Patient Services Coordinator
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £12.48 yr awr |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £12.48 an hour |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Alfreton, DE55 5PS |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | A5184-24-0005 |
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Ensure an effective and efficient reception service is provided to patients and any other visitors to the practice. Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery. Deal with all general enquiries, explain procedures and make new and follow-up urgent and routine appointments with all members of the Primary Healthcare Team. Communicate clearly and effectively with other team members, patients and carers. Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly. Explain practice arrangements and formal requirements to new patients and those seeking temporary cover, and ensure procedures are completed. Register new patients to the practice onto the clinical system promptly and accurately having knowledge of the practice area. Process patients changes of address. Book transport and ambulances for patients as appropriate. Act as chaperone for patients as necessary Enter requests for home visits onto the clinical system, ensuring to carefully record all relevant details and referring to the on-call doctor where necessary. Open and organise the distribution of the post Action repeat prescription requests and ensure that they are ready for collection by the patient within 48 hours. Liaise with the pharmacists in the issuing of prescriptions Advise patients of relevant charges for private (non General Medical Services) services, accept payment and issue receipts for same. Enter patient information on to the computer as required. Retrieve and re-file records as required, ensuring strict alphabetical order is adhered to. Ensure correspondence, reports, results etc. are filed promptly and in the correct records, ensuring that all recent correspondence is available when patients are seen. Ensure records are kept in good repair, with all necessary information on the outside cover clearly visible. Work flexibly with colleagues to cover the opening hours of the surgery, including opening and closing the surgery by arrangement. Open up premises at the start of the day when first to arrive, de-activate alarm and make all necessary preparations to receive patients. Organise and set up clinical rooms ready for consulting. When last to leave at the end of the day, clear rooms after surgeries, ensure that the building is totally secured, internal lights are off and the alarm activated. Make and serve refreshments, ensure the kitchen is kept clean and tidy and air and tidy the waiting room in turn with other staff. Be able to cover all reception positions as necessary, ensuring reception is covered in times of sickness and annual leave. Train and support new staff to ensure that the required level of proficiency is attained. Undertake any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the partners or the practice manager.