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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Haematology
Grade
4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Job ref
393-NMUH-2070
Employer
393 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Middlesex university Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£31,081 - £33,665 Per annum inclusive of HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

393 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Red Cell Senior Administrator

4

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

The Haematology Day unit provides an inpatient service for patients with red cell Hemoglobin Disorders. Patients are seen for screening and genetic counselling. The Haematology Day Unit provides Top up blood transfusions for Patients with red cell conditions such as sickle cell, thalassemia and polycythemia and Hemochromatosis patients. We also provide Automated red blood cell exchanges, manual exchanges, blood testing and venesection. We also provide pain management services. We are looking for a enthusiastic, hard working team player to join our sickle cell team at North Middlesex hospital, If you believe you have the right skills that match the Job description please get in touch and apply.  

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Waiting list management
  • Booking and discharging patients
  • Administration
  • Data quality
  • Clinical Governance
  • Professional and Personal Development

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached for full detail of the main responsibilities.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of medical terminology, English and Maths at GCSE level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Diploma level qualification or equivalent experience, Courses / further study attended to demonstrate evidence of personal development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of interaction with all levels of staff  Previous administrative and organisational experience  Experience of dealing with non-routine and complex problems
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing and prioritising own workload and working to deadlines

Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Team work and ability to develop strong collaborative working relationships within different teams and relevant administrative, clinical and management staff  Ability to work without direct supervision  Reliability – good time keeping
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to work flexibly to accommodate peaks and troughs of activity

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills  Excellent organisational skills with meticulous attention to detail  Excellent customer care practice, being polite, sympathetic, patient and diplomatic  Understanding of patient confidentiality  Excellent data management and database management
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Medway  Ability to confidently interact and share knowledge with staff at all levels  Proof of continuous learning and development  Ability to learn and assimilate information quickly  Ability to use databases

Personal qualities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to maintain excellent communication channels and good customerservices  Maintain a high level of professionalism  Ability to work under pressure and use own initiative to prioritise tasks  Good interpersonal skills having a friendly and approachable manner  Proactive, forward thinking, quick problem-solving attitude

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Tina Dehno
Job title
Project Manager for Sickle cell unit
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07917480433
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