Bank Receptionist - Gillingham | South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,465 pro rata based on 22.5 hours per week |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 February 2026 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME8 6PL |
| Company: | South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7711295/278-BRg-0126-AS |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a busy and varied environment? We are looking for enthusiastic individual to join our Reception function on a bank contract at our Make Ready Centre in Bredgar Road Gillingham.
This purpose built building is home to 111 call taker colleagues, Emergency Operations Centre (999) colleagues and our Medway Operational Unit. This is the first Ambulance Centre in the Country to bring all of these three exciting functions together under one roof.
If you have excellent customer service and reception skills, and enjoy meeting people, then you will enjoy the challenge of working as part of this busy team.
Reception is open Monday to Friday 08.00 am to 17.00 pm . Please note this is a bank contract, meaning you will be asked to work as and when required.
As the first point of contact to the main entrance to the building, you will greet colleagues and visitors ensuring they are signposted appropriately and security/health & safety requirements are met. You will deal with postal deliveries and couriers, and monitor the entry gates to the building, identifying all internal and external callers. You will be able to work on your own initiative as well as working within a large team, to manage tasks to ensure the front reception area runs smoothly.
• NHS employees will be eligible to join the NHS Pension Scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing with service.
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
• Access to our award-winning Wellbeing services
• Access to occupational health and counselling services.
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
- greeting colleagues and visitors and signposting them to the correct floor/department
- dealing with all internal and external post
• dealing with all courier and ad hoc deliveries
• flagging any estates related/facilities issues
This advert closes on Friday 23 Jan 2026
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