Job summary
Employer heading
Patient Administrator MIiU
Band 2
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
Stroud Hospital has a dedicated Minor Injury and Illness unit that operates from 08:00-20:00, 7 days a week and is a Practitioner led service
We require a Patient administrator to support the team for 15 hours a week in providing a service during the evening, at weekends & on a Bank Holiday;
To include:
- one Monday-Friday evening shift of 17:00 – 20:00 hrs
- AND
- Either 08:00- 14:00 hrs or 14:00- 20:00 hrs or 08:00 – 20:00 hrs on a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday.
We are a forward thinking and dynamic unit dealing with a variety of minor injuries, illness, trauma and medicine.
If you have excellent communication and organisational skills, work well under pressure and are computer literate you will enjoy the challenge this position offers.
The service uses SystmOne so previous experience with this programme will be an advantage but not essential.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be self-motivated, enthusiastic and be able to demonstrate the following
- Possess the ability to prioritise their own workload within a tight deadline together with their co-workers.
- Cope well under pressure
- Work well within a team and on their own.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Have good organizational skills.
- Demonstrate initiative and flexibility together with good attention to detail
- You must be able to deal with sensitive information and interact with patients to deal with their enquiries.
Prior experience of call handling, management and entering data into a number of systems is beneficial. Knowledge of SystmOne is an advantage but not essential.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to GCSE level in Mathematics and English to Grade C or above
Desirable criteria
- • NVQ 2 in administration or relevant equivalent experience or qualification
NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working in a customer facing environment (face to face and via the telephone)
Desirable criteria
- • Some experience of working in a healthcare environment is desirable but not essential
SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- • Ability to use a range of IT systems and Microsoft Packages
- • Confident to liaise with other organisations and people as appropriate
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of NHS systems such as SystmOne
PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- • Be able to communicate with people from different backgrounds and at different levels within the organisation and with external stakeholders
- • Ability to manage your own workload and work on own initiative dealing with conflicting priorities and able to meet demands of working in a busy environment
- • Good communication skills both written and verbal
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Hicks
- Job title
- Team Lead Stroud MIiU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 421 8052
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