# Medical Workforce Assistant

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

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medical-workforce-assistant/867a59c4-5a50-413e-beca-27460e9d243c
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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £31,554 - £33,270 p.a. inc.
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 7 months (maternity cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T08:00:31.588Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Haggerston/Homerton_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Human_Resources/Human_Resources-v8170275
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8170275?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.homerton.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Medical Workforce Team are seeking someone with a keen interest in a generalist HR career, to  provide a high level operational service to managers and employees.

The role of the Medical Workforce Assistant is varied, requiring excellent organisational and time-management skills with the ability to prioritise conflicting demands.

We are seeking someone with meticulous attention to detail, experience of HR administration, strong communication skills, and an approachable and confident manner when dealing with people at all levels.

This post is for 7 months to cover a period of maternity leave within the team.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide administrative and clerical support to the recruitment function, ensuring high quality and safe recruitment and selection practice, induction, sign on and administration of payroll information and contracts of employment; maintenance of electronic filing systems and ESR, and responsibility for key medical workforce processes and systems.
- To support the day to day operational management of the Medical Recruitment Advisors ensuring a high quality, responsive service to medical staff and managers within the Trust.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues.
- Knowledge of the recruitment process.
- Knowledge/understanding of the role of the Human Resources department

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of the NHS
- An understanding of Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions

### Experience

**Essential**

- Administrative experience

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within a Recruitment environment.

### Skills/ Abilities

**Essential**

- Excellent organisational and administration skills – prioritising, meeting deadlines, setting standards
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to manage own workload and work under pressure

**Desirable**

- ESR

### Education / Qualifications

**Essential**

- GCSE or equivalent English
- Business Administration / Human Resources Related Study or equivalent experience

**Desirable**

- CIPD or working towards

## Documents

- [jd and ps (pdf, 216.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10472352)
- [trust values (pdf, 652.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=938)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 124.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=937)

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