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Job summary

Main area
Audiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
374-SR3865
Employer
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Avenue House, Eastbourne
Town
Eastbourne
Salary
£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/06/2026 23:59

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East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Senior Administrator

NHS AfC: Band 3

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work.

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust provides safe, compassionate and high quality hospital and community care to the half a million people living in East Sussex and those who visit our local area. 


We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex with an annual income of £700 million and we are the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. 


Our extensive health services are provided by over 8,000+ dedicated members of staff working from two acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites across East Sussex, and in people’s own homes. 


The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being Caring and Effective. The Conquest Hospital in Hastings and our Community Services were rated ‘Outstanding’ and Eastbourne DGH was rated ‘Good’ Our two acute hospitals have Emergency Departments and provide 24 hour a day care, offering a comprehensive range of surgical, medical, outpatient and maternity services, supported by a full range of diagnostic and therapy services. 

 

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our audiology service as a full-time Senior Administrator.

Our service provides audiology services for all ages across East Sussex and your role will support the smooth running of this service ensuring we are family friendly and patient focused to ensure the needs of our deaf patients are met.

You will provide a range of administrative duties such as managing referrals, booking appointments, waiting lists, audio typing, telephone queries as well as providing support for the band 2 administrators. You will have daily contact with patients, audiology clinical staff and other services supporting their enquiries and problem solving.

You will be an experienced administrator, used to managing service users queries/ customer service and be experienced in dealing with difficult situations. You will have good communication skills, work well under pressure and be flexible in your approach to work, able to prioritise tasks appropriately and support others to do the same. You will have good IT skills including word, excel and email and be able to learn new systems, such as the audiology electronic patient record system, Auditbase.  

The role is currently based at Avenue house, Eastbourne and whilst you are mainly based here, you may be required to work off site on occasion.

Main duties of the job

To work within the Audiology department (Adult / Paediatric / NHSP), providing a comprehensive and professional administrative service including appointments, waiting lists, audio typing and departmental support.
Assisting the Lead Administrator and the Admin supervisor in the smooth running of the service and ensuring a family friendly, professional and patient focused approach within the team for service users. Ensuring effective communication between patients and Audiology staff. 
Supporting band 2 administrators to ensure the quality and performance remains high and their wellbeing is supported. 

 

Working for our organisation

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year. 

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job description for main responsibilities.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person specification

education

Essential criteria
  • maths and English or equivalent GCSE
Desirable criteria
  • Admin NVQ level 3 or equivalent

experience

Essential criteria
  • min 3 years admin/ secretarial
  • reception/ customer service experience
  • IT skills incl word/ excel and email
  • experience dealing with difficult situations
  • ability to work onsite at avenue house
Desirable criteria
  • medical clerical experience
  • auditbase experience

skills/ knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria
  • good communication skills
  • team working
  • excellent keybordd and IT skills
  • work under pressure

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkGold Award 2026 - Wellbeing at Work - East Sussex

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Graham Keyse
Job title
Lead Administrator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07815460754
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