146376 - Administration Assistant

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

**Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage**

Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within our West Lothian Community Vaccination Team as an Admin Assistant to provide high quality support in the daily running of our vaccination programme and services.

As a member of the team, you will possess excellent organisation, time management, communication, and interpersonal skills as well as a good eye for detail and a conscientious approach to your work to ensure that systems are maintained, and documents are produced to a high standard. You will be highly motivated and adaptable with an ability to work independently and as part of a team.

This post has a wide and varied workload working with various teams and some of these duties will include welcoming patients face to face, registering patients on TURAS, answering telephone calls and ad hoc admin tasks as required, therefore candidates must have an excellent telephone manner and good communication skills.

Full training and ongoing support will be provided with the opportunity to learn various new skills whilst supporting multi-agency staffing groups.

Please note this position is Friday – Monday (8:15am – 17:45pm) – 36 hrs per week

Informal enquiries to – patricia.weir2@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk