Reception Administrator

The post holder will need to prioritise the many demands of this role and work to tight timescales, whilst maintaining the required standards.
The key part of the role is to maximise room usage and providing front of house services for meetings, training days and conferences that are held in the PGEC. This includes setting up rooms and equipment as required.
The post holder will also provide administrative support for medical education, predominately to the operations and quality manager, deputy medical education manager and the strategic medical education manager, but this could include the wider medical education team at busy times.
We are looking for an enthusiastic team player, who possess excellent communication and persuasion skills at all levels, organisation skills and initiative to manage a varying workload across the year.
You will have strong communication skills verbally and written. You will be able to liaise and communicate with senior personnel. You will be able to manage and organise a busy workload with support, but have the initiative to work independently on work, whilst assisting colleagues as needed in a busy medical education working environment.
We are ideally looking for someone with previous front facing customer service experience.

Working for our organisation
We are a leading local employer with a diverse workforce of approximately 6,000 staff, dedicated to providing healthcare services to a growing population of around 780,000 individuals.
Our Trust provides both emergency and planned healthcare across East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon - covering towns like Crawley, Horsham, Reigate, and Redhill. Our main hospital, East Surrey in Redhill, offers a full range of acute and specialist services and is also the closest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport. We also provide outpatient, diagnostic, and planned care services at sites including The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital, Oxted Health Centre, Crawley Hospital, and Horsham Hospital.
We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we work hard to create an environment where everyone feels valued and supported. At our Trust, we strive to be the best place to work and receive care. We are dedicated to supporting you in your current role while helping you grow and develop your career. As part of our team, you will have access to excellent training opportunities, flexible working, dedicated support networks, and a strong emphasis on health and wellbeing to ensure a thriving and positive work environment., Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust operates a 24-hour service, 365 days a year. As such, all nursing, clinical, and operational roles may involve working on a 24/7 shift basis, unless otherwise specified during the recruitment process. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workforce and actively encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.
Successful candidates will be appointed to the first pay step within the band when they start with the Trust (unless they have previous relevant NHS continuous service), thereafter individuals will progress up the pay steps in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) terms and conditions. For part time roles you will receive a pro rata'd (proportional) salary payment based on the appropriate pay step/point and hours worked in accordance with AfC and all medical and dental terms and conditions.
Note: Some vacancies may receive a high volume of applications. In such cases, the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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