Job summary
Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Administrator will be responsible for administrating, managing and supporting all phases of the Health Technologies programme in line with the published processes. The administrator will have a portfolio of projects that they take administrative lead for, including support for public committee meetings.
The post holder should be able to demonstrate the following:
- Provide efficient and effective administrative and secretarial support to team members, including preparing correspondence and papers, collating, copying and distributing papers and managing diaries.
- Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise work on different projects to meet deadlines which may be conflicting.
- Ability to communicate confidently with individuals at all levels both within and outside the organisation, applying the appropriate use of tact and persuasive skills as appropriate.
- Knowledge of work procedures to manage routine office tasks, such as records management, diary management and facilitating meetings.
- Deal with day-to-day enquiries by email, phone, and letter referring to other members of the team as appropriate.
- Provide administration support for committees and/or groups relevant to the projects for which you have responsibility.
- Plan and organise activities and own day-to-day work
- Experience of introducing, developing, and maintaining systems and administrative procedures
About us
The Centre for Health Technology Evaluation develops guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, medical devices, diagnostics, treatments and procedures within the NHS.
As part of the Centre's work on evaluating health technologies, the Health Technologies Programme (Diagnostics) provides specialist capacity to evaluate innovative diagnostic technologies (including genetic tests, other in-vitro diagnostics and imaging systems) and develops guidance on the effective and cost-effective use of these products for the NHS.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of the job role and skill required through work experience, training and development, or: (A/I) Relevant undergraduate degree, or equivalent qualification (e.g. non-English qualification), NVQ Levels 4/5, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification, A levels or NVQ Level 3 or ONC/OND/BTec Levels 2/3, CPP, or equivalent qualification (e.g. non-English qualification) plus relevant experience or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of introducing, developing, and maintaining systems and administrative procedures
- Experience of providing administrative support for multiple projects
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of work procedures to manage routine office tasks, such as records management, diary management and facilitating meetings.
- Ability to communicate confidently with individuals at all levels both within and outside the organisation, applying the appropriate use of tact and persuasive skills as appropriate.
- Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise work on different projects to meet deadlines which may be conflicting.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of the job role and skill required through work experience, training and development, or: (A/I) Relevant undergraduate degree, or equivalent qualification (e.g. non-English qualification), NVQ Levels 4/5, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification, A levels or NVQ Level 3 or ONC/OND/BTec Levels 2/3, CPP, or equivalent qualification (e.g. non-English qualification) plus relevant experience or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience and further training/development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of introducing, developing, and maintaining systems and administrative procedures
- Experience of providing administrative support for multiple projects
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of work procedures to manage routine office tasks, such as records management, diary management and facilitating meetings.
- Ability to communicate confidently with individuals at all levels both within and outside the organisation, applying the appropriate use of tact and persuasive skills as appropriate.
- Ability to co-ordinate and prioritise work on different projects to meet deadlines which may be conflicting.
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.
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.
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).
