Job summary
You will be part of a team at Rouen Road booking outpatient new appointments both via the telephone and electronic communications. Processing cancellations and updating all hospital systems to contain identical information. Dealing with internal and external parties.
You will be required to take part in a weekly staff meeting to discuss workloads, changes in guidelines and updates.
Part time: 30 hours per week
Interview date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Working within a large open planned office at Rouen Road, working within a multi- service booking HUB where you will have your individual worklist to book within Trust Guidelines. Training and support will be provided by your team leads.
Part of your role will be cancelling rebooking patients due to medical staff holidays and sickness.
A calm, sensitive and methodical approach to booking patients especially those on our suspected cancer pathways. Using booking lists to ensure your patients are booked within target.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Dealing with both telephone and post appointment requests and queries for any new follow-up and follow-up appointments.
- To assist the teams in maintaining out-patient procedures for the Trust, to include compliance with choice, partial booking and full booking on PAS.
- To support the booking of new follow-up and follow-up outpatient appointments, ensuring bookings are accurate and within their 18 week pathways as well as their appointment target date.
- Support the teams in ensuring full utilisation of clinics is achieved by communicating within the team, and between the team and the services. Ensure patients are contacted and any changes to their appointments are discussed and agreed with the patient.
Dealing with both telephone and post appointment requests and queries for any new and follow-up appointments.
To assist the teams in maintaining out-patient procedures for the Trust, to include compliance with choice, partial booking, full booking, PAS and eRS.
To support the booking of new and follow-up outpatient appointments, ensuring bookings are accurate and within their 18 week pathways.
Support the teams in ensuring full utilisation of clinics is achieved by communicating within the team, and between the team and the services. Ensure patients are contacted and any changes to their appointments are discussed and agreed with the patient.
To assist the teams in adding patients to the outpatient waiting lists. Ensure patients are called in chronological and priority order.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer). The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Dealing with both telephone and post appointment requests and queries for any new follow-up and follow-up appointments.
- To assist the teams in maintaining out-patient procedures for the Trust, to include compliance with choice, partial booking and full booking on PAS.
- To support the booking of new follow-up and follow-up outpatient appointments, ensuring bookings are accurate and within their 18 week pathways as well as their appointment target date.
- Support the teams in ensuring full utilisation of clinics is achieved by communicating within the team, and between the team and the services. Ensure patients are contacted and any changes to their appointments are discussed and agreed with the patient.
Dealing with both telephone and post appointment requests and queries for any new and follow-up appointments.
To assist the teams in maintaining out-patient procedures for the Trust, to include compliance with choice, partial booking, full booking, PAS and eRS.
To support the booking of new and follow-up outpatient appointments, ensuring bookings are accurate and within their 18 week pathways.
Support the teams in ensuring full utilisation of clinics is achieved by communicating within the team, and between the team and the services. Ensure patients are contacted and any changes to their appointments are discussed and agreed with the patient.
To assist the teams in adding patients to the outpatient waiting lists. Ensure patients are called in chronological and priority order.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 4159 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer). The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Team Player
- Initiative
Skills
Essential
- IT skills in Microsoft Outlook & Word
- Effective communication skills - both verbal and written
- Customer care skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Team Player
- Initiative
Skills
Essential
- IT skills in Microsoft Outlook & Word
- Effective communication skills - both verbal and written
- Customer care skills
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
