Administrative Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,465 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 0SF |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7833658/319-7833658LH-HAS |
Summary
I have a reception post available for 3 days a week at Victoria Therapy Centre, North Shields, Monday - Wednesday.
The post may have to to provide relief reception cover to other sites. Travel costs will be paid, miles paid will be journey taken minus mileage from home to base.
Working hours will be 8.30am to 4.30pm with 30 minutes for lunch.
Candidates must have access to a vehicle to travel between sites and have a valid UK driving licence for that vehicle.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
• Provide first contact for patients and contractors directing them where to go.
• Taking and dealing with queries over the phone, including redirecting calls to team members on site.
• Managing appointment systems for Podiatry and District Nursing.
• Updating appointment systems for Podiatry and District Nursing
• Order Stationery and other items for the trust.
• Support Estates department in the running of the building.
• Ringing Taxi's for patient's which patient will pay for.
• Issue hearing aid batteries.
• Supporting other members of the trust as required.
• Locking and unlocking of some trust sites.
• Maintain photocopier and log repair calls where required.
• Updating records relating to the site(s) on various systems.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• Provide first contact for patients and contractors directing them where to go.
• Taking and dealing with queries over the phone, including redirecting calls to team members on site.
• Managing appointment systems for Podiatry and District Nursing.
• Updating appointment systems for Podiatry and District Nursing
• Order Stationery and other items for the trust.
• Support Estates department in the running of the building.
• Ringing Taxi's for patient's which patient will pay for.
• Issue hearing aid batteries.
• Supporting other members of the trust as required.
• Locking and unlocking of some trust sites.
• Maintain photocopier and log repair calls where required.
• Updating records relating to the site(s) on various systems.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Mar 2026