Endoscopy Booking Support

Job summary

The role is a 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

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. We serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.

The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us.We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours.We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working.You can select your preferences upon application.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke and County Hospitals

Newcastle Road

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6QG

Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke and County Hospitals

Newcastle Road

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6QG

Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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