Administration and Clerical Officer Cardiac Diagnostics

As an Admin & Clerical Officer, you'll play a key role in supporting smooth patient journeys within Cardiac Diagnostics. Working as part of a friendly and supportive team, your contribution will help deliver an efficient, accurate and compassionate service. You will provide essential administrative support.

• Providing a professional reception service across Cardiac Diagnostic reception, acting as the first point of contact for patients and signposting appropriately.
• Booking and managing inpatient and outpatient appointments, ensuring cancellations are effectively utilised.
• Maintaining accurate and confidential patient records.
• Handling telephone and face-to-face queries professionally and escalating as required.
• Supporting service development and Safecare initiatives.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of high-quality diagnostic services in a fast-paced environment, where teamwork and patient care are at the heart of everything we do.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead. Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients. We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region. Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement. We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks. The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.