Paediatric Epilepsy Coordinator

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Paediatric Epilepsy Coordinator who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for an administrator to provide support to the paediatric epilepsy nurses and consultants and to families who use the service.

You will provide efficient administrative and secretarial support in all aspects of the department's work as directed by the Service Co-ordinator.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

To support the organisational development of the paediatric epilepsy service, and support the team in delivering an excellent service to children and young people with epilepsy and their families.

As the Coordinator you will be taking phone calls, monitoring the email account, booking appointments, liaising with the nurses and consultants and keeping the databases up to date.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.