Outpatient Clinical Assistant - Head and Neck | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Jul 2026
Closing date:	2 Aug 2026

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Summary

The Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a successful, forward-thinking organisation that is committed to providing high quality care to our patients. This role is in the Head and Neck outpatients department, supporting Ears, Nose and Throat, Maxillofacial and Ophthalmology clinics.

We have an opportunity for enthusiastic, caring individuals to join our team in the Kings Treatment Centre where we deliver a variety of outpatient services. There is the opportunity receive a variety of training to allow you to undertake visions, fields, support in minor ops and support clinicians in outpatient clinics.

The Kings Treatment Centre is a contemporary hospital-based outpatient department, with first class, spacious and state of the art clinic suites. We provide specialist consultations and a wide range of diagnostic procedures and treatments for our patients.

The primary role of the Clinical Assistant is to provide high quality care to a designated group of patients, to promote a positive patient experience, working in collaboration with all members of the multidisciplinary team to achieve this.

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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jul 2026

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