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Job summary

Main area
Endoscopy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various hours also available)
Job ref
214-MED-7190358
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-In-Ashfield
Salary
£24,625 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/06/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clerical Officer - Endoscopy Unit

NHS AfC: Band 3

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, flexible, and dedicated Clerical Officer to join our Endoscopy admin team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a dynamic team in a first-class, spacious, and state-of-the-art hospital environment.

As a Clerical Officer in our Endoscopy department, you will play a key role in managing the booking of patient endoscopy procedures. Your responsibilities will include daily management of key targets such as booking appointments, managing patient pathways, liaising with patients and coordinating with both Endoscopy and supporting departments. You will also have the chance to interact directly with patients, covering reception duties, requesting case notes, handling phone queries and sending out communications.

The Endoscopy administration team operates from 8 AM to 8 PM Monday to Thursday, and 8 AM to 6 PM on weekends, requiring a flexible working approach. You will primarily be based at KMH, with cross-cover required at Newark Hospital and the Endoscopy Mobile Unit located at Kings Mill.

If you are committed to providing high-quality patient care, possess excellent organisational skills, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached document for the full detailed job description, main responsibilities  and person specification.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached document for the full detailed job description, main responsibilities  and person specification.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

 

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Computer literate, with experience of using a keyboard with a high level of accuracy.
  • Thorough knowledge of healthcare administrative systems and processes
  • Knowledge of databases, spreadsheets i.e. PAS, Excel or similar applications
  • Confidentiality and Data Protection
  • Health and Safety
  • Equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
  • Sound office clerical background providing knowledge of relevant procedures.
  • Experience of using a full range of IT/Patient data systems – As applicable to speciality
  • Knowledge of NHS or service provider in general

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good general education with GCSE English at grade C or above. (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
  • Formal keyboard/typing qualification eg RSA II or ECDL
  • NVQ in Customer Care
  • Institute of Health Records & Information Management Diploma (IHRIM)

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • On the job training.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Customer care
Desirable criteria
  • Some experience providing required NHS knowledge and qualification equivalences if necessary.

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to work flexible hours as necessary

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Carla Tagg
Job title
Acting Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
Additional information

01623 622515  ext 6576

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