Administrative Assistant Folkestone, England
Job description
We are looking for a highly motivated and flexible Administrative Assistant to support our local Podiatry team within Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust.
You will join one of the largest and forward-thinking Podiatry teams in the country. You will be providing support to the local podiatry team to ensure service provisions within the team are run effectively and efficiently, by undertaking clinical administrative tasks, such as liaising with patients to arrange home visits, photocopying, maintaining stock levels of clinical supplies and completion of standard forms, surveys, audits and data entry.
You must be proficient with all Microsoft packages, including Outlook, Word, Excel and have the ability to use data bases and handle telephone queries.
The successful candidate would need to demonstrate good communication skills, be organised and able to work on their own initiative.
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive health and well being support package to all staff as well as excellent development opportunities.
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What our staff say about us --https://www.takeadifferentview.co.uk/community-podiatry-in-kent/
The role would include the below duties (this is not an exhaustive list):
- Ordering of clinical supplies
- Putting away clinical supplies/ tidying clinic cupboards and stock rotation
- Maintaining patient leaflets and handouts for clinics
- Ordering and rotating of catalogues
- Uploading temperature and cleaning logs to relevant hard drive and completing compliance excel spreadsheet
- Uploading medications delivery slips to relevant hard drive
- Printing off next appointment slips and other specific paperwork
- Managing of instruments packs, replacing missing/ blunt items, completing customer feedback form and emailing to relevant people
- Contacting patients/carers to arrange home visits
We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.
We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. From September 2022, the minimum salary we’ll pay is £10.90 per hour (excluding apprentices). The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer
Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
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All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 5th June 2023
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity
Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
