Support Secretary - Chester, United Kingdom - Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
3 weeks ago
Description
Job overviewWorking Full time: 37.5 hours per week
The Head & Neck Directorate is well established within the Trust, with a team of dedicated clinical and administrative staff who strive to provide an excellent service to the patients in the population served by the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Good communication skills are essential as the post holder will need to liaise directly with patients, consultants and other hospital staff.
A working knowledge of general office procedures and Microsoft packages is required but full training will be given in the use of hospital software.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital:
providing 438 general and acute beds
Ellesmere Port Hospital:
providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
Tarporley War Memorial Hospital:
a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.
This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
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