Undergraduate Administrator

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Faculty of Education, for a people focussed Undergraduate Administrator. This role is a vital part of the development of medical students being supported through their medical placements with the Trust and going on to become Foundation Doctors.

If you are a motivated person with the ability to work well within a busy and rewarding environment, and wish to support and contribute to the delivery of high quality training environment, we would love to hear from you.
- To co-ordinate, organise and administer the undergraduate programme including placements, programmes of training and the implementation of national and local requirements.
- Liaise and correspond with student doctors on a regular basis regarding teaching timetables and updates and resolve outstanding issues.
- To lead on preparing honorary contracts, course/learning information and delivering an in-person induction for each group of medical students.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- To liaise with the Clinical Sub-Dean, medical schools, consultants and the wider healthcare team about placements and programmes of training and to provide administrative support to enable the provision of this.
- To liaise with the Clinical Sub-Dean for Undergraduate studies regarding the direction of the undergraduate programme
- Act as first point of contact for undergraduate enquiries and maintain key local reference information.
- Responsible for the provision and availability of rooms, equipment and any materials as necessary in advance to ensure smooth running of classroom based teaching.

Full details in the Role Description below.