# Administration Receptionist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Mayo Building, Salford Royal
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Receptionist
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To cross cover sites)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T11:30:33.469Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Radcliffe/Northern_Care_Alliance_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Dermatology/Dermatology-v8383926
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8383926?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Dermatology Receptionist/Administration Officer will be responsible for providing clinic administration and reception support to patients attending clinic; this will include receiving and greeting patients into clinic areas whilst recording the patient’s attendance and clinical outcome on the Patient Administration System (PAS).

You will also be responsible for providing an appointment booking service to enable patients to book future appointments when leaving the department, this role may develop into the booking of future appointments into other clinical disciplines (i.e. diagnostic). This may also involve some telephone booking of appointments and the scheduling of forthcoming appointments, from other sources of patient enquires, whilst providing a confidential, efficient patient-friendly and out side agency contact service.

### Main duties of the job

- You will be interactive with the General Public, Nursing, Medical staff and other Trust Administrative and Clerical Staff.
- You will ensure all reception processes are carried out in a timely and accurate manner to ensure an efficient Reception and quality service to all users.
- Integral to the role with be the maintaining of the clinic administration functions on PAS ensuring that they are ‘cashed up’ in a timely and accurate manner at the end of each clinic session. Scanning of patient records to the EPR system.
- Prepare documentation for each clinician and ensuring that these records are accurate and kept up to date.
- Dealing and responding to telephone queries and messages.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

### Applicant requirements

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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Prioritisation of tasks
- Communication skills
- Able to work in high pressure environment
- Reliable

### Knowledge

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of PAS
- Medical terminology

### Experience

**Essential**

- Working within a confidential environment

**Desirable**

- Patient administration background

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- RAS 2 clerical qualification or equivalent experience

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 296.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713055)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 120.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713056)
- [candidate information pack (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3016)
- [sponsorship & visa information (pdf, 106.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2708)

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