Administrator / Receptionist

Job overview

• Are you confident, highly motivated, flexible and adaptable, and can endure working in a very hectic environment?
• Do you want to be part of a dynamic team, providing a high quality, patient focused reception service?
• Are you able to be flexible with your working days at short notice?

Do you have the following qualifications and skills? • Have 2+ GCSE’s A-C (or equivalent) & at least 1 I.T qualification within the last 10            yrs. (If not, you can still apply for the post but will be expected to undertake NVQ         qualifications)

• Proven experience in a busy patient/public focused environment
• Excellent skills in using Microsoft Office including Word and Excel
• Good organisational and time management skills is imperative as we can be     extremely busy.
• The ability to work on your own initiative.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for  friendly and organised Receptionist to join our team at Deal Hospital.

You will be the first point of call for patients visiting our urgent treatment centre, booking patients into all the computer systems supporting senior team with admin tasks and informing staff of any concerns about patients waiting.

Please note there will be times you will have to work at Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone. Our services are open from 08:00 to 20:00 seven days a week every day of the year, including Christmas/New Year. All staff are expected to do a shift on Christmas Day or Boxing Day or New Years eve/day or both. Annual Leave booking over the Christmas Period is limited to a 2 days each over the festive time, except in exceptional circumstances.

For an informal chat please call Elaine Anderson, Operational Lead SKC UTC’s / Vicky Bates, Clinical Team Leader on 01303 854494

Additional Working Pattern: 4 x 6 hours

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.