Administration Advisor - Contact Centre | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Administration Advisor / Reception Cover
To work across x 3 sites /Hertford County / QE2 / Lister / Monday to Friday / 08:30 - 17:00
We are recruiting for an Administration Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
If you’re looking for a fast-paced, varied role and enjoy a customer-care type position, this will be an exciting job for you.
Our clerks are trained to support a patient’s pathway through Outpatients, from referral to treatment, so in this role you can really make a difference.
You could work in our busy outpatient clinics, on the outpatient reception desk, and in our Outpatient Contact Centre, using various appointment computer systems to book, cancel and answer patient appointment enquiries on the telephone.
If you’ve got excellent communication and people-skills and enjoy working as part of a team, then this role will give you great job satisfaction. It is also a great stepping-stone to career progression within the NHS, with excellent promotion opportunities within the Trust.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
To liaise with patients and Trust colleagues, face-to-face, by telephone and by e-mail, to ensure patient’s appointments are booked, cancelled and monitored efficiently.
You will regularly work at the reception at outpatient clinics and also answer the Trust’s Appointment Line dealing with patients’ appointment queries.
General office administration & duties, including opening & distributing post, emails, deal with routine correspondence & highlight correspondence of an urgent nature, photocopying, filing.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Applicant information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Oct 2024