Departmental Clerk - Ophthalmology

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available within our Ophthalmology Admin department. We are advertising a position for a Clerical Assistant to work within and alongside both our General Ophthalmology team and Retinal service.

This is an opportunity to start out your career within Administration in the NHS - We are offering a supportive and progressive role, with high job satisfaction. The successful candidate will be working in a role which offers the individual a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, dealing with a large multidisciplinary team on a daily basis. The individual will be engaging with different departments and colleagues throughout the hospital, both Clerical and Clinical.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a team worker dedicated to helping to provide toward the best service for our patients. The successful candidate will require excellent organisational skills, demonstrate the ability to work independently, using their own initiative and be willing to be adaptable and flexible to meet the needs of the Service.

If you are highly organised, confident and think you would be suitable for this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The post is for 37.5 hours per week working within core office hours Monday to Friday.

Previous experience of working within a Healthcare environment is desirable but not essential.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

28 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£20,669 to £21,318 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-SUR-4968533-A

Job locations

Hereford County hospital

Stonebow Road

HEREFORD

HR1 2ER

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Previous administration and clerical experience or equivalent
Good interpersonal skills at all levels
Experience of working in a team environment

Desirable

Previous experience of dealing with the public

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to a range of people
Ability to deal with several projects at the same time
Fluency and numerical ability

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Good general education

Desirable

Word processing/typing qualification or equivalent experience

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Previous administration and clerical experience or equivalent
Good interpersonal skills at all levels
Experience of working in a team environment

Desirable

Previous experience of dealing with the public

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to a range of people
Ability to deal with several projects at the same time
Fluency and numerical ability

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Good general education

Desirable

Word processing/typing qualification or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.