Senior Receptionist

Job summary

As a senior receptionist/administration support you will provide comprehensive, professional, and effective receptionist/administrative support to our Counselling and Support Services. You will be there to offer a welcoming, efficient service and be the first point of contact to patients, visitors and clients. You will be required to apply a high degree of confidentiality to all your work, whilst ensuring clear communication with all services, teams and colleagues. You will communicate with patients and their relatives by face-to-face contact, via telephone and email and keep accurate records of your interactions whilst remaining professional but empathic. You will oversea deliveries and be responsible for ensuring all parcel transactions are recorded correctly.

Main duties of the job

You will have previous reception experience, working in a health or social care setting and dealing with the public. You will need to have a qualification in customer service or equivalent. Experience of Microsoft office packages is necessary. You will be able to prioritise workloads and have excellent organisational skills. Working as part of a team is key in this role, but you should also be able to be an independent thinker and be able use your own initiative. You will need to possess balanced judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with staff, patients, colleagues and visitors. About our recruitment process: Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date when applicant volume is high. Compton Care is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure that all our staff are selected and vetted fairly so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.

About us

Compton Care is committed to providing accessible, innovative and influential care to patients with complex and incurable conditions. We also support the carers and families of patient within our local communities and work closely with health and social care colleagues from other organisations. Our workforce is critically important to this mission.