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Dental Administrator
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 24 months (2 years)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3832
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Islington, Camden, Brent
Town
London
Salary
£31,554 - £33,270 Per annum Including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/04/2026 23:59

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Dental Administrator

NHS AfC: Band 3

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Job overview

To deliver administrative support services required by the service, providing an efficient and friendly front of house, dealing with all enquires in a professional and sympathetic manner. The post holder will support the efficient running of clinics through the booking appointments and greeting patients courteously, responding to patient enquiries and concerns.
As well as requiring excellent administration and organisational skills, the post holder must be confident to communicate with people from a variety of backgrounds and have strong customer care skills. Although the post is clinic-based it may require working at office sites to provide cover.
The post-holder must maintain strict patient, staff and departmental confidentiality at all times.

Main duties of the job

To act as the first point of contact to all patients, staff and other callers to the dental service and to address all enquiries in an efficient, courteous and friendly manner.
 To ensure all queries and correspondence are promptly and efficiently dealt with.
 To clerk in patients, issue NHS acceptance forms and medical histories, and update records on SOE accordingly, ensuring ethnicity is recorded for each patient.
To keep patients informed, ensuring any patients waiting are given updates on length of wait.
Assist with appointment reminders for the service.
To ensure the smooth running of the clinic, and the provision of effective, high quality & efficient care in a timely manner.

Responsibility for managing the patient appointment systems of clinics, including follow up reminders and managing failed attendances to reduce their occurrence and impact on clinical time.
Responsibility for, and management of, all written and computerised patient records in the clinic.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

 

 

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good general education
  • Evidence of IT training or relevant experience / training

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
  • Organised and methodical
  • Competent in MS Office applications
  • Ability to deal with patients’ needs in a caring and sensitive manner.
  • To be able to work under pressure
  • To be efficient and accurate in record keeping
  • Excellent/professional telephone /reception manner.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous Experience in inputting data
  • Competent in Microsoft office

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Caitlyn Ford
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02033168353
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