Specialty Coordinator in Ophthalmology - Band 4

Job summary

The Ophthalmology team at Boston Pilgrim Hospital is extremely busy seeing patients both on an outpatient and inpatient basis.

The Specialty Co-Ordinator is vital to the smooth running of the Department not only providing an efficient administrative service to the Consultants and their teams but line managing the medical secretaries and secretarial assistants in the team.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Ophthalmology Team at Boston. If you consider yourself to be motivated, hard-working and a committed individual this is the role for you.

The role is full time and will be based at Boston covering 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 16.30pm but part time hours over 30 are also welcome to apply. The working days are Monday-Friday but hours from 8am - 6pm would be considered as well as offering an opportunity to work from home as well as from the base site office.

No previous applicants need to apply.

Main duties of the job

You need a sound administration background and be both enthusiastic and committed to providing an excellent service to the Department.

Responsible for day to day line management of medical secretaries, secretarial assistants and elective access clerks including allocation and checking of work and training and development of staff.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.