We are seeking to appoint a Patient Pathway Coordinatorto join our Ophthalmology Administration team at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
We are seeking to appoint a proactive, motivated individual who enjoys working in a busy environment within our friendly team in Oxford. The post holder will provide an efficient and effective clinical administration service to the department, consultants, nurses and wider clinical team. They will also attend to patients, colleagues and referrers to the service, promptly and courteously at all times and be a worthy front-line representative of our high quality service.
To attend to patients, colleagues and referrers to the service, both in person and on the telephone, promptly and courteously at all times and be a worthy front-line representative of the high quality service.
To provide an efficient and effective clinical administration service to the department, consultants and designated medical staff. Be first point of contact for the consultants and clinical teams. Coordinate the workflows through the admin team to ensure consistency across the service.
To work within an administrative team dedicated to quality and effective patient care and maintaining Trust policy on patient confidentiality.
To work according to the administrative processes in place to support the delivery of Trust and national targets, especially with regards to the 18-week pathway.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
- Designated point of contact for the consultants and clinic teams.
- To deal proactively and efficiently with telephone enquiries from patients, carers, GPs and other service users professionally, ensuring, where possible, that the caller’s needs are met or they are transferred to the most appropriate person.
- Ensure Electronic Patient Records (EPR) and other patient databases are up to date and accurate, with relevant correspondence attached and clinic outcomes recorded.
- Coordinate MDT meetings; including being responsible for taking & distributing minutes and ensuring all actions have been completed.
- To manage all correspondence, and to ensure that urgent matters are dealt with properly. Taking appropriate action and ensuring that any paperwork is scanned promptly onto the patients’ electronic notes and forwarded to the appropriate person electronically so they can respond accordingly. Deal with outgoing mail with due care and attention to patient confidentiality.
- To regularly check future clinics, ensuring cover is agreed with the medical team, and under or over-booking issues are proactively dealt with.
- To ensure annual review appointments are scheduled for each patient and the service maintains effective clinic management throughout the year. Highlighting to Admin Team Leaders and/or the clinical team when clinics need to be cancelled or closed, ensuring patients are informed of changes and new appointments provided.
- Maintain databases, extract data from EPR and run reports for sharing with the wider team, as and when required
This advert closes on Tuesday 26 Nov 2024
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