Administrator | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2026 |
| Location: | Cambourne, CB23 6EA |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7691145/310-OPAC-7385374-A |
Summary
Are you ready to take on a role that’s far from your typical admin position? We’re looking for a Resource Support Administrator to join our dynamic OPAC (Older People and Adult Community Services) administration team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative remodel designed to provide essential support to our clinical services—enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most: delivering outstanding patient care.
We have redefining what it means to be an administrator, as a key cog in the wider NHS system, your work will directly impact the quality of care provided to patients across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. This role requires autonomous working, the ability to manage tasks independently, and regular travel across the county, with your primary sites in the Cambridge area.
You’ll be part of an award-winning team making a real difference, enjoy a role with variety, responsibility, development and impact & contribute to improving patient care across the county.
The post holder will be providing site administration support to the older peoples & adult community service’s clinicians of varying professions, working in a team of 8 Administrators covering our community base sites across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
The main principle of the Administration service is to ensure the provision of a professional & competent service to enable our clinical colleagues to concentrate on patient care.
We aim to do so by ensuring professional leadership, excellent training & development opportunities for admin staff & standardised processes.
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
Main duties include:
• Responsible for weekly procurement across multiple teams of varying professions & differing requirements. Inclusive of ordering, receipting, unpacking & stock balancing of all deliveries within service remit of medical consumables, stationery, electronical and non-electronical devices.
• Responsible for the management of Specialist Patient Orders, liaising directly with suppliers, patients and care providers.
• Responsible for the management of all OPAC uniform, inclusive of laundering, stock control, procurement whilst ensuring uniform policy compliance.
• Ensuring that Trust & service level information resource compliancy is adhered to, inclusive of replenishment & ordering from third parties.
• Responsible for medical device compliance, including servicing & repair of essential clinical equipment by liaising with third party organisations.
• Perform manual handling tasks as required, including lifting and moving medical equipment and supplies.
• Inputting and updating service user information and service user/team activity on computerised information systems, creating service user notes where necessary and according to policy.
• Maintain filing in both paper and electronic records, ensuring that it is always kept up to date in accordance with Trust procedures.
• Effectively manage and prioritise your own workload while working autonomously across multiple sites. Ensure adherence to lone working protocols and maintain a strong focus on personal safety at all times.
• Countywide travel to 20+ locations as required by service needs. Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.
• Reception duties as directed.
• Provide operational support, supervision, training, mentorship, and cover to/of colleagues as directed by line manager.
• Providing a high level of administrative support to our clinical teams, building good professional relationships whilst setting & ensuring remit boundaries.
• This is not a comprehensive list of all duties. Additional duties may be assigned as necessary to support the evolving needs of the organisation, provided they remain consistent with the scope and grading of your role
This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026