• Job Description

  Req#: C9190-25-0744?language=en&page=454&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Supporting the North of England Pathology and Screening Education Centre to provide a full and comprehensive administration service for the training of the scientific workforce for NHS Cancer Screening Programmes and other related laboratory medicine and pathology network specialities.

  To provide a high quality and professional administration and clerical service to the North of England Pathology & Screening Education Centre and the Management Team.

  Under the guidance of the Business Manager and Training Facilitators the post holder will be required to establish and maintain a full, well-organised administrative service and be able to meet the needs of the Education Centre service users and staff.

  Main duties of the job

  • Act as the primary point of contact, handling telephone calls, inquiries, and resolving problems or redirecting calls as needed.
  • To provide a full confidential and comprehensive administrative support to training team including training facilitators and NEPSEC staff involved in the trainings.
  • Development of standard operating procedures with collaboration with Business and training analyst, and under the supervision of the business manager.
  • To provide a full administrative service for Cervical Sample Taker Initial Training programs of learning, which are complex and sensitive by nature, ensuring course participants are advised appropriately in line with NHS England and UKHSA guidance in a calm, motivational, sensitive and where co-operation is required, in a persuasive manner.
  • To record and raise issues in training to Business Manager or Training Centre Manager

  About us

  You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

  The NEPSEC Team is a small but dedicated team of Administrators, Business/Training Managers, and appropriate directorship. We are located off hospital trust premises in a bespoke training facility on the outskirts of Wakefield where it is central to the overall customer base, which stretches the length and breadth of the North of England.

  The facilities consist of a main administration office and a number of training rooms, including the largest specialist microscopy teaching suite in England and a multi-head microscope teaching room.

  There is free on-site parking adjacent to the training facilities, which resides in a business park with easy access to a gym, hotels, and a new Costa and Greggs drive-thru. The facility is located just off the M1 motorway corridor and within easy reach of Ossett Town and Wakefield City Centre.

  Details

  Date posted

  23 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £26,530 to £29,114 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  190-0514-DIR

  Job locations

  NEPSEC, Unit 3 Wakefield Office Village

  3 Fryers Way

  Wakefield

  WF5 9TJ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

  When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

  When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

  Person Specification

  Education & Qualifications

  Essential

  • GCSE C/4 or above including Mathematics and English
  • Level 4 qualifications e.g. NVQ, HNC, BTEC, Apprentiship or Foundation Level Degree or significant demonstrable and relevant experience

  Desirable

  • OCR or RCA III typing or equivalent word processing skills or proven skills to the equivalent standard
  • NVQ in Business & Administrator or demonstrable experience at that level

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in a range of office support processes, supporting senior technical and/or educational management staff
  • Experience with IT presentation systems and associated software
  • Experience of general office duties, including taking minutes
  • Experience in operating under and following SOPs
  • Demonstrable leadership qualities

  Desirable

  • Experience in creating and editing SOPs within own areas of competence
  • Experience of processing and managing financial payments
  • Previous experience working in the NHS or another health related or social care provider

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including effective telephone communication
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS-Office packages to include Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
  • Customer Services training or demonstrable experience
  • Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work effectively with minimal direct supervision
  • Willing to participate in Annual Review

  Desirable

  • Able to set up, use and troubleshoot video calling/conferencing systems or equipment

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Excellent organisational skills and office management
  • Committed to personal and professional development and completion of mandatory and job specific requirements
  • Willingness to work flexibly and remotely from the workplace or alone from within the workplace

  Person Specification

  Education & Qualifications

  Essential

  • GCSE C/4 or above including Mathematics and English
  • Level 4 qualifications e.g. NVQ, HNC, BTEC, Apprentiship or Foundation Level Degree or significant demonstrable and relevant experience

  Desirable

  • OCR or RCA III typing or equivalent word processing skills or proven skills to the equivalent standard
  • NVQ in Business & Administrator or demonstrable experience at that level

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in a range of office support processes, supporting senior technical and/or educational management staff
  • Experience with IT presentation systems and associated software
  • Experience of general office duties, including taking minutes
  • Experience in operating under and following SOPs
  • Demonstrable leadership qualities

  Desirable

  • Experience in creating and editing SOPs within own areas of competence
  • Experience of processing and managing financial payments
  • Previous experience working in the NHS or another health related or social care provider

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including effective telephone communication
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS-Office packages to include Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
  • Customer Services training or demonstrable experience
  • Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work effectively with minimal direct supervision
  • Willing to participate in Annual Review

  Desirable

  • Able to set up, use and troubleshoot video calling/conferencing systems or equipment

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Excellent organisational skills and office management
  • Committed to personal and professional development and completion of mandatory and job specific requirements
  • Willingness to work flexibly and remotely from the workplace or alone from within the workplace

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  NEPSEC, Unit 3 Wakefield Office Village

  3 Fryers Way

  Wakefield

  WF5 9TJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  NEPSEC, Unit 3 Wakefield Office Village

  3 Fryers Way

  Wakefield

  WF5 9TJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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