Job summary
This is an office-based post within the Histopathology Department (located at the Cotman Centre), which forms part of the Cellular Pathology directorate. The department has a workload of around 83,000 patient requests per year. This presents an opportunity to be part of an excellent team working in a busy, modern, progressive hospital laboratory service.
Histopathology receives and processes patient samples to provide diagnostic reports to hospital clinicians and General Practitioners. This is a good opportunity to learn administrative work practices and work with a committed team of office, laboratory and consultant staff.
The service is currently moving towards a full digital pathology reporting.
Main duties of the job
The role will provide an important supporting role to the medical secretaries and consultant pathologists. Your main duties will include; preparing reports and microscope slides for over 25 multidisciplinary team meetings, filing tasks, handling queries from service users, Histopathologists and lab staff, processing post and sending away referral and research work, some typing work and PC work.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organising reports and retrieving slides for Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings for a range of specialisms within the trust.
- Liaising with members of staff from other departments and hospitals (via telephone, nhs.net and NNUH outlook).
- Entering patient data on the Pathology computer system.
- Assisting with the collection of data for reports.
- Sorting post, filing and scanning paper reports plusretrieving and filing reports and slides.
- Assisting with typing duties for macroscopic digital dictation (in-house training will be given).
- Assisting with laboratory administration duties, if required.
Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Organising reports and retrieving slides for Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings for a range of specialisms within the trust.
- Liaising with members of staff from other departments and hospitals (via telephone, nhs.net and NNUH outlook).
- Entering patient data on the Pathology computer system.
- Assisting with the collection of data for reports.
- Sorting post, filing and scanning paper reports plusretrieving and filing reports and slides.
- Assisting with typing duties for macroscopic digital dictation (in-house training will be given).
- Assisting with laboratory administration duties, if required.
Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of education, good general standard of literacy and numeracy.
Experience
Essential
- Good general computer/IT skills.
Skills
Essential
- Possess good communication and presentation skills.
- Able to effectively work within a complex multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to show flexibility by performing multiple tasks.
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of education, good general standard of literacy and numeracy.
Experience
Essential
- Good general computer/IT skills.
Skills
Essential
- Possess good communication and presentation skills.
- Able to effectively work within a complex multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to show flexibility by performing multiple tasks.
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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).
