Job Description

We have an exciting and new opportunity for an Admin Assistant to join our team in Hitchin on a full-time and permanent basis. Duties would include general administrative tasks such as scanning submission forms and filing them correctly, along with typing up reports for the pathologists.

• Booking cases onto a database daily.
• Answering telephone calls – fielding out calls and answering queries appropriately.
• Booking couriers for inland and international shipments.
• Ordering supplies for our clients.
• Actioning emails including requests such as sending out price lists, blocks, slides, booking in additional tests etc.
• Ensuring pathologists are aware of reports that are being chased – collating paperwork and slides and passing them over to a pathologist if necessary.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Confident Professional Telephone Manner.
• A flexible self-motivated team player.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to plan workload.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Basic computer skills.
• Previous experience with medical terminology.
• Audio typing experience.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience of data inputting.