Children's Single Point of Access Administration Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
The post holder will work within the centrally managed Children's Single Point of Access Administration (C-SPA) team, providing comprehensive administrative support to clinical staff across Children's Community Nursing, Children's Community Asthma, and the Children and Young People's Bladder and Bowel Services. This role involves ensuring effective coordination and delivery of administrative and clerical functions, accurate recording of activity, and acting as a first point of contact for service users. The position requires a team-based approach with flexible cover as needed, and involves secretarial duties and acting as a telephone agent.
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills, i.e. Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Written communication and Spelling
Desirable criteria
- SystmOne
- Typing and Spelling test
- RSA Stage 1 or 2 Typing
- Microsoft Office
- Knowledge and Experience
- Verbal communication
- Team working
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Organisation and prioritisation
- Initiative
- Administration experience
- M365 and Typing
- Good IT skills, i.e. Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Written communication and Spelling
- SystmOne
- Typing and Spelling test
- RSA Stage 1 or 2 Typing
- Microsoft Office
- Knowledge and Experience
- Verbal communication
- Team working
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Organisation and prioritisation
- Initiative
- Administration experience
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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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Children's Single Point of Access Administration Assistant
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder will work within the centrally managed Children's Single Point of Access Administration (C-SPA) team, providing a comprehensive administrative service to support clinical staff across Children's Community Nursing, Children's Community Asthma, and the Children and Young People's Bladder and Bowel Services ('the Services'), ensuring effective coordination and delivery of administrative and clerical functions as directed by the Administration Manager.
The post holder will ensure the timely and accurate recording of all activity across the Services using Trust and partnership information systems.
The centralised service requires a team-based approach to ensure cover during periods of absence across all the Services and locations; the post holder will therefore be expected, on occasion, to provide flexible cover as needed.
Post holders, as appropriate, will be required to provide secretarial duties on behalf of the Services. Post holders will also act as telephone agents and will ensure that the Trust's commitments to customer service and immediate access is a priority.
Main duties of the job
Provide comprehensive administrative support to clinical teams, ensuring accurate and timely recordin
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