Elective & Diagnostic Booking Officer | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,008 - £25,553 PA incl of HCAS pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6176314/151-CB0121 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Elective and Diagnostic team to be based at Frimley Park Hospital. We are looking for an approachable and patient focused team player who is naturally suited to uphold our trust values in the workplace.
The role can be extremely busy so excellent organisational skills and the ability to multi-task is paramount. Outstanding communication skills, the ability to meet tight deadlines, a willingness to learn and work effectively as part of a team are a must.
If you enjoy an environment which involves liaising with patients, clinical staff and fellow team members whilst using your own initiative then this is the role for you.
The post holder will be responsible for booking appointments across all Trust sites. They will have an active role in the implementation, as well as ongoing monitoring of both new and existing appointments systems. The post holder will assist with meeting Trust targets. The post holder will be required to offer very high customer service skills for patients and both internal and external staff.
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.
• To ensure all phone calls are dealt with in a professional and timely manner adhering to the local targets set by the department and Trust
• To ensure all patients and visitors are treated with dignity, respect and empathy at all times
• To deal with patients in a polite and respectful manner complying with their requests where possible
• To support the Trust in delivering NHS targets
• To respond in a timely fashion to all administrative duties within the team
• To support the implementation of all new IT and patient administration systems
• Assist and be pro-active in all modernisation projects that concern the team and improve patient pathways
• To be multi-skilled in your working role and able to assist in all areas of the department as and when required
• To ensure strict confidentiality is maintained at all times in respect of correspondence received in the department and in accordance with Trust policy
• To ensure demographics and daytime contact numbers are obtained and checked on each individual call and updated on the patient administration system in accordance with Information Quality Assurance 2
• Follow all Trust and local policies and procedures at all times
• To deal with patient/staff complaints in a professional manner and try to resolve the issue before they become formal
• Generating patient letters from the computer system and updating records accordingly.
• Ensuring all records and requests are dealt promptly and accurately filed and maintained.
• To adhere to the Trust Access Policy when patients do not keep appointments or wish to delay appointments or treatment.
• To ensure patients are booked within their targets dates unless the patient chooses to wait for their procedure.
• Conduct regular reviews of their waiting lists on the Electronic Patient Record system.
• Regular review of PTL’s ensuring that patients are treated in accordance with Trust policy on waiting times.
• To inform appropriate personnel of any patients who have been cancelled on day (COD), ensuring correct COD outcome has been used. Ensure patients are re-admitted in accordance with the COD Policy.
• To ensure all phone calls are dealt with in a professional and timely manner adhering to the local targets set by the department and Trust
• To ensure all patients and visitors are treated with dignity, respect and empathy at all times
• To deal with patients in a polite and respectful manner complying with their requests where possible
• To support the Trust in delivering NHS targets
• To be multi-skilled in your working role and able to assist in all areas of the department as and when required
• To liaise with the team leader to provide a high-quality empathetic service and highlight any problems, working together as a customer focused team to solve issues that may arise
• To adhere to the Trust values of being committed to excellence, working together and facing the future
• To attend specialty meetings for your lead specialty as and when required.
• Follow all Trust and local policies and procedures within the Booking Centre at all times
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024
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