Oncology Day Unit Receptionist | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,515 Per annum including inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6103949/200-NN-6103949-AC |
Summary
We are seeking to recruit a Receptionist for Trevor Howell Day Unit, a busy oncology day unit that provides chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies to cancer patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, individual who has a passion for delivering excellent patient focused care. As the first point of contact for all patients on arrival to the unit, you will be responsible for delivering an efficient, high quality and responsive service for our patients.
The successful applicant will be expected to have experience working with a variety of booking systems and be familiar with working to varied processes.
We would welcome candidates who have prior experience working within patient or customer facing roles.
The oncology team at St George’s Hospital are looking for a flexible, approachable, reliable and motivated team player to work as a full time receptionist.
The post will involve working in a team with other receptions, schedulers & healthcare professionals & occasional support for the sibling haematology day unit.
Our busy day units provides chemotherapy, blood transfusions and other systemic anti-cancer treatments to patients within the Trust. With close links to the in-patient ward areas, the Haematology & Oncology team is small and friendly with a passion for providing outstanding care, every time.
This role is patient facing .You will need to be able to work well under pressure and cope with conflicting demands. Ideally you will have previous experience of working in an outpatient or day unit environment. You will possess excellent organisational, communication and IT skills. We mainly use iCLIP (Cerner) and ChemoCare IT systems. Knowledge of these systems would be an advantage but is not necessary as full training will be provided.
If you would like to be involved in a forward looking department, have the skills to contribute and enjoy a challenge, we would like to hear from you!
The closing date for this post may be brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
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