UEC Clerical Assistant

Enherts Tr; Stevenage; Remote; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking an Urgent & Emergency Care Clerical Assistant to support the Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre across Lister Hospital in Stevenage and Welwyn. The role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, offering weekend and Bank Holiday enhancements.

You will work independently and within a multi-disciplinary team, handling reception duties, data entry, and clerical support, across sites and handling enquiries with confidentiality.

Qualifications

• GCSE Level or equivalent.
• Basic numeracy and literacy.
• Customer / patient care experience.
• Reception/admin background, NHS experience preferred.
• NVQ3 or equivalent experience.
• Organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Process enquiries politely and efficiently at reception or by phone.
• Deal with enquiries from Police and external agencies about missing people with confidentiality.
• Carry out administrative duties accurately and efficiently.
• Provide customer-oriented reception service and clerical support to the clinical team, updating databases.
• Alert clinical staff if a patient looks distraught or unwell and activate alarms.
• Maintain confidentiality and follow legal requirements for patient documentation.

Skills

Customer care

Organisational skills

Prioritise workload

Work under pressure

Education

GCSE Level or equivalent

NVQ3 or equivalent

Job description

Main area Emergency Medicine Admin Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7 service including weekends and Bank Holidays)

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £25,272 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission is:

Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:

To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

We are recruiting for Urgent & Emergency Care Clerical Assistant who shareour vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, whose aim is to provide a polite, friendly and patient-focused service to patients attending our Emergency Department and supporting the Urgent Treatment Centre. You will be required to across across site, Lister Hospital in Stevenage and our Urgent Treatment Centre's at Lister and in Welwyn.

This role forms part of a fixed rota providing cover including weekends and 365 days a year. You will need to be able to workdays, evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays, including Christmas and New Year. You will be compensated in enhancements to your pay due to the hours required for this role.

We are proud to support our staff with their personal and professional development and take pride in the encouragement and growth of our staff.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to process all enquiries politely and efficiently, displaying empathy when answering queries at the reception desk or over the telephone.

You will be required to deal with enquiries from Police and other external agencies concerning missing people by searching for details on hospital database, whilst always maintaining confidentiality.

You will ensure that all administrative duties are carried out in a professional, accurate and efficient manner always.

You will be responsible for providing a customer orientated reception service and clerical support to the clinical team in the Emergency Department. This is to include accurately registering and updating details onto the hospital and national databases and assisting in any enquiries from internal or external agencies.

You are responsible for alerting clinical staff if you notice a patient looking distraught or unwell needing urgent medical attention, and to activate the emergency alarm where necessary.

You must also recognise the legality of patient documentation and always maintain patient confidentiality.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• General Education
• GCSE Level or equivalent

Knowledge

• Basic Numeracy and literacy

Previous Experience

• Customer / patient care
• Relevant clerical or admin background (reception experience). Preferably NHS experience or other health related organisation
• NVQ3 or equivalent experience

Skills

• Organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to work under pressure

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Ability to work without supervision
• Good team working, flexibility
• Ability to work with people at all levels within the organisation / professions

When you apply

Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts. This means even if you have the right to work currently but will require a new sponsorship to work for our Trust your application will not be considered.

Vacancies may close earlier than the advertised closing date where a high volume of applications are received. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out on the opportunity to join the Trust or develop your career with us.

While we recognise that AI can support in drafting an application, you are encouraged to clearly demonstrate your personal skills, experience and behaviours that align with the role, and this is usually best done in your own words. We reserve the right to review all applications for the use of AI tools and where this is inconsistent with our values and standards of behaviour your application may be rejected

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We are committed to fair, transparent and ethical recruitment. We will never ask applicants to pay fees at any stage of the recruitment process. All vacancies are advertised on our Trust Careers webpage and NHS Jobs, with applications managed through TRAC. We will only contact applicants through our official recruitment channels and Trust contact details.

Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [e-mail]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.