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Ward Managers Assistant - Winchester Theatres
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
251-SURG8941-NIGH
Employer
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Hampshire County Hospital
Town
Winchester
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Ward Managers Assistant

Band 3

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

Provide a comprehensive, professional, and confidential administrative service to the Clinical Matron and fellow Theatre Sisters and staff which optimises their time and enables them to fulfil the clinical element of their roles.

The post holder will develop and implement administrative systems which will support the efficient running of Winchester Theatres.

What we look for:

  • The successful candidate will need to be a highly organised
  • Motivated and dynamic personality ready to use initiative and innovation
  • Good IT skills
  • Excellent interpersonal communication
  • To work closely alongside senior staff members, with a comprehensive, professional, and confidential manner

Main duties of the job

The Surgical Services Division is seeking an efficient and highly motivated Ward Managers Assistant, to be based in the  Nightingale Theatres reception. The post-holder will provide a range of support duties to the Clinical Matron as well as the wider Theatre Team (incorporating Theatres, Recovery and Anaesthetics)

You will need to  be highly organised as well as being flexible and possessing the ability to work as an integral team member.

You must have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and be able to remain calm in a busy theatre environment.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of patient administration and other related systems, acquired through training experience
Desirable criteria
  • Customer Care Training or similar

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience in an administrative role or experience of working in an administrative capacity
  • Able to demonstrate current knowledge and identify own learning needs
  • Experience of organising own work
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in an NHS environment or public sector
  • Knowledge of medical terminology
  • Advanced computer skills

Skills & Ability

Essential criteria
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and telephone manner
  • Able to use IT facilities for information retrieval
  • Problem solving skills and ability to use own initiative to identify improvements and to use negotiating skills to implement changes
  • Excellent Interpersonal skills allowing effective communication between all internal and external customers
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and stay calm under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Flexibility and adaptability to changing situations
  • Friendly and approachable manner
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of producing presentations using MS PowerPoint

Other Specific Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to deal with frequent interruptions that may require being called away
  • Professional manner and organised approach
  • Enthusiastic, determined and assertive
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Be able to take instruction/ direction
  • Able to adjust to pressures of the job in a changing environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldArmed Forces Covenant

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
Melanie Crampton
Job title
Theatres Admin lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01962 863535
Additional information

contact phone number: 01962 863535  extension 25423

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