Receptionist / Clerical Officer

The Occupational Health Service for Hywel Dda University Health Board is seeking an Occupational Health Receptionist/Clerical Officer to work with the experienced administrative team for the Service., Duties will include answering the telephone, reception duties, arranging clinics, updating and managing electronic records to the service and responding to enquiries; electronic, verbal and face to face.

These roles within Occupational Health are both interesting and diverse, together with being extremely busy as there is a daily need to liaise with service users, including staff and managers, other services such as Infection Prevention and Control, Health and Safety Managers, Workforce etc; so a professional and sympathetic personal and telephone manner is vital for the role.

Staff working in the Organisation will come from a variety of multicultural backgrounds, so the post-holder must be able to support those with cultural or language difficulties.

The Occupational Health Service is also aiming to provide a paper free service so a good level of computer literacy is essential for the post.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (six of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres