Private Patient Officer | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JR |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7219236/432-HR243-25 |
Summary
We are an ambitious trust with a clear vision, to provide the communities we serve with excellent healthcare and build a better future for the people of East Suffolk and North Essex.
To help us do this, we work closely with our local partners and stakeholders to deliver more joined-up services and care for our patient population.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced administrator with good communication, time management and organisational skills to be working alongside the Ophthalmology Clinical team managing private patient services.
If you have the vision and commitment to take forward this role and share our desire to put patients at the heart of everything we do then we would like to hear from you.
• To support and undertake administrative duties required to deliver the agreed processes for Private Patient services, ensuring all relevant processes are accurate and up to date.
• To support and undertake the identification and reporting areas of potential regulation and financial risk and any required monitoring
• To support in ensuring relevant ESNEFT staff, including clinicians, are aware of the relevant procedures and controls in place with respect to the management and governance of Private Patients and of any relevant third party agreements (e.g. with an insurance company) in operation by the Trust.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 29 May 2025