# Clerical Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Cotman Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UB, United Kingdom
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 15.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21T12:16:45.271Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Norwich_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Histopathology/Histopathology-v8246060
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8246060?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is an office-based post within the Histopathology Department (located at the Cotman Centre), which forms part of the Cellular Pathology directorate. The department has a workload of around 83,000 patient requests per year. This presents an opportunity to be part of an excellent team working in a busy, modern, progressive hospital laboratory service.

Histopathology receives and processes patient samples to provide diagnostic reports to hospital clinicians and General Practitioners. This is a good opportunity to learn administrative work practices and work with a committed team of office, laboratory and consultant staff.

The service is currently moving towards a full digital pathology reporting.

### Main duties of the job

The role will provide an important supporting role to the medical secretaries and consultant pathologists. Your main duties will include; preparing reports and microscope slides for over 25 multidisciplinary team meetings, filing tasks, handling queries from service users, Histopathologists and lab staff, processing post and sending away referral and research work, some typing work and PC work.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Organising reports and retrieving slides for Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings for a range of specialisms within the trust.
- Liaising with members of staff from other departments and hospitals (via telephone, nhs.net and NNUH outlook).
- Entering patient data on the Pathology computer system.
- Assisting with the collection of data for reports.
- Sorting post, filing and scanning paper reports plus retrieving and filing reports and slides.
- Assisting with typing duties for macroscopic digital dictation (in-house training will be given).
- Assisting with laboratory administration duties, if required.

Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Possess good communication and presentation skills.
- Able to effectively work within a complex multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to show flexibility by performing multiple tasks.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Good general computer/IT skills.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Good standard of education, good general standard of literacy and numeracy.

### Attitude, aptitude

**Essential**

- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

## Documents

- [useful links (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2809)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 674.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=901)
- [job description (pdf, 152.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10557678)
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