Walk-In Service, Urgent Care Services Fife are currently recruiting for a Receptionist. You will join the Walk-In clinical care services team providing urgent care to 375,000 patients the population of Fife, covering 56 hours per week.
The successful candidate will be flexible, hardworking and friendly. They will provide high quality, professional reception and administrative service to patients, Walk In Service, Urgent Care Services Fife Staff and colleagues. They will act as the first point of contact for the patients arriving at our Walk In Centre and will display strong communication skills. They will be computer literate. Experience of working with the public would be an advantage.
Rotas will be agreed on a four week rolling basis. This will require post holders to be able to work flexibly between 10:00 and 18:00 Monday to Friday which includes all public holidays; this also includes Christmas Day / Boxing Day / New Year’s Day. The post holder would be expected to work these days as a normal working shift should the days fall on their agreed rota days. There may also be a requirement to work in the out of hours period and additional hours for Public Holidays and Protected Learning Time
Informal Enquiries: Angela La Porte [email protected] or Carie Drummond [email protected]
Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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.
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