Dietetic Administrator

Job summary

An opportunity has risen for part time enthusiastic and hard-working administrator to cover maternity leave for a year to work at Ealing Hospital. You will be responsible for providing administrative support to the clinical Nutrition and Dietetic team. You must manage your own workload in part time hours. You would need an attention to detail, good time management skills and the ability to adapt to changing work priorities

The Ealing dietetic team is a small friendly, supportive team who are part of a larger London Northwest University NHS team across Northwick Park and Central Middlesex Hospitals.

The post will ideally suit someone with a mature outlook who can work effectively as a team member and on their own initiative. You should be educated to a GCSE level or equivalent and have a good working knowledge MS office.

Main duties of the job

Duties will include providing administrative support with recruitment and induction of all new team members to the department including dietetic students. Other duties include supporting team with IT systems, booking, and managing appointment queries and ordering stationery

The successful candidate will need to be self-motivated. We need a confident communicator who can be sensitive and empathetic to patients and staff needs.

The role will involve a variety of administrative functions including speaking to patients and staff on the phone, working with databases and clinical systems and maintaining a patient appointment system

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.