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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent: This role maybe required to work at Frimley, Fleet or Farnham hospitals
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
151-RO24-A
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Frimley Park Hospital
Town
Camberley
Salary
£24,008 - £25,553 Per annum (pro-rata) including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Therapy Appointments Officer

Band 3

Job overview

You will be working within a supportive clerical team managing referrals and bookings for Therapy outpatients.  This role will be working with the Therapy Appointments Booking team predominantly based at Fleet and Frimley Park Hospital.

Main duties of the job

  • As part of the Therapy Appointments Booking team, to provide a service for the booking patient Therapy appointments.
  • You will be mainly based at Fleet Community Hospital with the opportunity to work at Frimley Park Hospital and  Farnham Hospital in the future. 
  • To be responsible for managing clinicians’ diary templates
  • To make sure that all new patients are registered
  • To update patient information on systems, as and when required to ensure timely accurate data.
  • To book new and follow up appointments in line with the Trust Access policy, ensuring patient choice and optimal use of staff diaries/clinics.
  • To provide administrative support to the Dietetic outpatients service.
  • To provide administrative support to the Therapy outpatients service.
  • To act as first point of contact (via reception and telephone) for all patients, staff and visitors to the therapy department.
  • To liaise with other departments to ensure seamless patient care.
  • To maintain an exemplary standard of customer care and patient confidentiality.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 English / Maths or equivalent
  • Basic IT Knowledge
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of EPIC

Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Good organisational Skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Administrative skills
Desirable criteria
  • NHS admin processes experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Reception or relevant customer experience
  • Previous contact in a working environment with the general public
Desirable criteria
  • Working in a Team
  • Working in a large diverse public sector organisation e.g. NHS

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Maryanne Ede
Job title
Assistant Service Manager, Therapies
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07909530019
Additional information

Please only call between 9-5, Monday to Fridays.

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