Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Endoscopy Record Assistant

The closing date is 06 April 2026

Job summary

Join Our Growing Endoscopy Team!

The Endoscopy Department is expanding with the addition of a state-of-the-art mobile unit, making this an exciting time to become part of our journey. We're increasing our workforce in the administrative areas and are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and dedicated Records Assistant to join our dynamic team.

If you are:

  • Organised and detail-oriented
  • Hard-working and adaptable
  • Committed to delivering exceptional patient care
  • Passionate about improving the patient experience

...then we want to hear from you!

As a Records Assistant, you'll play a vital role in ensuring smooth operations within a fast-paced environment, supporting our clinical teams and helping us provide the highest standards of care. This is your chance to make a real difference and be part of a team that values collaboration, innovation, and patient-centred service.

Main duties of the job

The primary role is to be responsible for the prepping of patient appointments to ensure all documentation is available for patient appointments. You will be filing correspondence in patient case notes, tracking case notes in and out and utilising the Careflow system and the transportation of case notes to agreed areas around the Trust.

You must have the ability to adapt to an ever changing environment and work under pressure a well as your using your initiative

The Endoscopy administration team operates from 8-8pm Monday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday 8am to 6pm so a flexible working approach is required.

Please note the Endoscopy Administration team is a 7 day working department including weekends and evenings and additionally providing support at Newark hospital.

About us

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Details

Date posted

19 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-MED-7799544

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Good verbal communication skills.
  • Use of office equipment e.g. computer, fax machine, photocopier/scanner.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of administration systems

Qualifications/Academic/Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level C English (or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Any office based training.

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work within an office environment.

Desirable

  • General Office experience - tracking / filing.
  • Quality customer service

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Good team member
Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Good verbal communication skills.
  • Use of office equipment e.g. computer, fax machine, photocopier/scanner.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of administration systems

Qualifications/Academic/Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • Educated to GCSE level C English (or equivalent)

Desirable

  • Any office based training.

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work within an office environment.

Desirable

  • General Office experience - tracking / filing.
  • Quality customer service

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Good team member

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Endoscopy Team Leader

Carla Tagg

carla.tagg@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

19 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-MED-7799544

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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