Job summary
ED Receptionist
37.5 hours per week (11.5 hour shifts days and nights)
Permanent
Salary: £24,169 per annum
Closing Date: 7th July 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due tohigh numbers of applications,so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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To provide an efficient reception support service to the Emergency Department, undertaking associate clerical duties and maintaining a caring and compassionate environment.
Main duties of the job
To provide an efficient reception support service to the Emergency Department, undertaking associate clerical duties and maintaining a caring and compassionate environment.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be able to work on your own under pressure and take responsibility regarding patient care in the Emergency Department.
- To book patients into the Emergency Department and printing of relevant paperwork.
- To photocopy Emergency Department documentation.
- Forwarding copied documentation to GP practices.
- To make clinic appointments.
- To ensure paperwork for clinics is collated.
- To work with Emergency Department computer systems, Lorenzo and clinical portal in accordance with Data Protection Act.
- To show compassion towards bereaved relatives and direct them to appropriate private area, informing nursing staff of their arrival.
- Deal with enquires, both by telephone and in person, taking appropriate action and ensuring that confidentiality or personal health data is maintained.
- Flexibility to cover annual leave and sickness.
- To participate in appropriate meetings.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be able to work on your own under pressure and take responsibility regarding patient care in the Emergency Department.
- To book patients into the Emergency Department and printing of relevant paperwork.
- To photocopy Emergency Department documentation.
- Forwarding copied documentation to GP practices.
- To make clinic appointments.
- To ensure paperwork for clinics is collated.
- To work with Emergency Department computer systems, Lorenzo and clinical portal in accordance with Data Protection Act.
- To show compassion towards bereaved relatives and direct them to appropriate private area, informing nursing staff of their arrival.
- Deal with enquires, both by telephone and in person, taking appropriate action and ensuring that confidentiality or personal health data is maintained.
- Flexibility to cover annual leave and sickness.
- To participate in appropriate meetings.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Clerical experience
- Experience in Hospital
- Client/customer contact
- Alpha/numerical filing accuracy
- Displays good communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Understands confidentiality
Qualifications and professional training
Essential
- Good standard of education
- Word processing skills
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To recognise the importance of punctuality
- Able to liaise & communicate with all disciplines
- Good communication and telephone skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Conscientious and hard working
- Demonstrate understanding of patient confidentiality
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrate good communication skills during interview including listening and positive body language.
- Demonstrate an insight in the needs of the organisation and patients/carers and demonstrate the need for sensitivity and diplomacy as required.
- Willing to cover for colleagues during times of absence, sometimes at short notice
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Clerical experience
- Experience in Hospital
- Client/customer contact
- Alpha/numerical filing accuracy
- Displays good communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Understands confidentiality
Qualifications and professional training
Essential
- Good standard of education
- Word processing skills
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To recognise the importance of punctuality
- Able to liaise & communicate with all disciplines
- Good communication and telephone skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Conscientious and hard working
- Demonstrate understanding of patient confidentiality
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrate good communication skills during interview including listening and positive body language.
- Demonstrate an insight in the needs of the organisation and patients/carers and demonstrate the need for sensitivity and diplomacy as required.
- Willing to cover for colleagues during times of absence, sometimes at short notice
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
