Wye Valley NHS Trust

Therapy Services Administrator - Bromyard

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Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic administrator to join Therapy Services team at Bromyard hospital. The successful applicants will provide a customer focused service for all patients and visitors attending the Therapy Services Department.

You will provide efficient and effective administrative support to the Therapy Services teams including dealing with phone queries, inputting clinical data on to patient systems and typing of clinical letters.

Main duties of the job

For a complete job description please see document attached to the advert, the below list is an overview of the main duties and is not exhaustive:

  • Manage the booking of new and follow up patients.
  • Manage clinic rescheduling and cancellations.
  • To be aware and highlight issues with clinic capacity and lead times.
  • Telephone and face-to-face patient management and customer service.
  • Meeting and greeting patients and visitors.
  • To maintain organised filing system including computerised and paper filing systems.
  • To maintain archiving of patient and personal files.
  • General administrative tasks.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Details

Date posted

15 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-6125141

Job locations

Bromyard Community Hospital

Bromyard

HR7 4QN


Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • Customer services/Business Administration qualification at Level 3 or
  • Computing/IT qualification at Level 3

Skills. Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Professional telephone manner
  • Proficient in the use of IT systems
  • Basic Negotiation skills
  • Knowledge of administrative processes

Experience

Essential

  • Clerical experience including filing, data, retrieval, typing and photocopying
  • Experience of dealing with the public
  • Management of waiting lists

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Team Player
  • Ability to work autonomously within scope of role
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Ability to prioritise workload
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Flexible
  • Good timekeeping skills
  • Professional approach to work and colleagues
  • Reliable
  • Ability to deal calmly with occasional patients expressing frustration

Desirable

  • Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • Customer services/Business Administration qualification at Level 3 or
  • Computing/IT qualification at Level 3

Skills. Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Professional telephone manner
  • Proficient in the use of IT systems
  • Basic Negotiation skills
  • Knowledge of administrative processes

Experience

Essential

  • Clerical experience including filing, data, retrieval, typing and photocopying
  • Experience of dealing with the public
  • Management of waiting lists

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Team Player
  • Ability to work autonomously within scope of role
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Ability to prioritise workload
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Flexible
  • Good timekeeping skills
  • Professional approach to work and colleagues
  • Reliable
  • Ability to deal calmly with occasional patients expressing frustration

Desirable

  • Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Bromyard Community Hospital

Bromyard

HR7 4QN


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Bromyard Community Hospital

Bromyard

HR7 4QN


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

MSK Physiotherapy Service Manager

Kevin Bowers

kevin.bowers@nhs.net

01432347644

Details

Date posted

15 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-6125141

Job locations

Bromyard Community Hospital

Bromyard

HR7 4QN


Supporting documents

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