Receptionist/Ward Clerk
Listed on 2026-09-17
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Administrative/Clerical
Office Administrator/ Coordinator, Clerical, Healthcare Administration, Medical Receptionist
Job Title:
Receptionist / Ward Clerk
Location:
Candidate required across multiple locations - Witney Community Hospital, Chipping Norton Memorial Hospital, Bicester Community Hospital, Murray House (Jordan hill), The Fiennes Centre (Banbury)
Hours:
37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday on shift rota 8am - 4pm / 9am - 5pm / 10am - 6pm
Trust:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Role type:
Temporary for 6 months with possibility of becoming permanent
To provide multi-site comprehensive administrative support across all of the Community Hospital wards and outpatient departments, to enable delivery of a first-class patient journey. There are 6 Community Hospital sites covering Oxfordshire and flexibility on location of workplace will be required daily
Duties required- To provide the tasks and responsibilities listed below across 8 Community Hospitals wards, working where required on a daily basis. Cover will include administration, ward clerk and reception duties as required by the site.
- Assist the team in all administration duties relating to the day to day running of the reception and outpatients’ service.
- Provide a high standard of administration support to the Ward Management team.
- Prioritise your own workload and act independently within appropriate guidelines.
- To be competent on EMIS (patients electronic health record system), to become a champion and RA agent for the system to support all staff with training updates.
- Support with all areas of the electronic rostering system Health Roster. This includes; printing out the weekly staff roster, making shift changes on the system, escalating vacant shifts in accordance with the trust policy to staffing solutions and updating the system accordingly.
- Updating the ward equipment spreadsheet with all new items.
- E-procurement – electronic ordering of stock supplies
- Support with room booking requests for teams and individuals.
- Accurately type and distribute correspondence, minutes and other documents.
- Perform general office duties including: responding to email and phone enquiries. Answering the telephone, taking and recording messages accurately, responding to queries appropriately, following Trust procedures and protocols organise the maintenance of the filing systems.
- Take accurate action notes and minutes as required arranging meetings and maintaining diaries.
- Assist other team members in their work as required.
This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years relevant experience.
You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:- Ability to plan and organise work to meet deadlines.
- Strong Computer Skills
- Organised and have the ability to coordinate and prioritise own workload
- Transcribing minutes
- Strong typing skills
- Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
- Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
- Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
- Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- Training and development opportunities
- Keep up with the essentials and more - Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is…
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