Receptionist

We are looking to recruit experienced, full or part-time receptionists |(max 30 hours) for The Emergency Department at The Northumbria Hospital in Cramlington covering a 24 hr service, 365 days of the year.

The job involves working a variety of shifts to cover the 24 hour period including 0800-2130 days and night-shifts 2000-0800, The role involves a wide variety of tasks including meeting and greeting patients and relatives on arrival to the hospital, answering telephoneenquiries, recording attendances to A&E on a computerised system (PAS data entry) and scanning A&E documents.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.