Office Administrator Nursing & Allied Health

37 hours and Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity for a capable administrator to join our administrative service that provides support to our academic Schools within the University. In particular you will support the School of Nursing and Allied Health that delivers a number of professional and academic health programmes. These programmes also include professional placements.

In this role, you will deal with a number of administrative tasks, joining the Senior Office Administrator as the key focal point for academic staff across their activities. 

Your pro-active involvement will allow academic colleagues from across the Schools to concentrate on their core commitments to students and research. Key duties of the role will include: 

• Assisting the Senior Office Administrator in areas such as servicing meetings
• Work placement allocations
• Monitoring absences and registrations of students
• Booking external training and conferences
• Co-ordinating and supporting the delivery of events including catering, room booking etc. 
• Any other duties commensurate with the role.

Reporting to the Office Manager, you will have confidence in the use of MS Outlook, MS Teams, MS Word and MS Excel, alongside strong problem-solving skills. You will have a commitment to providing excellent, proactive customer service and an ability to develop effective relationships across different departments (internally and externally) within the University and Service Care Users and also liaising with external agencies such as the NHS. You will possess excellent numeracy, analytical and literacy skills and should be able to demonstrate well-developed organisational skills, including the ability to work co-operatively in small teams as well as on your own initiative. 

Informal enquiries about this opportunity are very welcome. Please contact Nicola Chater, at nicola.chater@staff.newman.ac.uk, to discuss the role further.

An application form and further details about this role are available from newman.ac.uk/jobs. 

Please complete your application via the ‘Apply’ button above.

(Please note that CVs are not accepted as part of the application process unless explicitly stated).

Interview date to be confirmed

Birmingham Newman University offers a wide range of staff benefits including 35 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time posts), pension scheme, chaplaincy and spiritual care, library services, free on-site parking, discounted travel scheme, cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme, occupational health and counselling services and staff development opportunities. Further details of the full range of staff benefits available can be found on our website: https://www.newman.ac.uk/knowledge-base/staff-benefits/ or please contact the Human Resources Department.

Birmingham Newman University is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Birmingham Newman University is located on Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B32 3NT.

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