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This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a small friendly team undertaking receptionist and administrative duties in the Wheelchair and Prosthetic Services based at the DSC building on the Freeman site.

We are looking for a flexible and enthusiastic candidate who is an excellent team player, well-motivated and capable of working in a busy but rewarding environment. The successful candidate will provide an efficient and friendly reception service to patients and visitors, either in person or by telephone, ensuring a high quality of customer care is always delivered. Behind our front-facing reception role there are various general admin tasks associated with the services such as referral processing and data input. No two days are the same in this small and friendly team.

Interview Date 12 November 2026

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You will be responsible for the reception of patients and visitors to the department. This includes arriving patients for their appointments and working with clinical staff to achieve patient satisfaction.

To ensure that any enquiries are dealt with in a prompt, responsive and courteous manner always to ensure patients are satisfied with the service provided by the Reception Team and to ensure the Trust is portrayed in a positive manner.

Your regular duties in this role will be dealing with telephone, face-to-face and electronic enquiries, booking and/or amending patient appointments and contacting patients to provide information.

You will be responsible for undertaking a wide range of duties and the provision of general support to the multidisciplinary team. Duties will involve working in both the Administration and Reception areas of the department.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

Freeman Hospital

Newcastle Dental Hospital

Cramlington Manor Walks

Urgent treatment centres

Newcastle Fertility Centre

Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

To provide and maintain an efficient and reliable appointments service to patients attending all DSC clinics.

Deals with all telephone enquires promptly and efficiently.