BCS Administrator

Administrative support is essential to ensure the smooth running of screening centre activities, undertaking the screening centre functions of the Bowel Cancer Screening System (BCSS), and to provide a central base for the service delivery of the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre.
This role is expected to exhibit specific skills in the effective delivery of the administrative needs within the bowel cancer screening centre. There is responsibility for maintaining local and national datasets and varied computerised applications.
The post holder therefore needs to be highly computer literate with training to support this. This role includes working collaboratively with the team of administrators, specialist screening practitioners and assistants and all disciplines and providers of the bowel cancer screening programme., The post holder will be responsible for key areas of administration for the centre including:
Co-ordinating the administrative and audit needs of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
Providing highly efficient and organised administrative support for the seamless running of the screening centre.
Act as the recognised liaison point for the programme for all internal and external contacts and enquiries.
Supporting the administration objectives for the smooth implementation of age extension.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative of the Administrator's Role and its purpose within the service; they are not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake additional or alternative administrative duties and responsibilities commensurate with the level of the post, and to support the smooth running of the department.
Provide a professional, welcoming and high-quality customer service which supports the provision of non-clinical advice to patients, colleagues and other multidisciplinary team members (including the Programme Hub) using email, telephone, text messages, face to face and in writing as required.
To assist and support patients where needed
Work collaboratively with the Programme Hub, Endoscopy Department & Key Stakeholders.
Schedule Specialist Screening Practitioner's clinics, Colonoscopy List, in agreement with the Bowel Cancer Screening Centre quality management system, service specifications and in collaboration with the Senior Administrator, and the wider bowel cancer screening centre clinical and management teams.
Ensure that all new referrals/appointment bookings are dealt with in accordance to BCSP and local trust processes, adhering to national and screening cancer waiting time targets.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.