Job Summary
The role is a newly created hybrid role that incorporates a mixture of reception and booking officer roles, which creates flexibility within the Endoscopy Department to support the booking and reception team.
The role involves welcoming patients, carers, relatives, visitors and other health care staff to the Endoscopy Department in a polite, courteous and professional manner, ensuring patient focus at all times and always greeting patients with a smile. The role also involves ensuring that the patient journey from receipt of referral letter to appointment in clinic and any subsequent follow-up appointment is patient focussed, efficient and effective. Incorporating use of all the Trusts systems including: Choose and Book, iPortal, Careflow, Solus and any other systems to achieve a smooth pathway for the patient alongside accurate and safe Data Quality collection.
Main duties of the job
The role involves welcoming patients, carers, relatives, visitors and other health care staff to the Endoscopy Department in a polite, courteous and professional manner, ensuring patient focus at all times and always greeting patients with a smile. The role also involves ensuring that the patient journey from receipt of referral letter to appointment in clinic and any subsequent follow-up appointment is patient focussed, efficient and effective. Incorporating use of all the Trusts systems including: Choose and Book, iPortal, Careflow, Solus and any other systems to achieve a smooth pathway for the patient alongside accurate and safe Data Quality collection.
To undertake clerical duties; this includes providing and receiving routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills, communicating tactfully with patients and staff about appointments or any other queries deemed necessary. The role also involves communication with patients and their relatives who are telephoning to update their personal details and to change and/or cancel appointments.
About Us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Date posted: 03 January 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £24,071 to £25,674 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 205-6853591-A
Job locations: Royal Stoke Hospital, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6QG
Job Description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person Specification
Essential
* Formal clerical or administrative qualification
Desirable
* NVQ Business studies or equivalent
Experience
Essential
* Experience in a customer service environment
* Previous NHS experience
Desirable
* Knowledge of Careflow, iPortal & Outlook
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of Data Quality
* Ability to work in a high pressured environment and meet deadlines.
Desirable
* Knowledge of waiting lists and managing them
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name: University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Address: Royal Stoke Hospital, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6QG
Employer's website: https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk
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