provide support to resolving queries, engaging with providers and CCG staff as appropriate and managing the team mailbox
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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This advert is for Contract Support Officer with NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board in Maidstone, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata, per annum. The contract type is 10 months (10 months - Secondment Cover). The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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