Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Receptionist

The closing date is 01 December 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly motivated Receptionist to join our dental team at our Blackburn Clinic within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Dental Service.

We provide a number of services including Special care, Urgent care and Paediatric dentistry. You must demonstrate excellent communication skills, initiative, drive and the ability to work within a team.

The post will also be required to work across Central, East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, to assist in the excellent delivery of Dental Care. You should also have effective interpersonal skills enabling you to communicate with people at all levels, face to face and over the telephone. We look forward to you working with us by joining our motivated, friendly and dynamic teams.

The base for this post will be at Barbara Castle Way Health Centre, however we also work closely with the team at Darwen Health Centre and Royal Blackburn Hospital.

We recruiting two part time receptionists role:

1 x 30 hours a week1 x 22.5 hours a week

Main duties of the job

To efficiently assist with the daily running of dental treatment services for the Lancashire Care Dental Service. This will include all aspects of booking appointments, dealing with telephone and counter enquiries from the public, other health care professionals and other dentists. To undertake various clerical duties including providing clerical assistance to clinicians and senior staff.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Date posted

17 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

351-SPS1527-JD

Job locations

Barbara Castle Way Health Centre

Blackburn

BB2 1AX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
Good standard of education

Knowledge

Essential

RSA III typing or equivalent knowledge and experience
ECDL or equivalent knowledge and experience of using Microsoft office

Experience

Essential

Reception experience (including face to face booking of appointments/filing)
Experience of admin in office-based environment
Ability to produce accurately typed and photocopied documents efficiently and to a high standard

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
Good standard of education

Knowledge

Essential

RSA III typing or equivalent knowledge and experience
ECDL or equivalent knowledge and experience of using Microsoft office

Experience

Essential

Reception experience (including face to face booking of appointments/filing)
Experience of admin in office-based environment
Ability to produce accurately typed and photocopied documents efficiently and to a high standard

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

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Barbara Castle Way Health Centre

Blackburn

BB2 1AX

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Barbara Castle Way Health Centre

Blackburn

BB2 1AX

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)