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Job overview

Start Date: On or after 1st June 2024

Job Title: Ward Receptionist

Department: Endoscopy

Site / Hours:  Louth Hospital 27 hours 

Working days - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 08.30 - 16.30

(Flexible working can be considered between the hours of 08.00 - 18.00)

Salary: Band 2

Contract Type: Permanent

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) provides a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to the 700,000 people of Lincolnshire and beyond.

The Endoscopy Unit’s within the Trust perform a variety of standard and advanced Endoscopic procedures for both out-patients and in-patients including; gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, percutaneous endoscopic gastroscopy (PEG) insertion, oesophageal stenting and ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography). Other specialist work is also undertaken by individual consultants.

Main duties of the job

The units are moving towards a seven day a week service being open between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Our aim is to provide the very highest standards of care to patients and relatives a like ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times. Reporting to the Endoscopy Support Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for meeting and greeting the patients on arrival and ensuring the paper work is prepared for their appointment while providing a professional, comprehensive and confidential administrative function to the Endoscopy Unit. Duties will also include the booking of new and follow up appointments for Urology patients, in which training will be given.

There may be occasions when there is a need to travel Trust wide to cover other sites.

Candidates should have: - Excellent interpersonal skills - Excellent communication skills both verbal and written - Evidence of the ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines - Medway training & knowledge of the Endoscopy units would be a benefit but not essential.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.