InPatient Booking Officer - General Surgery
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 November 2025 |
| Location: | Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9 6RF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9389-25-0980 |
Summary
Provides an administrative service including filing, word processing, photocopying, opening/sending out mail. Actioning incoming mail as appropriate within the waiting list office. Working on own initiative, but referring to line manager where necessary. First point of contact for telephone enquiries from staff, patients/relatives/patients legal representatives, General Practitioners, Consultants and external organisations. Deals with calls in a constructive and sympathetic manner, referring to the appropriate person where necessary. Types and distributes operating lists to relevant personnel, ie theatres, Consultants, wards, anaesthetic department, radiology etc. Works in close liaison with Medical secretaries, Business Manager, Admin Manager, co-ordinators/practitioners, Consultants, pre-assessment department, specialist nurses, statistical waiting list office, and wards regarding patients on the inpatient waiting list. Ensure that all patients are treated within RTT targets, (to be aware of Trust and National policies regarding cancer waiting times and waiting list targets / initiatives). Ensure all urgent cases are booked with in the time frame specified by the Consultant Ensure all routine patients are booked in chronological order Ensure all diagnostic / planned / surveillance patients treated by their admit by date. Assist in the compilation of theatre operating lists, through consultation with Consultant Surgeons/waiting list co-ordinators and pre-assessment department. Liaise with internal and external agencies with regards to special needs/equipment for patients being admitted to hospital e.g. booking of interpreters, high dependency beds, x-ray equipment etc. Arrange pre-assessment appointments and send out appropriate information to patients in a timely manner. Add patients to the appropriate Consultant inpatient waiting lists, adding a referral if necessary, and liaise with the statistical waiting list office regarding removal of patients from the inpatient waiting list and other information as required by statistical waiting list office. Assist the Admin Manager in updating the inpatient waiting lists weekly, ensuring diagnostic/urgent procedures are brought to the attention of the waiting list co-ordinators. Ensure correct documentation/information is sent out to patients for their admissions to hospital, and that the hospital patient administration system is updated accordingly. Ensure correct data is entered on the hospital patient administration system (EPR) and the department database daily. Be aware of Trust and National policies regarding cancer waiting times and waiting list targets/initiatives. The post holder may be required to demonstrate duties to new starters and support them with training. Such duties at a comparable level of responsibility as may be allocated to the post. The post holder will be expected to undertake any further training as necessary and be responsible for own continued self-development.