Clinical Office Administrator, Ophthalmology

An exciting opportunity has arisen to further improve the Ophthalmology Department at Ashford Hospital.

This 37.5-hour role of Clinical Office Administrator is required to provide administrative support to the Surgery Booking Team. Candidates are required to have a high level of organisational skills and someone good at communicating with a wide range of healthcare professionals as well as patients and their relatives., Ophthalmology currently has a vacancy for administration support for the pre-assessment and surgery booking team based at Ashford Hospital to support the current established team.

Administration support will act as an essential point of contact for all patients waiting for a surgical procedure.

In this role, you will be vital in ensuring patients are booked in line with the Trust's Joint Access policy. If you have excellent communication and IT skills, and you are not phased in dealing with patients who may be anxious and have many queries, then please apply or contact me directly if you wish further information regarding the role.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.