Cardiac Administrator

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

Oxleas Community Cardiac Service are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and organised person to provide comprehensive administrative support to our team of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Heart Failure Specialist Nurses.

The Specialist Team provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary cardiac service to the residents of Greenwich and Bexley. They work closely with hospital colleagues.

This is a busy and varied role, and the successful applicant must be able to remain calm under pressure. The successful candidate must be a team player and have a flexible approach to work, covering for other members of the administration team where possible in their absence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder must have previous administration experience and the ability to work with people of all levels, together with good organisational and communication skills, both written and verbally. Experience of working with Microsoft Office packages is essential; and the Rio Clinical Information System is desirable. Applicants will need to possess the ability to organise and prioritise work, along with an understanding of and commitment to confidentiality when dealing with patients.

The post includes dealing with patient queries on the telephone; therefore, ideally applicants should have some experience of direct patient contact, as well as organising clinics and booking appointments

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Education to NVQ 3/GCSE standard or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Good MS Office skills including Word and Excel

Experience of interfacing with service users, demonstrating good listening skills.

Office experience in a health care setting

Secretarial or administrative experience

Dealing with enquiries from patients

Desirable

• Experience of using Rio Clinical Information System
• Good organisation skills (Including ability to assist clinical staff with organising their case load

Skills

Essential

• Flexibility to cope with the demands of the service to assist with providing quality client care
• Ability to use own initiative, work unsupervised, and prioritise workload
• Ability to prioritise information from service users and convey accurately to clinical staff
• Ability to work as part of a team and able to assist others
• Undertaking general office duties

Desirable

• Supporting the team with ordering equipment via NHS supply chain, booking transport and requesting interpreter service for patients.

Undertaking of minutes in meetings

Arrange meetings and training sessions

About the employer

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: