Clerical Assistant

Nnuh Colney Lane; Colney; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Multi Faith prayer room at Colney Lane

Discounted gym memberships

Excellent pension scheme

On-site nursery

Free Park & Ride service

Counselling support

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) in Colney Lane, Norwich, is seeking an administrative post in the Histopathology Department. The role supports medical secretaries and consultant pathologists, with responsibilities including preparing reports and slides for MDT meetings, filing, and handling service user queries.

Office-based at the Cotman Centre, you will learn administrative practices within a busy, modern NHS laboratory service, contributing to a move towards digital pathology

Qualifications

• Organising reports and retrieving slides for MDT meetings.
• Filing tasks and handling queries from service users and staff.
• Entering patient data on the Pathology computer system.

Responsibilities

• Organising reports and retrieving slides for MDT meetings across specialisms.
• Liaising with staff from other departments and hospitals via nhs.net and Outlook.
• Entering patient data into the Pathology computer system.
• Assisting with data collection for reports and scanning/retrieving reports.

Skills

Organising reports

Liaison communication

Data entry

Typing duties

Administration

Tools

Pathology computer system

NHS email (nhs.net)

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.

• Organising reports and retrieving slides for Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings for a range of specialisms within the trust.
• Liaising with members of staff from other departments and hospitals (via telephone, nhs.net and NNUH outlook).
• Entering patient data on the Pathology computer system.
• Assisting with the collection of data for reports.
• Sorting post, filing and scanning paper reports plus retrieving and filing reports and slides.
• Assisting with typing duties for macroscopic digital dictation (in-house training will be given).
• Assisting with laboratory administration duties, if required.

Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

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