The Havens Receptionist

King's College Hospital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a full-time Band 2 Receptionist for The Havens, London. The role involves welcoming clients, handling calls, registering patients, and coordinating appointments across sites, with cross-site work expected.

You will manage sensitive information with care and accuracy within Havens systems. The post requires strong clerical skills, data entry proficiency, and the ability to work within NHS guidelines while supporting a high-quality

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level including English and Mathematics.
• Experience in general clerical/admin and reception duties.
• NVQ or administrative qualification such as ILM 3, 4 or 5.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the reception and administration rota, delivering a friendly, professional service.
• Answer calls, take messages and refer callers to staff while maintaining confidentiality.
• Enter data into Havens systems and manage client appointments and referrals.

Skills

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Access

Education

GCSE English and Maths

General clerical/admin experience

NVQ/ILM 3/4/5

Job description

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Havens Pan London - Camberwell, Ladbroke Grove, Whitechapel Town London Salary £31,066 per annum, including HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The Havens is recruiting a full time Band 2 Receptionist to join our dedicated team.

The Havens are London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) located in Camberwell, Paddington (Ladbroke Grove) and Whitechapel, providing 24/7 (365 per year) forensic medical examinations and care to people disclosing rape or sexual assault.

This post will be predominately based at our Haven Paddington and Haven Whitechapel sites although regular cross site working is expected. Working pattern is Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) 9am to 5pm shifts, with a 12 noon to 8pm shift (maximum once per week, typically once every two weeks -at the time of publication, awaiting an implementation date)

The post holder will work as part of team in facilitating a high quality customer-focussed reception service including: taking and transferring calls (including client calls), registering clients, booking in clients on arrival, directing clients to the appropriate staff and preparing and administering clinical proformas and client files. The post-holder will be responsible for entering highly sensitive information onto the Havens systems. This involves sexual assault information which may be used in criminal investigations. The data entry needs to be accurate so attention to detail is crucial.

Main duties of the job

To be part of the reception and administration rota providing a friendly, professional and welcoming reception and administration service.

Working for our organisation

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be part of the reception and administration rota providing a friendly, professional and welcoming reception and administration service.
• To answer telephone calls, take messages and respond to calls including those from clients and police enquiries in a courteous and professional manner, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• To refer callers to the appropriate staff members in a timely manner.
• To act as the first point of contact for clients returning to the Havens follow-up services and booking and managing follow up appointments for clients.
• To undertake data entry (client and other data) and uploading of documents to the Havens client management system(s), databases and spreadsheet trackers.
• To send external referrals and other shared data and documents, including to police, GPs, social care ensuring strict adherence to information governance security and confidentiality.
• To liaise closely with clinical colleagues to ensure that clinics and appointments are run well, including virtual appointments, appointment reminders and the administration required to support such.
• To provide clinical administration support which will include liaison with partner services and referrers, arranging client appointments and providing pre and post clinic and appointment administration.
• Ensure clients are logged in and out of Havens clinics on the Havens appointment system.
• To review, distribute and action incoming emails received within service generic mailboxes.
• To undertake photocopying, scanning, notes archiving.
• To assist in maintaining the smooth running of office equipment.
• To support monitoring and ordering of stock, including stationery and basic clinical supplies.
• To use email and computer programmes as effective business and communication tools.
• To assist administrators in providing a confidential secretarial typing service for Havens clinicians.
• To communicate with other admin staff and the post-holder’s line manager on issues relating to administration and reception, and where appropriate take action as directed by the management team.
• To adhere to all Haven policies, procedures and quality standards and generally assist in the smooth running of the Havens.
• Action promptly and effectively statements, notes requests and court warnings.
• To attend, engage and prepare for own One2One supervision sessions with line manager.
• To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE levels or equivalent including English and Mathematics
• Experience in general clerical/admin and reception duties working with the public
• NVQ or administrative qualification such as ILM 3, 4 or 5

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience of entering data into databases and spreadsheets
• Experience of working within the NHS
• Experience working within a service for people with vulnerabilities/safeguarding issues

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to liaise appropriately with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds including professionals and service users
• Good typing and multidisciplinary skills
• Excellent PC skills, Experience of working with PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Access with good keyboard skills
• Awareness of confidentiality issues
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to deal with stressful and often upsetting information
• Ability to work on own initiative and to plan, structure and prioritise own workload
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Flexible and responsive to changing priorities in a busy environmentAbility to work under pressure
• Systemic, methodical approach to work
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
• Knowledge of issues affecting survivors of sexual assault

Personal Qualities

• Self motivated
• Confident
• Seek advice/help when required
• Good work attendance record
• Good time keeping

Other requirements

• Ability to problem solve

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