Administrative Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

apartmentNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust placeWhitley Bay calendar_month 

We are looking to recruit an experienced administrator to join our Wheelchair Service Administration team. This is a varied and interesting role and you will be working in our new, bespoke Wheelchair Centre.

Candidates should be educated to GCSE's grades A-C, have excellent keyboard and word processing skills, excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work under pressure.

As we support a large geographical area we are a very busy team but with this comes a lot of job satisfaction.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
  • To provide comprehensive, administrative, IT and clerical support for all staff within the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Wheelchair Service.
  • To work flexibly within a team, providing support to colleagues and the multidisciplinary team and provide cover for other administrative and clerical staff when required, on a shared basis.
  • To present a user-friendly and accessible service for the public.
  • To deal with reception & telephone enquiries effectively and efficiently.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.
Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?
You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Dealing with incoming telephone calls

Managing and processing email queries

Recording referrals, re-referrals and prescriptions on our electronic systems

Arranging delivery and handover of wheelchairs

Recording issued equipment on our electronic systems

Scanning documents

Photocopying

Arranging appointments and reception duties when required

Supporting data collection

Supporting the wider service team and our patients

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025

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