Senior Clerical Officer

The Peggy Wood Breast Unit at Maidstone Hospital has a part-time 1 yr fixed term contract vacancy for a Band 3Senior Clerical Officer, Monday/Tuesday/ Thurday &Friday 30.0 hours per week., The post also involves communication with patients and all members of the multi-disciplinary team; face-to-face and by telephone. Therefore an outgoing nature and pleasant manner is essential, displaying tact and diplomacy where necessary. Additional duties include record keeping and the input of data onto the Breast screening computer programme. Previous experience in a healthcare setting and use of patient databases is essential.

Are you able to work under pressure and in a challenging environment? Do you enjoy working as part of a lively team? Are you adaptable and able to cope with an ever changing service? If so and you have good organisational skills, are professional, a good team player and able to work without close supervision and on your own initiative then this may be the job for you.

The successful candidate will be joining the Breast Screening Office team, who strive to ensure patient care is at the forefront of our service. You will provide clerical and admin support which contributes to the smooth running of the breast screening office. Accuracy and attention to detail is paramount for this post which involves scheduling and booking appointments for routine and urgent breast examinations and procedures, ensuring national targets are not breached., Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.