Secretary / Administration Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an Administration Assistant within the Clinical Engineering Department at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive administrative support, including processing servicing schedules, maintaining records, handling correspondence, raising purchase orders, and generating reports. This position is crucial for supporting the senior team and ensuring operational excellence in medical device management.
Essential criteria
- English & Maths
- Significant office experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience gained working in an Engineering background.
- Good organisational skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Attitude and Aptitude
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- English & Maths
- Significant office experience.
- Experience gained working in an Engineering background.
- Good organisational skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Attitude and Aptitude
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Secretary / Administration Assistant
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Clinical Engineering Department at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (NNUHFT) for a Band 3 Administration Assistant.
The Clinical Engineering Department directly and indirectly maintains the 26,000 medical devices within the NNUHFT and Cromer Hospitals.
The Admin Team performs a vital role by providing comprehensive administrative support to the senior members of the team.
Interview date: 08 and 09 October 2026.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an organised and detail-oriented Administration Assistant to join our Clinical Engineering team at NNUH. In this role, you will:
- Provide general administrative support to the Clinical Engineering Department. For example, processing monthly servicing schedules and monthly reports of expenditure, maintaining filing and records systems, receiving telephone calls and dealing with them appropriately, handling department correspondence both internally and externally to the trust
- Raise purchase orders for spare parts, stationery, repairs to equipment and chase outstanding orders
- Generate and interpret reporting which form the service key performance indicators.
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