Administrative Assistant Ponteland, England
Job description
Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust currently has a part time, permanent vacancy for an enthusiastic and motivated person to join the Primary Mental Health admin team, working alongside the secretary and the Primary Mental Health Workers who cover the whole of Northumberland. They will also have excellent communication and time management skills, as well as the ability to manage the office independently, whilst demonstrating a sound understanding of confidentiality in accordance with the Data Protection Act, Access to Health Records Act and any other relevant legislation.
The post will be based at Ponteland but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the trust.
The candidate will have excellent IT skills and will be required to assist in the general efficient running of the office. This will include typing, filing, retrieval and storage of patient records, Systmone, handling post and dealing with telephone enquiries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
To be able to work within a small admin team for a very busy office for the Primary Mental Health Team based in Ponteland Primary Care Centre.
