Clerical Assistant

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Colney; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

NHS pension scheme

Discounted gym memberships

On-site Nursery

Job summary

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an office-based administrator in the Histopathology Department. You will support medical secretaries and consultants, prepare reports and slides for meetings, handle post, and respond to queries from staff and service users in a busy, modern hospital laboratory service.

The role contributes to a move towards digital pathology reporting and offers NHS benefits and flexible working options.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative roles within a busy healthcare environment.
• Good organisational and filing skills.
• Proficient with PC and MS Office; typing required.
• Ability to handle queries from service users and staff.

Responsibilities

• Prepare reports and documentation for meetings and records.
• Handle filing tasks and postal processing.
• Answer queries from service users, Histopathologists and lab staff.
• Support medical secretaries and consultants with typing and PC work.

Skills

Administrative support

Filing

Communication

Typing

MS Office

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

This is an office-based post within the Histopathology Department (located at the Cotman Centre), which forms part of the Cellular Pathology directorate. The department has a workload of around 83,000 patient requests per year. This presents an opportunity to be part of an excellent team working in a busy, modern, progressive hospital laboratory service.

Histopathology receives and processes patient samples to provide diagnostic reports to hospital clinicians and General Practitioners. This is a good opportunity to learn administrative work practices and work with a committed team of office, laboratory and consultant staff.

The service is currently moving towards a full digital pathology reporting.

The role will provide an important supporting role to the medical secretaries and consultant pathologists. Your main duties will include; preparing reports and microscope slides for over 25 multidisciplinary team meetings, filing tasks, handling queries from service users, Histopathologists and lab staff, processing post and sending away referral and research work, some typing work and PC work.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amanda Howard Job title: Administration Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01603 286014