Wheelchair Services Administration ClerkNHS

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an experienced administrator to join our Wheelchair Service Administration team. This is a varied and interesting role and you will be working in our bespoke Wheelchair Centre.

As we support a large geographical area, we are a very busy team, but with this comes a lot of job satisfaction.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive, administrative, IT and clerical support for all staff within the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Wheelchair Service.
• To work flexibly within a team, providing support to colleagues and the multidisciplinary team and provide cover for other administrative and clerical staff when required, on a shared basis.
• To present a user-friendly and accessible service for the public.
• To deal with reception & telephone enquiries effectively and efficiently.

Job description

• Dealing with incoming telephone calls
• Managing and processing email queries
• Recording referrals, re-referrals and prescriptions on our electronic systems
• Arranging delivery and handover of wheelchairs
• Recording issued equipment on our electronic systems
• Scanning documents
• Photocopying
• Arranging appointments and reception duties
• Supporting data collection
• Supporting the wider service team and our patients

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.