Job summary
- Main area
- Chemical Pathology
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (Ends 31/03/2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0538
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT (Clinical Biochemistry Dept)
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/09/2025
Employer heading
Speciality Secretary Admin & Clerical Band 3- Clinical Biochemistry
Band 3
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
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Job overview
We are seeking an individual to join our busy Chemical Pathology team on a fixed term 7 month contract as required during the Mon-Fri period.
If you are interested in working in a busy, hardworking but friendly team, then we would love to hear from you.
Ideally you will be familiar with secretarial and/or admin & clerical processes within the NHS, however full training will be given to develop your skills.
It is essential that you possess an excellent work ethic with proven organisational and communication skills.
As part of the Chemical Pathology Admin & Clerical team, you will work closely with a team of clinical and managerial staff.
The role is based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
This main focus of this fixed term role will be to support a large variety of administrative task designed to support the management team within Clinical Biochemistry, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The role will require a significant amount of VDU time.
The proposed interview date is 1st September
Main duties of the job
As an A&C colleague in our busy department, you will work as part of a hardworking administration team and will be responsible for providing an efficient admin service to our team of Chemical Pathology consultants.
You should possess excellent communication and administrative skills, be flexible and proactive and have a can-do attitude at all times.
You will provide an excellent work ethic and commitment to supporting our clinicians and admin team in their day to day duties, with a positive and professional manner at all times.
Working for our organisation
Our Chemical Pathology service covers both Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General hospitals and provides an analytical and clinical interpretive service to the health community in Gloucestershire. We process over 1,200,000 patient requests (12 million tests) per annum, providing a 24/7, 365 days per annum service to both main hospital sites. The admin team work predominantly on the Gloucester site.
We will provide you with training, a supportive network of colleagues and management teams.
Our team of A&C colleagues are friendly and supportive and welcome you to their team.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one of our innovative hospitals. As well as generous annual leave allowance, access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To answer the main laboratory enquiry line. To provide hospital staff, GP's and patients with sampling conditions and specimen information from laboratory protocols. To give out authorised results, take requests for urgent work and additional tests. To reassign priority of request processing, add additional tests to request already entered onto the laboratory computer system and liaise with laboratory staff as appropriate. To deal with patient enquiries some of whom are upset and agitated.
Typing letters to patients. GPs, medical staff and any other required addressee following clinical attendance or other patient contacts.
Highlighting on the case notes any investigations, outpatient appointments, results that are pending and require action from the team or supervisor.
Using the Laboratory Information System for updating and extracting patient information on a daily basis, including patient data entry at VDU- to include interpretation and entry of clinical details, test selection from over 300 individual tests and prioritisation of request and result entry data. To deal appropriately with inputting problems, incomplete or conflicting data on request forms and incorrect samples.
To check invoices , record information onto the database, photocopying and maintaining a filing system.
Entry of returned result data from other laboratories into the Laboratory Information System, ensuring reports are compliant with consultant requirements.
Generate on Lab Information System, lists of outstanding patient requests referred to other laboratories and chase up results in a timely manner to ensure target turnaround times are achieved.
See full Job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE or equivalent at Grade C or above in literacy and numeracy
Desirable criteria
- RSA level three or demonstrable experience
- NVQ in Administration level 3 or demonstrable experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- IT experience and proficiency in Microsoft Office Packages
Desirable criteria
- Previous secretarial experience
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with a good command and understanding of spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Appropriate experience in a hospital
Desirable criteria
- Proven organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Quick learner with problem solving skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to work flexibly within a team, quickly and accurately
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate well rounded personality, calm disposition and good attitude to work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fleur Gani
- Job title
- Business Admin Manager Clinical Biochemistry
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5234
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