Bowel Cancer Screening Administrator

Job Overview

6-Month Fixed Term Contract (Part-Time, 30 hours per week)

We are currently seeking a motivated and approachable individual to join the Bowel Cancer Screening team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. This part-time position is offered on a 6-month fixed term contract and supports the screening programme across both East and West Berkshire.

The ideal candidate will be a team player with excellent organisational skills, the ability to multitask effectively, and a strong focus on patient care.

This role involves regular interaction with patients, clinical staff, and colleagues, so strong communication skills and a proactive, initiative-driven approach are essential. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about delivering high-quality patient service, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide advice, information, and support for those making direct contact with the screening centre.
• Ensure timely access to screening colonoscopy or alternative diagnostic intervention and seamless transition to agreed pathways in primary, secondary, tertiary, or out-patient care settings, during all stages of the screening pathway.
• Populate and maintain the BCSP local database.
• Participate in ongoing data collection and quality assurance, service feedback and audit.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good education to GCSE standard or equivalent to reflect numeracy and literacy skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous use of hospital patient administration system
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a hospital or busy office environment
• Significant experience in difficult customer facing situations
• Experience of working to exacting deadlines
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of NHS philosophies
  
  

Skills & knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise, use own initiative and make decisions
• A team player
• Ability to communicate appropriately and professionally to patients, staff/stakeholders at different levels.
• Adaptable/flexible to meet the needs of the department / working practices
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Wish to extend computer skills
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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