Job id: 106125. Salary: £30,148 - £33,081 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 30 January 2025. Closing date: 13 February 2025.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: PET Imaging Centre Facility.
Contact details: Latifat Agoro. latifat.agoro@kcl.ac.uk
Location: St Thomas’ Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About us
We are looking for an enthusiastic administrative assistant and receptionisist to join our PET imaging team at King’s College London (KCL) & Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) PET Centre.
The PET Centre is part of both King’s College London’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
We run a clinical PET service in parallel with an extensive programme of clinical research. Facilities currently include 2 cyclotrons, radiochemistry labs, 3 PET-CT scanners and a PET-MR scanner.
About the role
The PET Receptionist and Administrative assistant is a key member of the PET administrative team responsible for the provision of clerical administrative support in all aspects of the PET Centre’s activities. This will cover both St Thomas’ Hospital and Guy’s Cancer Centre and will include clinical, research and radiochemistry service provision and will be working under the direction of the PET Operations Officer.
The post holder will assist with maintaining departmental records in an organised and accessible manner in addition to preparing patients records for filing and scanning. They will also contribute to general clerical activities including processing patient appointment letters, collating scanning lists in addition to calling and communicating PET protocol to patients before the scan appointment.
This is a full-time position involving a high level of patient contact both face to face and by telephone and requires well developed, verbal, organisational, computing skills and accuracy. The post holder must be able to remain calm and project a welcoming and friendly manner recognising that patients may be nervous and under stress when they are contacted or attend for scan appointments.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 1 year (full time attendance on site is required)
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Minimum level 1 qualifications, e.g. GCSE, or vocational qualifications and/or skills and experience acquired during relevant work experience
• Excellent literacy & numeracy skills
• General administrative experience including maintenance of accurate filing systems
• Excellent communication and face to face interpersonal skills with people at all levels including good spoken English and excellent telephone manner
• Good knowledge of MS Office including Word Processing, Excel, PowerPoint and use of email/internet
• Good organisational skills with strong accuracy and reliability and a flexible approach to duties
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to respond to non-standard situations and work calmly under pressure

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge/experience of managing patient administration and management databases
• Experience of working in a hospital/medical environment
• Willing to work flexible hours

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Further information
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.
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