Team Administrator | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2025 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA1 4JJ |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7523378/351-SPS1477-JD |
Summary
Applications are invited for a Band 3 Team Administrator to provide a comprehensive secretarial administration and information service across the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team, and coordinate their activities with other members of the administration team to ensure an efficient and confidential service is provided.
The post holder will be aligned to the SPCMHT, covering the North Lancs & South Cumbria locality based at East Barn in Lancaster, but is required to provide ad hoc remote cross cover to other administrative teams within the service as directed by their Administration Line Manager to ensure continuity of service provision.
Evidence of good general education is essential together with good communication skills and excellent organisation ability. Knowledge of working with the NHS will be an advantage and computer skills with essential.
The successful candidate with require a mature, flexible approach and the ability to work within a busy team. They will be expected to use their own initiative and work unsupervised to ensure the effective coordination of duties.
• Receive allocate and despatch internal /external mail in line with the Trust policy.
• To be the first point of contact for the unit/department providing a comprehensive customer service and enquiry provision to internal and external customers of the Trust.
• Provide a comprehensive administrative service which will include minute taking, cover compilation of reports and other correspondence on behalf of the team manager and other members of the team, ensuring a high standard in accordance with Trust standards.
• To create and maintain effective working relationships with staff at all levels, internal and external across the whole health economy.
• Work collaboratively with the appropriate management teams and other departments including clinicians to ensure that the appropriate leads are notified in the case of matters of urgency and dealt with in a timely manner.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 16 Oct 2025