Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

• The post holder will be the senior point of contact for the administrative function work in Cellular Pathology office. 
• Undertaking a senior role in ensuring the general clerical duties are completed in a timely manner. 
• The post holder will be required to liaise with all grades of staff within the department and to communicate with external users of the service.
• They will need to work in line with the Trust and Departmental policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

·         Ensure tasks for the department is completed in a timely manner.

·        To train new and junior staff under the direction of the Service Manager

·         To participate in the Business Continuity Plan for the department.

·         Help facilitate the introduction of new technology and new working practices to ensure the smooth running of the department when appropriate.

·         Escalate issues as needed to the service manager.

·        Line Management responsibility for junior administrative team including the authorisation of annual leave with support from the service manager.

Working for our organisation

Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants
Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)
Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation

Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution

Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'