Administration Officer (EG)CP50inEdinburghinEdinburghPUBLISHED THU 27 MAR 2025
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As an Administration Officer, you'll deliver essential secretarial support across various SMART service areas, ensuring that our patients receive outstanding care. Your friendly and calm approach will help you oversee a small team while also collaborating with others to drive service improvements. At the SMART Centre, you’ll be part of a caring community, providing crucial administrative functions for services that enhance the lives of adults and children facing mobility challenges, including prosthetics, orthotics, and driving assessments. If you're ready to make a meaningful difference, we welcome your application!
Ready to take the next step in your career? For informal enquiries, please reach out to Matthew Reid or Lynda Campbell at our Edinburgh office. Don’t wait—apply early as we anticipate a high interest in this role!
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Job Title
Administrative Officer
Vacancy Details
AFC Band 3. Salary range £26,869 to £28,998 (depending on experience)
Permanent
WTE 37 hours per week
Duties And Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
Provide administrative and secretarial support to all SMART service areas ensuring delivery of effective and efficient patient services, and support service improvements as required.
Responsibility for day to day supervision of Band 2 Administrative Assistants in SMART.
Assist the Admin Team Leads in operational matters as and when required.
Key Requirements
We are looking for an individual who has a “can do” attitude, is flexible and motivated. Good interpersonal and communication skills will be required for this role. You need to be able to remain calm in stressful situations. As well as having an ability to work on your own, you need to be able to work as part of a team and share knowledge and learning.
Further Information
The SMART Centre provides services for adults and children who have a permanent disability affecting their mobility. These include mobility and postural services (Wheelchairs and Special Seating), Prosthetics, Orthotics and Bioengineering Services, Electronic Assistive Technologies, Blue Badge Independent Mobility Assessment (Edinburgh only), Custom Needs Design Service, a Disabled Living Centre and Gait Analysis Service.
In addition the SMART Centre provides the National Scottish Driving Assessment Service as well as hosting various other clinical services such as, Podiatry, Spinal Injuries Clinic, Spasticity Management Clinic and other outpatient clinics.
As part of the Admin team you will help provide comprehensive administrative support to all the above services.
How To Apply
Informal enquiries to
Matthew Reid, Team Lead on or
Lynda Campbell, Business Manager on
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
- Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**
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