Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available within our Endoscopy Booking Office for an Administrative Assistant working 27 hours per week. The position is based Monday to Friday within our office opening hours of 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Applicants must be available to work on Fridays and, ideally, Mondays, with the remaining working days to be agreed upon.

Certain days may be required initially to support induction and training requirements.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible, and reliable individual who is motivated, conscientious, and possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively as part of a team while contributing to the delivery of a high-quality administrative service.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be motivated, hardworking and have excellent administration and communication skills. The successful candidate needs to be a strong team member, conscientious and have a flexible approach. The main duties of this role is to provide an efficient and responsive admin support to the Endoscopy bookings team. Monitoring generic email accounts, adding waiting list entries to the PAS system and ensuring RTT clocks are started, being a point of contact for patients and colleagues, answering incoming calls and helping to monitor answer phone service. The successful candidate needs to be able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail, have the ability to juggle priorities, to be a strong team member and excellent communication skills are essential.

About us

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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