MSSSC Administrator

Full job description
The Manchester Surgical Skills and Simulation Centre (MSSSC) is housed in the Stopford Building at the University of Manchester on Oxford Road. The Centre has extensive modern facilities largely focused on surgical training needs. A key facet is the ability and focus to utilise human cadavers for training and simulation, under the auspices of the required HTA licence.

This is an exciting opportunity for an emerging or experienced administrator, ideally with experience in Medical Education, to join us as our team grows and develops to support our operational footprint across Greater Manchester. The successful applicant will join a highly experienced and friendly team based at Manchester Surgical Skills and Simulation Centre.

Our wider team is a dynamic mix of clinicians, managers, educators and administrators, offering the opportunity to engage with interesting and important workstreams.

You will have highly proficient IT skills and will require experience using all Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to Word, Outlook, Teams, Excel, SharePoint and MS Forms.

You are expected to provide a high level of organisation skills, included but not limited to diary, e-mail management and note-taking.

You will have the ability to produce high quality business documents and also deal with routine and non-routine activities that arise. The ability to problem-solve and proactively monitor MSSSC work-streams is fundamental to the role.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals community services from across Manchester, Trafford beyond, we champion collaborative working transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient staff experience, operational effectiveness driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .

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