Job summary
- Main area
- Vascular
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 323-AC8806-SK
- Employer
- Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Peter's Hospital
- Town
- Chertsey
- Salary
- £26,405 - £28,976 pa inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/07/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Booking Officer, Vascular and Urology
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Booking Coordinator to join our busy Vascular and Urology Department at St Peter's Hospital. This is a newly created post to be part of a passionate and proactive team. The post includes general office duties, the booking of appointments and working closely alongside the Consultants and their teams to provide an excellent administrative service to our patients.
Clinics and patients will need to be carefully managed, administration skills are required, along with an excellent telephone manner. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and highly motivated team player, who shows flexibility and a careful attention to detail.
You will be required to use a number of systems including Surrey Safe Care (Cerner), Evolve and Dictate I.T. Previous experience of these systems is desirable, but not essential, as training will be provided.
Main duties of the job
The Central Booking Coordinator will provide:
· A fast & efficient service which allows patients surgical procedures to be booked.
· General office duties including phones and emails.
· Using the patient administration system (Cerner)
· Acting as front-line staff, providing excellent customer service to patients.
· A comprehensive administrative service to the consultants and their medical team
· Organise their workload with the consultants and speciality teams, coordinating with other clinical office co-ordinators to ensure that an efficient service provided.
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.
We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- On-site Nurseries
- On-site staff cafes
- On-site parking
- Support in career development
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. The post holder will manage elective Booking for Consultants and Registrars working to clearly defined policies.
2. To be responsible for managing the patient waiting lists ensuring patients are dated within their waiting time breach dates.
3. To be responsible for organising operation dates with patients in strict order of the waiting list, taking into account case mi, instrument availability, age medication, surgeon etc.
4. To be responsible for managing the rebooking of patients if there are cancelled operations ensuring the relevant Trust policies are followed when re-booking patients (for example28 day rule).
5. In addition to own workload the post holder will be expected to provide cover for colleagues in the office during annual leave, sick leave and during busy periods where there is an imbalance of work.
6. Be responsible for contacting patients using persuasive and negotiating skills in agreeing a date for admission in accordance with the Patient Choice Policy.
7. Be responsible for providing excellent communication and information for patients coming in for surgery. Responsible for generating correct letters to patients explaining details of correct feeding instructions, information regarding medication, transport and sending appropriate information leaflets.
8. Liaise with the pre-assessment booking team to ensure pre-assessment appointments for patients booked in a timely fashion, so as not to delay surgery. Acting upon the outcome of the pre-assessment if patient deemed unfit to proceed.
9. Be responsible for all correspondence with patients, all telephone and face to face enquiries from patients and relatives using tact and diplomacy; analyse and resolve patient problems.
10. The post holder must be prepared to telephone patients/consultants about contentious issues, such as operations cancelled, re-arranging lists due to beds not available or breach issues.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in an office environment
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role
Desirable criteria
- Able to use initiative and judgement in dealing properly with day to day issues and queries.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Chris Tolland
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07395357557
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