The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Administration Assistant

The closing date is 07 September 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Secretarial Team within Renal Services as a Band 2 Administration Assistant. Post holder will be required to provide an efficient administrative service to the clinicians and their teams.

The successful candidate will work within a team of secretarial staff, but also have the ability to work independently. They will be required to follow Policies and Procedures.

The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, flexibility, reliability and must have an organised approach to work.

Interview Date: 25th September2025
15 Hours/Week
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Main duties of the job

This role involves working closely with patients, medical and nursing staff. Post holders will be required to provide an efficient administrative service

The role will include:

Keeping VR dictation and typing up to date for the clinical team

Opening and distributing post

Making ad-hoc appointments

Ad-hoc admin duties as requested by the clinical team

Talking to patients over the telephone and ensuring their queries are dealt with efficiently

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

o Freeman Hospital

o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

o Newcastle Dental Hospital

o Newcastle Fertility Centre

o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

o Northern Genetics Service

o Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Date posted

29 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

317-2025-34-15-DR

Job locations

Freeman Hospital

317 01 Freeman Hospital

NE7 7DN

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the provision of an efficient admin and clerical service within the operational services department.

To ensure patient documents are prepared, updated and available a timely manner.

Provide information to patients, relatives and staff.

Deal with telephone enquires promptly.

To ensure that data input is amended as necessary

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the provision of an efficient admin and clerical service within the operational services department.

To ensure patient documents are prepared, updated and available a timely manner.

Provide information to patients, relatives and staff.

Deal with telephone enquires promptly.

To ensure that data input is amended as necessary

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Good standard of English, grammar, punctuation and spelling at GCSE or equivalent level

Desirable

ECDL computer qualification

Knowledge & Experience

Desirable

Previous experience working within the NHS
Knowledge of the eRecord System

Skills & Abilities

Essential

Good communication and interpersonal skills
Effective organisation and time management skills
Keyboard skills
IT skills

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Good standard of English, grammar, punctuation and spelling at GCSE or equivalent level

Desirable

ECDL computer qualification

Knowledge & Experience

Desirable

Previous experience working within the NHS
Knowledge of the eRecord System

Skills & Abilities

Essential

Good communication and interpersonal skills
Effective organisation and time management skills
Keyboard skills
IT skills

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.