Switchboard Operator

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Chichester, England, United Kingdom 💼 Part time 🕒 Posted June 24, 2026

Job Description

Job overview

Switchboard operates a 24 hour a day service across 365 days of the year. 


Answering all incoming and internal calls to the Trust in a responsive and professional manner, ensuring requests are dealt with quickly and efficiently. The weekly call volumes are anywhere between 10,000 – 13,000 calls as well as connecting internal teams together. 


We are the first point of contact for worried patients, concerned family > members, the public and professional services and partnership organisations who contact the Trust as well as all internal users. 


At times busy and pressured, we put out all Emergency team alerts across the hospitals ensuring the correct staff are contacted as a priority. We also prepare the on-call rota for the Trust to use. We monitor and report all hospital alarms from Fire alarms to people stuck in lifts, to gas cylinders that need changing. The operators have to be very resilient and patient, dealing wit...

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Job Details

  • Location Chichester, England
  • Job Type Part time
  • Category Communications Equipment Operators
  • Posted Date June 24, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 03, 2026