Secretarial Assistant for ENT

Job summary

To provide efficient and high quality administrative support to consultants and their teams.

To work in close co-operation with staff and other health professionals to ensure a first class service.

To be an active and supportive member of the department's administrative and clerical team.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for two enthusiastic, reliable and hardworking individuals to join our ENT Administration team - one on a fixed term contract for one year and the other as permanent.

The ideal candidates will have excellent organisational skills, a patient-focused approach, be a good team player capable of working with different staff groups and be able to work on their own initiative.The person best suited to this position is someone with the ability to work in a team, has excellent interpersonal skills and organizational skills and who is also flexible, proactive and who meets challenges and who is flexible and meets challenges with enthusiasm.

A good standard of verbal and written English, numeracy and attention to detail is also expected.

You will be working as part of a well established ENT team providing administrative support to the running of the service.

ENT is a very busy and large service both clinical and non-clinical.

The ENT department provides an outpatient, inpatient and day case service for patients with ENT for a variety of both general and specialist ENT conditions.

The department provides specialist care in Head & Neck Cancer, Paediatrics, Otology, Voice/Botox, Rhinology and Emergency clinics and is the regional tertiary centre for ENT.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.