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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Contact
- Address
- Blackpool Victoria Hospital
- Whinney Heys Road
- Blackpool
- Lancashire
- FY3 8NR
Clerical Worker
Accepting applications until: 25-Mar-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Mar-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Blackpool Stadium
- Cyfeiriad
- Seasiders Way
- Tref
- Blackpool
- Cod post
- FY1 6JX
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Enhancements are payable for unsocial hours
- Oriau
- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Cyflog
- £24,937 - £26,598 N/A
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- A&C
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are seeking a committed and organised individual to join our new Integrated Community Services Admin Shared Service team, where every task you complete helps improve the experience and outcomes of our patients.
In this role, you will support the smooth running of services by managing enquiries, processing referrals, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating communication. You’ll often be the first point of contact, providing a calm, professional, and compassionate response — particularly when patients or families may be distressed or in need of clear guidance.
You will play an essential role in enabling clinical teams to focus on delivering excellent care by ensuring they have timely, accurate information and reliable administrative support. Working collaboratively with colleagues, you’ll help shape this evolving service and contribute to improvements that place patient needs at the centre of everything we do.
A positive, flexible approach and a genuine commitment to supporting high-quality patient care are crucial for this role.
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- Act as a first point of contact for patient, carer, and service enquiries, providing a calm, compassionate and professional response at all times.
- Process referrals and incoming information accurately and promptly to ensure patients move smoothly through the system.
- Maintain high-quality records using agreed systems, ensuring information is up to date, secure, and accessible to clinical teams when needed.
- Support the coordination of patient appointments, and service activities,
- Handle sensitive information with discretion, maintaining confidentiality and following organisational policies.
- Work closely with clinical and operational colleagues to ensure administrative processes enable timely, safe, and effective patient care.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of the new shared service, supporting the implementation of consistent processes and a high-quality administrative offer.
- Support service promotion and communication, ensuring clear and patient-focused messaging.
- Provide flexible team support, stepping in across different functions to maintain a smooth and responsive service.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
At Blackpool Teaching Hospital we offer training and induction to all staff members new to the Trust.
We encourage all our staff whatever their role to keep learning through funded continued professional development which alongside a rolling clinical skills training programme can include more specialised clinical training dependent on the role, leadership development programmes, skills in coaching, and professional nurse advocate training.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals recognise that our focus needs to be on retention, rewarding and recognising our amazing staff through schemes such as Christmas Sparkle, national appreciation days, and initiatives like our ‘going the extra mile’ peer recognition cards.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live.
Our strategic vision is:
“As a high performing Trust, operating as part of an integrated care system, we will provide high quality, safe and effective care. This will be achieved in a financially sustainable way, through our skilled and motivated workforce”.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- To deliver a high quality comprehensive administration service to the team whilst prioritising a busy workload and meeting deadlines
- To liaise with other professional bodies and organisations as appropriate
- To respond to incoming calls and deal with enquiries ensuring appropriate action is taken and messages are accurately passed to the relevant staff members.
- To deal confidentially and sensitively with telephone calls and face to face contact from clients and others
- To deal with incoming mail on a daily basis, distributing and taking appropriate action as necessary, ensuring urgent matters are brought to the attention of the appropriate member of staff
- Ability to maintain accurate and clear records regarding referrals, waiting lists, records of appointments both written and computerised
- Use a range of IT packages including Word and Excel, Internet and Email, EMIS and Malinko
- Log referrals onto EMIS and Malinko
- Ability to deal with occasional distressing situations
- To be able to work unsupervised and respond to situations which may arise requiring autonomous advice and decision making
- Undertake any training for the development of this post in conjunction with your own personal development
Please click here to view our Care and Compassion Day video
Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.
If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £25.50, Standard DBS check £25.50 and Enhanced DBS check £53.50.
You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £16. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.
Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.
DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.
By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.
The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.
Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.
Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Meini prawf hanfodol
- ECDL or equivalent experience of using Microsoft packages
Meini prawf dymunol
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Experience & Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working within an administrative environment and working with computerised data systems
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Team working
- Experience of working and liaising with staff and professionals at all levels
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working in a health care environment.
- Previous experience of NHS Systems such as HISS, EMIS, CIVICA
Skills & Ability
Meini prawf hanfodol
- IT Skills
- Organisational skills
- Excellent telephone manner good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Able to deal with aggressive behaviour
- Car owner/driver and possess full UK driver’s license, or be mobile and able to work from other when required
- Flexible approach
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Jessica Pilling
- Teitl y swydd
- Associate Directorate Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01253 957003
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