Administrative Assistant

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St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, GBR
In-Office
Entry level
Healthtech
The Role
Manage reception and administrative operations at a healthcare centre. Responsibilities include greeting customers, handling calls and emails, preparing clinical paperwork, managing results and reports, booking appointments and referrals, processing payments and invoices, handling post, monitoring supplies, and maintaining well-presented facilities. The role requires excellent customer service, organization, communication, computer literacy, flexibility, and the ability to work autonomously in a busy, multidisciplinary environment.
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Job Description:

Administrative Assistant – Mindplace

Mindplace St Albans, Suite 2, West Wing - 1 Abbey View, Everard Cl, St Albans AL1 2PS

Competitive Salary plus excellent benefits

Working Hours are between: 08:00 to 22:00 & rotational weekends 09:00 to 17:00.

Shift patterns are organised in advance and usually over 5 day week, with 1 day in lieu when working a weekend day.
 

Shift Pattern:

To support our clients, our Mind Place centres opening hours are:

  • Rotating rota: Shifts are scheduled in advance and take place between 8:00am and 10:00pm, Monday to Friday.

  • Weekend coverage: Occasional weekend shifts (9:00am to 5:00pm) are required, with a day off in lieu provided during the week, maintaining a 5-day working week.

We believe caring for your mind should feel as natural as caring for your body. That’s why we’re creating dedicated spaces with expert face-to-face support, grounded in nearly 80 years of trusted Bupa care.

As an employee at Bupa, our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients every day.

We make health happen

We are looking for a dedicated individual to efficiently and effectively manage all administrative and receptionist activities. This role is essential for the smooth operation of our centre and is crucial in providing outstanding customer service. You will be a key support network, ensuring that every interaction with our customers, both adults and children, is special and memorable. Your commitment to excellent service will help create positive experiences for everyone who visits us.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

  • Greeting and welcoming customers in addition to supporting the customer journey throughout the centre right through to a thorough checkout

  • Answering, screening and forwarding incoming customer queries via phone calls and proactively managing local mailbox and emails

  • Proactive in maintaining a well-presented reception and waiting areas

  • Ensuring customer reports are dispatched from centres within the desired time frame. This includes
    effective management of abnormal results

  •  Ensure all customers have the correct paperwork to support their visit – appointment packs (where applicable), clinical file preparation and consent forms

  • Effective results management (including receiving, scanning, and uploading) and follow-up of suppliers to ensure turnaround within the agreed SLA

  • Ensure all customer details are correct, customers have arrived, appointments booked, changed, and rescheduled on EXACT/BOSS/Meddbase. Process of payments, invoices, added charges and credit notes upon customer departure

  • Organise self to ensure a quick turnaround of documents, working in date order and prioritising to meet deadlines

  • Assist in bookings of mammograms and MSK referrals (where delivered at the centre)

  • Post – collect, open, date stamp, distribute incoming post, and post outgoing post.

  • Generate letters as required by the business.

  • Monitor stocks and order goods when required.

  • Process invoices/delivery notes as per Bupa policy

  • Play an active part in ensuring well-presented facilities through pro-activity and effective escalation as and when required.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

  • Deliver an outstanding customer service by being friendly and welcoming

  • Administrative and reception experience

  • Well organised, reliable and have a proactive attitude

  • Computer literate

  • Knowledge of medical terminology (desirable)

Personal characteristics:

  • Flexible with hours, days and shift patterns

  • Adaptable to a changing environment

  • Resilient and driven to provide a world class service in challenging situations

  • Well-developed communication skills.

  • Effective time management.

  • Ability to work autonomously in a busy environment.

  • Understanding of the business environment.

  • Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team
     

Benefits:

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

  • 25 days’ holiday (increasing with service) + option to buy/sell

  • 3 paid volunteering days

  • Enhanced pension & life insurance

  • Bupa health insurance

  • Discounted dental cover

  • Digital GP access

  • Emotional and family wellbeing support

  • Financial wellbeing resources

  • Support for carers
     

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage interested candidates to submit their application as soon as possible.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Administration

Locations:

Mindplace St Albans

Skills Required

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Friendly and welcoming approach with outstanding customer service
  • Administrative and reception experience
  • Well-organized, reliable, and proactive attitude
  • Computer literacy
  • Flexibility with hours, days, and shift patterns
  • Adaptability to a changing environment
  • Resilience and drive to provide high-quality service in challenging situations
  • Effective time management
  • Ability to work autonomously in a busy environment
  • Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
  • Knowledge of medical terminology

Bupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bupa and has not been reviewed or approved by Bupa.

  • Healthcare Strength Health cover via the UK Health Trust, day‑one medical support for frontline roles, and dedicated women’s health initiatives indicate a robust, health‑centric package. Access to digital GP, nurse lines, and options such as dental and health cash plans further reinforce medical and preventive care breadth.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing programs span mental, physical, emotional, and financial support, with offerings like EAP access, gym discounts, and health assessments. Flexible work and wellbeing programs highlighted in some regions add to lifestyle value.
  • Parental & Family Support Policies include enhanced parental leave in certain UK business units and a family mental‑health support line. Options to extend medical coverage to dependants and family‑oriented allowances strengthen support beyond the individual.

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The Company
HQ: London
23,800 Employees
Year Founded: 1947

What We Do

Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We are an international healthcare company serving over 38 million customers worldwide. With no shareholders, we reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. We directly employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland. We also have associate businesses in Saudi Arabia and India. For more information, visit www.bupa.com

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