Administrative Assistant

BUPA; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Volunteer days

Pension & life insurance

Health insurance

Dental cover

Digital GP

Wellbeing support

Financial wellbeing

Carer support

Job summary

Bupa Mindplace Edgbaston currently seeks an Administrative Assistant to join our reception and administrative team, supporting the centre’s day-to-day operations in Birmingham. This permanent, full-time role offers 37.5 hours per week.

You will greet customers, manage paperwork, coordinate appointments, process invoices and reports, maintain a tidy reception, and ensure high standards of service across all interactions.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Deliver outstanding customer service by being friendly and welcoming.
• Administrative and reception experience.
• Well organised, reliable and proactive attitude.
• Computer literate.
• Knowledge of medical terminology (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Greet and welcome customers and support the customer journey through the centre to checkout.
• Answer, screen and forward queries via phone and emails, manage mailbox.
• Maintain a well-presented reception and waiting areas.
• Ensure reports are dispatched within the desired time frame and manage abnormal results.
• Ensure customers have correct paperwork (appointment packs, clinical file, consent forms).
• Manage results (receiving, scanning, uploading) and follow up with suppliers to meet SLA.
• Ensure customer details, appointments, payments, invoices and credits are processed correctly.
• Organise self to ensure quick document turnaround and meet deadlines.
• Post handling: collect, open, date stamp, distribute and send post.
• Generate letters as required by the business.
• Monitor stocks and order goods when required.
• Process invoices/delivery notes per Bupa policy.
• Contribute to well-presented facilities through proactive escalation when needed.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Administrative experience

Organisation

Computer literacy

Medical terminology (desirable)

Job description

Job Description:

Administrative Assistant

Bupa Mindplace Edgbaston, Harborne Court, 67-69 Harborne Rd, Birmingham B15 3BU

Permanent. Full time, 37.5 hours.

£27,900 per annum plus excellent benefits

Monday to Friday on shifts between 8am - 10pm & rotational Saturdays 9am - 5pm

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe caring for your mind should feel as natural as caring for your body. That's why we're creating dedicated spaces with expert face-to-face support, grounded in nearly 80 years of trusted Bupa care. As an employee at Bupa, our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients every day.

We make health happen

We are looking for a dedicated individual to efficiently and effectively manage all administrative and receptionist activities. This role is essential for the smooth operation of our centre and is crucial in providing outstanding customer service. You will be a key support network, ensuring that every interaction with our customers, both adults and children, is special and memorable. Your commitment to excellent service will help create positive experiences for everyone who visits us.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Greeting and welcoming customers in addition to supporting the customer journey throughout the centre right through to a thorough checkout
• Answering, screening and forwarding incoming customer queries via phone calls and proactively managing local mailbox and emails
• Proactive in maintaining a well-presented reception and waiting areas
• Ensuring customer reports are dispatched from centres within the desired time frame. This includes effective management of abnormal results
• Ensure all customers have the correct paperwork to support their visit - appointment packs (where applicable), clinical file preparation and consent forms
• Effective results management (including receiving, scanning, and uploading) and follow-up of suppliers to ensure turnaround within the agreed SLA
• Ensure all customer details are correct, customers have arrived, appointments booked, changed, and rescheduled on EXACT/BOSS/Meddbase. Process of payments, invoices, added charges and credit notes upon customer departure
• Organise self to ensure a quick turnaround of documents, working in date order and prioritising to meet deadlines
• Post - collect, open, date stamp, distribute incoming post, and post outgoing post.
• Generate letters as required by the business.
• Monitor stocks and order goods when required.
• Process invoices/delivery notes as per Bupa policy
• Play an active part in ensuring well-presented facilities through pro-activity and effective escalation as and when required.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Deliver an outstanding customer service by being friendly and welcoming
• Administrative and reception experience
• Well organised, reliable and have a proactive attitudel
• Computer literate
• Knowledge of medical terminology (desirable)

Personal characteristics:

• Flexible with hours, days and shift patterns
• Adaptable to a changing environment
• Resilient and driven to provide a world class service in challenging situations
• Well-developed communication skills.
• Effective time management.
• Ability to work autonomously in a busy environment.Understanding of the business environment.
• Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team

Benefits:

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more.

• 25 days' holiday (increasing with service) + option to buy/sell
• 3 paid volunteering days
• Enhanced pension & life insurance
• Bupa health insurance
• Discounted dental cover
• Digital GP access
• Emotional and family wellbeing support
• Financial wellbeing resources
• Support for carers

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Administration

Locations: Mindplace Edgbaston