Administration Assistant

Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

37.5 Hours Per Week

Department: Ophthalmology

These posts are to provide a clinical administration/typing service based at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and Friarage Hospital based in Northallerton.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who is:

• Wanting to gain invaluable experience across a wide variety of roles
• An enthusiastic team player
• Able to work flexibly
• An excellent communicator with a high level of interpersonal skill
• An accurate typist with OCR/RSA qualification or equivalent level typing qualification or experience
• Able to type at an entry level of 50 words per minute, working towards 70 words per minute
• Experienced in audio-typing (desirable)
• Knowledgeable of Office, Outlook, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, E-mail and Internet
• Able to demonstrate efficient and accurate word processing skills
• Committed to personal development with evidence of this
• Able to demonstrate diplomacy, tact and sensitivity
• Aware of the importance of confidentiality

If you believe you are the person we are looking for we would be glad to hear from you.

This vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers Novice leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.