Job summary
- Main area
- Accident and Emergency
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7 Reception cover)
- Job ref
- 214-UEC-7295376
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Receptionist - Newark UTC
NHS AfC: Band 2
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Receptionist to join our Urgent Care Team.
We are looking for individuals with great interpersonal skills who can communicate effectively and demonstrate excellent customer care skills. We are a supportive and engaged team who have a real focus on our workforce and their wellbeing so if you are looking for a challenge and thrive to work in a fast paced and dynamic team then please continue reading.
Newark UTC treats approximately 30,000 new patients a year both adult and children. It is a busy, fast paced and challenging environment with a strong team dynamics.
With increased opening times we are looking to add to our current reception team.
Apply now to join our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Computer literate, with substantial experience of using a keyboard
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of PAS systems and NHS in general
- RSAII or ECDL
Qualifications - Academic/Craft/Professional
Essential criteria
- Good general education with GCSE English at Grade C or above
Desirable criteria
- IHRIM or AMSPAR
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clerical experience
Desirable criteria
- Customer care experience
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Regular attendance and willingness to work flexible hours as necessary
Further Training
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and use of A&E computer system
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
- Michael Thomson
- Job title
- Charge Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01636685810
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