Clinical Booking Officer, Vascular and Urology
Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Booking Coordinator to join our busy Vascular and Urology Department at St Peter's Hospital. This is a great opportunity to be part of a passionate and proactive team. The post includes general office duties, the booking of appointments and working closely alongside the Consultants and their teams to provide an excellent administrative service to our patients.
Clinics and patients will need to be carefully managed, administration skills are required, along with an excellent telephone manner. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and highly motivated team player, who shows flexibility and a careful attention to detail.
You will be required to use a number of systems including Surrey Safe Care (Cerner), Evolve and Dictate I.T. Previous experience of these systems is desirable, but not essential, as training will be provided.
Main duties of the job
The Central Booking Coordinator will provide:
1. A fast & efficient service which allows patients surgical procedures to be booked.
2. General office duties including phones and emails.
3. Using the patient administration system (Cerner).
4. Acting as front-line staff, providing excellent customer service to patients.
5. A comprehensive administrative service to the consultants and their medical team.
6. Organise their workload with the consultants and speciality teams, coordinating with other clinical office co-ordinators to ensure that an efficient service is provided.
Job responsibilities
1. The post holder will manage elective Booking for Consultants and Registrars working to clearly defined policies.
2. To be responsible for managing the patient waiting lists ensuring patients are dated within their waiting time breach dates.
3. To be responsible for organising operation dates with patients in strict order of the waiting list, taking into account case mix, instrument availability, age medication, surgeon etc.
4. To be responsible for managing the rebooking of patients if there are cancelled operations ensuring the relevant Trust policies are followed when re-booking patients (for example 28 day rule).
5. In addition to own workload the post holder will be expected to provide cover for colleagues in the office during annual leave, sick leave and during busy periods where there is an imbalance of work.
6. Be responsible for contacting patients using persuasive and negotiating skills in agreeing a date for admission in accordance with the Patient Choice Policy.
7. Be responsible for providing excellent communication and information for patients coming in for surgery. Responsible for generating correct letters to patients explaining details of correct feeding instructions, information regarding medication, transport and sending appropriate information leaflets.
8. Liaise with the pre-assessment booking team to ensure pre-assessment appointments for patients booked in a timely fashion, so as not to delay surgery. Acting upon the outcome of the pre-assessment if the patient is deemed unfit to proceed.
9. Be responsible for all correspondence with patients, all telephone and face to face enquiries from patients and relatives using tact and diplomacy; analyse and resolve patient problems.
10. The post holder must be prepared to telephone patients/consultants about contentious issues, such as operations cancelled, re-arranging lists due to beds not available or breach issues.
Person Specification
Experience
* Previous experience in an office environment.
* NHS experience.
Skills
* You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role.
* Able to use initiative and judgement in dealing properly with day to day issues and queries.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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