Administration Advisor - Contact Centre

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

The closing date is 09 May 2025

Job summary

Monday - Friday / 08:30 - 17:00 / 37.5 hrs

Lister Site

We are recruiting for an Administration Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

If you're looking for a fast-paced, varied role and enjoy a customer-care type position, this will be an exciting job for you.

Our clerks are trained to support a patient's pathway through Outpatients, from referral to treatment, so in this role you can really make a difference.

You could work in our busy outpatient clinics, on the outpatient reception desk, and in our Outpatient Contact Centre, using various appointment computer systems to book, cancel and answer patient appointment enquiries on the telephone.

If you've got excellent communication and people-skills and enjoy working as part of a team, then this role will give you great job satisfaction. It is also a great stepping-stone to career progression within the NHS, with excellent promotion opportunities within the Trust.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To liaise with patients and Trust colleagues, face-to-face, by telephone and by e-mail, to ensure patient's appointments are booked, cancelled and monitored efficiently.

You will regularly work at the reception at outpatient clinics and also answer the Trust's Appointment Line dealing with patients' appointment queries.

General office administration & duties, including opening & distributing post, emails, deal with routine correspondence & highlight correspondence of an urgent nature, photocopying, filing.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

o 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 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.

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7034630

Job locations

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Evidenced of experience in office duties
  • Experience in dealing with the public/reception type role
  • Experience in Email, Microsoft Word, & Excel package

Desirable

  • Experience in Lorenzo
  • Previous employment in a clerical healthcare setting

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of how current skills apply to clerical role

Desirable

  • Knowledge of the hospital, support departments and patient pathway
  • Knowledge of Trusts Access Policy

Qualifications

Essential

  • Computer literate

Skills

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate good communication skills - verbal and written
  • To be able to prioritise
  • Evidence of polite, approachable and compassionate manner
  • Evidence of working as an active and supportive team palyer

Desirable

  • To work in an organised, methodical manner
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Evidenced of experience in office duties
  • Experience in dealing with the public/reception type role
  • Experience in Email, Microsoft Word, & Excel package

Desirable

  • Experience in Lorenzo
  • Previous employment in a clerical healthcare setting

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of how current skills apply to clerical role

Desirable

  • Knowledge of the hospital, support departments and patient pathway
  • Knowledge of Trusts Access Policy

Qualifications

Essential

  • Computer literate

Skills

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate good communication skills - verbal and written
  • To be able to prioritise
  • Evidence of polite, approachable and compassionate manner
  • Evidence of working as an active and supportive team palyer

Desirable

  • To work in an organised, methodical manner

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.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Contact centre Coordinator

Lesley Haskins

lesley.haskins@nhs.net

0143828445

Date posted

29 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

361-7034630

Job locations

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB


Supporting documents

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