Job summary
Employer heading
Bowel Cancer Screening Admin Support Officer
Band 3
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated person to provide efficient administration and clerical support to the Bowel Cancer Screening Service within Cornwall.
It is important that you are enthusiastic, motivated and able to work with competing demands on your time. Previous NHS administrative experience is essential, and ideally you will have knowledge of waiting list management and access targets.
This is a part-time post working 35 hours per week over 5 days.
Main duties of the job
The Administrative Support Officer is an integral role within the Cornwall Bowel Cancer Screening team. The team are responsible for arranging and undertaking diagnostic tests for patients that have had a positive bowel cancer screening test across Cornwall.
The post holder is required to provide efficient and responsive administrative and clerical support in accordance with national, Trust and departmental guidelines, policies and procedures; directing enquiries and managing the patient pathway from referral to results using specialist software and hospital systems.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with
visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.
We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.
The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.
Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Work health assessments
- Criminal record check standards
- Right to work checks
For further information please visit:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good level of general education
Desirable criteria
- NVQ3 or ECDL or Equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Communication Skills
- Substantive admin NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Customer Care Skills
- Waiting list management experience
- Radar, HICCS, Maxims, PAS, SCR experience
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Dyer
- Job title
- BCS Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01872 252712
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