Clerical Assistant

The post holder will be responsible for general administrative tasks, which will include operating our telephone system dealing with telephone queries, as well as a looking after a busy reception area and booking patient appointments.

The administrative team also provide support to in-patient and out-patient physiotherapy teams.

The post holder will need to demonstrate excellent communications skills.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.