Ophthalmology Administration Assistant

Job summary

• As an integral member of the Ophthalmology Team, to provide admin support to the team within the defined locations, working closely with the Consultant Orthoptist and Matron.
• To provide a wide range of duties ensuring an efficient service to the department at all times.

Main duties of the job

• To adhere to hospital policy in relation to patient confidentiality at all times
• Answer telephone calls in a polite and courteous manner, transfer calls and relay all messages to members of staff

• Sort all incoming post and deliveries
• Ordering of supplies for the Outpatient Departments, ensuring best possible pricing, researching online and using Eros.
• Collating and distributing the appropriate departmental data for all on and off site Outpatients Departments
• Support Ophthalmology meetings (as required)
• Work with the work force co-ordinator to update rooming schedules, daily clinic sheets and forecasting

• Reformatting and creating documentation as required including producing graphs, spreadsheets, leaflets, PDF Documents etc
• Inputting information such as additional shifts, absence, shift changes into Health Roster
• Downloading data for review for departments e.g. patient experience /friends and family
• General office duties filing and photocopying
• A variety of administration duties to support the smooth running of the Outpatient Departments

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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