Job summary
- Main area
- Pre-assessment
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-6858095
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal free London NHS trust
- Town
- london
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5 Pathway Manager
NHS AfC: Band 5
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
To lead a team of administrators who are responsible for providing a front-line reception service in the pre-assessment service and provide administrative support to the Nursing Staff working within the pre-assessment.
They will deliver a high standard of customer care to a wide range of client groups, including clinic multi-disciplinary teams, patients, relatives, and their carers. The post holder will be responsible for the smooth running of the patient journey within the service and assist to streamline administrative processes revolving around the patient and their individual needs.
The post-holder will develop strong working relationships and work closely with staff cross site, nursing staff, anaesthetists and members of the complex Multi-Disciplinary team. This includes working with consultants, divisional and operational managers. The post holder will be expected to directly line manage the administrative staff working in pre-assessment and provide cross- cover to their role in the event of absence and annual leave.
The post-holder must undertake effective forward planning to ensure that the administrative needs of the service are met and carry out a range of effective administration processes to support the delivery of high-quality patient care.
The administrator manager is responsible for the management and prioritisation of their own workload and the day-to-day management of the administrative team.
Main duties of the job
- Supervise the day-to-day work of the administrative team.
- Use their customer service skills to help resolve queries and to achieve a high standard of customer satisfaction. Including to coordinate and engage in the patient feedback (FFT)
- Ensure that patient navigators and other members of the administrative team always adhere to Trust policies and standard operating procedures, highlighting to senior management any situations where this is not achievable.
- Manage sickness/absence and recording of annual leave of the team, ensuring service delivery is not compromised, coordinating duty rosters of team where appropriate.
- Ensure ESR information including annual leave, sickness absence and any changes in employment contracts for the administrative team are maintained in conjunction with ER and payroll.
- Ensure an equitable and allocation and distribution of the workload across the team, with staff working flexibly to accommodate the needs of the patients and the clinicians they are supporting.
- Manage the recruitment process for the appointment of new staff to the department with support of the service manager
- Coordinate and engage in the induction of new team members, sharing knowledge and expertise of the administrative processes and functions.
- Monitor individual and team performance regularly, holding 1:1 meetings, appraisals according to Trust Policy and Team meetings.
Working for our organisation
The Royal free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat 200,00 in A+E, deliver 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.
Our Size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled opportunities and a forward thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values.
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma level qualification or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- English and Maths at GCSE level or equivalent
- Customer services attendance certificate
- Strong working knowledge and proficient in the use of Outlook package – Power point, Excel, Microsoft word as well as email, Internet.
Desirable criteria
- Undergraduate degree
- RSA 2 or RSA 3-word processing/typing or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working with the public and/or patients in a healthcare environment
- Experience of interaction with all levels of staff
- Experience of dealing with nonroutine and complex problems.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of drawing up staff rosters
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Understanding patient confidentiality
- Awareness of National and Trust pathway targets (such as 18 week RTT target)
- Ability to use databases.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to confidently interact and share knowledge with staff at all levels.
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain excellent communication channels and good customer services
- Ability to work under pressure and use own initiative to prioritise tasks
- Proactive, forward -thinking, quick problem -solving attitude
- Ability to work flexibly to accommodate peaks and troughs of activity
- Teamwork and ability to develop strong collaborative working relationships with different teams.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- sarah alzayady
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 794 0500
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