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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Office experience with knowledge of a full range of administrative tasks
- Experience
Office experience within a healthcare setting
- Experience
Understanding of and previous experience of leading specific work projects
- Experience
Experience of developing data spread sheets for quality monitoring processes
- Experience
Communication and negotiation at managerial levels within an organisation
- Experience
Able to analyse complex information relating to data and present results to manager/team
- Experience
Experience in the preparation of high quality documentation such as reports, meeting minutes and formal papers
- Experience
General working skills and knowledge in the use of various IT systems and applications such as Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint), with the ability to learn, understand and utilise appropriate software packages within the organisation
- Experience
The ability to communicate effectively with a range of individuals including learners, colleagues, and external stakeholders
- Experience
The ability to make judgements on content and timing of meetings/training activity, formulating and adjusting plans to accommodate service user need.
- Experience
Able to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to the priorities of the department on a daily basis
- Experience
Ability to prioritise conflicting demands, ensuring that deadlines are met
- Experience
The ability to suggest & demonstrate changes to own area of practice
- Experience
Confident using initiative to solve problems and deliver work output independently
- Qualifications
Level 4 or above qualification (Undergraduate degree, Foundation degree, Cert/Dip HE, HNC/D, NVQ Level 4 or equivalent)
- Additional Criteria
As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Previous experience of working in the NHS
- Experience
Experience of Healthcare Education administration Medical/education terminology
- Experience
Experience of undertaking/supporting TNA and data collection
- Experience
Experience of educational contract management with HEIs, Workforce Partnership
- Experience
General working skills and knowledge in the use of various IT systems and applications such as: Allocate Healthroster, Business Intelligence tools
- Qualifications
Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience in one or more of the following areas: Healthcare, People Development, Education / Training
- Qualifications
Keyboard skills to RSA level 3 or equivalent
- Qualifications
European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)/equivalent qualification or experience
Job summary
The link between education and delivering the highest standards of care and best patient outcomes is indisputable. As the post holder, you will be a crucial member of the education and development team, working within the admin and clerical function, supporting the Clinical Education Team to deliver high-quality education across a range of learner groups. The post holder will contribute towards the quality, efficient administration services provided across the Trust in relation to education, working closely with various teams and services to ensure planning is appropriately structured and communicated. This role, among others, acts as the first line of contact for the Clinical Education Team via telephone or email and is detrimental to the day-to-day operations of the service.
Informal discussions and meetings available and recommended. Please get in contact to arrange.
Main duties of the job
The role sits within Clinical Education and works closely with Admin and Clerical functions across various education services in the Trust, including Medical and Workforce Education. The role supports administration elements of inward and outward-facing education delivery to a range of learner groups. Duties include;
Room bookings and management
Managing bookings onto course and register generation
Arranging diaries
Using conference or video calling software
Timetable formation
Information dissemination to faculty and learner groups
Fielding queries related to education and signposting
Use of the Trust learning management system to maintain up to date training records
Aid in room preparation and resource requirements (printing, laminating, binding, photocopying)
Note taking and agenda setting for meetings.
The role is detrimental to the responsiveness of the service and will be one of the first points of contact for the service, ensuring that correspondence is appropriately escalated to relevant parties in a timely fashion to maintain an efficient service. The postholder is expected to work to standard operating practices for routine workloads/workstreams to ensure consistency of outcomes. There is scope for supporting audits and adhoc projects, contributing to development of the services provided alongside the wider team. The post is predominantly office based mainly using visual display units but does support with learner evaluations and co-ordination of some learning events.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Details
- Date posted: 17 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 4
- Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 175-2627-1975
- Job locations: Heart and Lung Research Institute, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom, Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
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This advert is for Multi-professional Education Administrator with Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Administrator role. The advertised salary is £28392.00 to £31157.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Sep 2026.
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