Administrative Assistant - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Colchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We have an exciting opportunity administrative assistant post based at Colchester Hospital, Children's Department. This is a part-time post, 20 hours per week over 4 days.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person who is flexible and has excellent administration and communication skills.

The role requires you to work part of a secretarial team, in a busy and vibrant office.

Attention to detail is a must as are excellent communication skills and the ability to prioritise and plan as well work without direct supervision.

Duties will include, dealing with telephone queries, managing, dealing with incoming and outgoing mail including admin and GP letters, as well as other various tasks requested.

You will be required to ensure that a high standard of administrative is consistently delivered by undertaking all required tasks and activities on a daily basis.

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.

Dealing with incoming telephone calls from parents/relatives/GP/Other tertiary hospitals.
Passing on queries/messages to the relevant Medical PA/Support secretary using the correctlocal procedure and form. Scanning / Logging all relevant telephone contacts on to the Portalsystem.
To be able to communicate effectively with the rest of the team.
Be aware at all times the importance of maintaining confidentiality of information gained by you during the course of your duties including personal information relating to patients. You must treat all information in a discreet and confidential manner and keep it secure.

For full details of the duties and responsibilities of this role, please see attached job description.