Clinical Secretarial Admin Assistant

at  East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Are you looking to kickstart your career in the NHS? We are looking an admin assistant for our General Surgery department to support the clinical secretarial team. As a Secretarial Administrative Assistant, you will play a vital part within a large team who are dedicated to providing support for clinicians & patients.
If you have a good level of general education including GCSE English & Maths, a willingness to learn and support your team & a desire to develop your potential, then we would like to hear from you. You should be IT literate with good keyboard skills & have excellent written communication & spelling skills. You do NOT need to have secretarial experience
There is no better to time to join the NHS to secure your future career.
Training & development including paid apprenticeships leading to valuable qualifications
Career progression opportunities
27 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 33 days with continued service
Contributory pension scheme
Flexible working pattern
The Trust is an equal opportunities employer and believes in treating everyone with dignity & respect. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community. We are committed to the health & wellbeing of our staff & we have a number of initiatives which promote our supportive & inclusive approach to staff health & wellbeing, career development & benefits.
The main duty of the job is proof reading and editing clinical correspondence which has been transcribed by speech recognition software. Additional duties may include post runs, scanning, answering phone calls and general admin duties. This role will be on a “float” basis to support different departments according to need
It is essential that you are able to demonstrate good interpersonal, verbal and written skills and have a “can do” attitude. You will have a good level of IT literacy as you will be using multiple software packages.
We can provide you with in-house training, career development opportunities, flexible working solutions, generous annual leave entitlement & access to NHS Staff Benefits.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
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