# Specialist Palliative Care Administrative Assistant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-palliative-care-administrative-assistant/4c5518ca-11a0-46a8-a897-fd7fc4a8da0c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-palliative-care-administrative-assistant/4c5518ca-11a0-46a8-a897-fd7fc4a8da0c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Peterborough - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 10 months (Or Secondment) - **Employment type:** Part time - 21.75 hours per week (Mon - Fri , no weekend working) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T12:21:36.265Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administrative_Specialist_palliative_care/Administrative_Specialist_palliative_care-v8077874 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8077874?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will work closely with a small and supportive professional administrative team - Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies. - Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures. - Support workloads within the speciality. - Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information. - Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff. - Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings. - Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues. - Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR). ### Main duties of the job Support with: Organising meetings including minute taking.                 MDT working support    Letter writing.               Data collection and reporting.              Preparation of patient information & Registering patients . Support for audit ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To provide efficient and comprehensive administrative support to the Peterborough and Stamford’s Specialist Palliative Care Community and Hospital Teams. - To provide efficient and comprehensive administrative support to the Clinical Psychologist working with the Specialist Palliative Care Team. - To perform all allocated clerical tasks required to meet the needs of the service. The post holder will:- - Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies. - Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures. - Support workloads within the speciality. - Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information. - Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff. - Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings. - Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues. - Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR). - To undergo training as necessary to meet the needs of new developments within the specialist service. - Managing individual workload in order to meet project deadlines assigned to the post holder. - Adaptable to change management. - Excellent team player with good communication skills. - Enthusiastic, motivated, ability to prioritise and work independently. - To support the Administrative Team Leader for the Specialist Nursing Team ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - IT Skills. - Self motivated and ability to build rapport with patients and colleagues. - Ability to work with confidential and sensitive information. E ### Experience **Essential** - Organising meetings including minute taking. - Experience of working under pressure, prioritising work and meeting deadlines. - Excellent telephone skills. - Experience of MS Office. **Desirable** - Preparation of patient information. - Data collection and reporting. - Experience of working in the NHS. ### Education/knowledge **Essential** - Audio typing or relevant experience. - Educated to GSCE level Grade A-C (or equivalent) one of which needs to include English language and maths. - Passion and enthusiasm for working in an environment/team of palliative and End Of Life work. **Desirable** - EDCL or relevant experience. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Evidence of excellent oral and written communication skills. - Experience of working effectively both independently and as part of a team. - Evidence of data collection knowledge. - Strong organisational skills and flexible approach. **Desirable** - Experience of using NHS IT systems including: SystmOne, Medway, e-Track, Anglia ICE, Epro. ## Documents - [admin jd spc (pdf, 456.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10375844) - [ps admin spc (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10375843) - [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886) - [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865) - [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745) - [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.