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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
About
We are one of London's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a strong profile of local services primarily serving the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.
Our specialist services are available to patients across a wider catchment area, providing nationally and internationally recognised work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and foetal medicine.
Source - Trust Website
Radiography Administration Assistant
Accepting applications until: 09-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Princess Royal University Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Farnborough Common
- Tref
- Orpington
- Cod post
- BR68ND
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 9 months (fixed term)
- Oriau
- Full time - 25 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £30,630 - £32,346 per annum, including high cost allowance
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Radiology
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and organised individual to join our team as a Radiology Appointment Coordinator for a fixed term post for 9 months. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, a professional and courteous manner, and the ability to remain calm under pressure. You will be supporting the extremely busy Radiology departments across the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, and Beckenham Beacon with the expectation to cover
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The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive appointment booking service and organising reception desk operations to ensure that all radiology reception areas across three sites are run efficiently and effectively, in line with departmental protocols.
The successful candidate will prioritise patient needs while ensuring compliance with departmental procedures and national booking programme requirements. The role requires a thorough understanding of radiology investigations, healthcare information systems, and appointment booking processes.
The post holder must be proficient in all Microsoft Excel applications and demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills. They must have the ability to multitask, prioritise workloads, and remain effective while working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
· Responsible for welcoming patients, staff and all other visitors to the reception desk, deal with all enquiries in a kind and courteous manner.
· Responsible for checking personal details and updating when booking appointments or when patient attends on EPIC system.
· Responsible for dealing with all referral forms in accordance with the department policies and procedures.
· Responsible for reading and interpreting information on referral forms and become familiar with terminology.
· Answering and dealing with a high volume of calls via the call centre phone system.
· Responsible for ensuring all GP request forms are scanned for reporting purposes.
· Responsible for taking post to post room in order to ensure the prompt delivery of appointment letters
· Responsible for making appointments using the EPIC System adhering to RTT booking targets
· Responsible for accessing appointment booking systems for all routine x-ray, screening and scanning diaries to identify appointment times.
· Responsible for checking waiting lists on EPIC system daily ensuring appointments are made within the department timescales(RTT)
· Responsible for entering data onto EPIC system accurately.
· Responsible for printing and dispatching electronically produced appointment letters having identified appropriate preparation and information leaflets for enclosure.
· Responsible for monitoring patients in the waiting area and responding to their needs and alerting appropriate members of staff if patient is in need of assistance.
· Responsible for reporting equipment/system faults to the IT Department.
· Carryout all other administrative duties e.g. emailing, photocopying, organising porters.
· Observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to both patients and staff.
· To be fully aware of safety policies and procedures of working in all radiology areas
· Be fully proficient on all patient information systems throughout the Trust in order to extract information and monitor patients pathways
· To ensure that all daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed within agreed timeframes.
· To cover for colleagues during periods of absence
· To be responsible for negotiating with ward staff to arrange in-patients examinations at a mutually convenient time for the ward and modality.
· Responsible for preparing morning and afternoon in-patients list when required.
· Responsible for preparing porters patient collection list
· To undertake further duties not covered in the job description to ensure smooth running of the department and are deemed appropriate to grade and responsibilities of the post.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to GCSE level to include Mathematics and English
Meini prawf dymunol
- ICT Qualification or equivalent work based experience
Knowledge and Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Proficient with Microsoft Office: Word/Excel/Outlook.
- Ability to handle patient data and information in a confidential and sensitive fashion.
- Must be able to adapt to a rapidly changing workload and direction.
- Administrative and Clerical experience
- Experience of dealing with the public
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of national DM01, RTT and cancer waiting time targets
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Experience of working within NHS.
- Experience of EPIC SYSTEMS
Skills and Competencies
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Working to strict deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Must be able to handle a diverse workload in both a busy administrative and clinical setting.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Calm and polite manner
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Katie Clint
- Teitl y swydd
- Office Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01689 866123
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Tanya German -Service Manager - [email protected] / 01689 865828
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