Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Patient Administrator, Cardiac unit

The closing date is 20 August 2025

Job summary

An exiting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Administrator to join our busy Cardiac Unit at St Peter's Hospital. As a patient administrator you are responsible for ensuring all patients and visitors to the Cardiac Unit are met with a welcoming and professional attitude and all administrative and secretarial functions are delivered to a high standard.

For further information, please contact Jaelkelni Teixeira - jaelkelni.teixeira@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

  • Providing a welcoming and professional first point of contact for all patients, co-ordinating their arrival through to departure.
  • Dealing with telephone enquires in a prompt and effective manner, ensuring the provision of information and prioritising of queries as appropriate.
  • Demonstrate a reassuring manner when dealing with the patients and their relatives.
  • Ensuring that clinically validated referrals are booked appropriately in accordance with clinical priority.
  • Delivering efficient patient scheduling, leading to optimal use of laboratory capacity including short notice patient allocation.
  • Responsible for the safe storage, collation, tracking and organisation of medical notes.
  • Managing the patient waiting lists against national waiting times and local agreed key performance indicators (KPI's) by using LUNA and liaising with the Patient Pathway Team and escalate as required.
  • Responsible for processing all Cardiac Unit letters and ensuring activity is recorded e.g. Pre-Assessment and procedures.
  • Contribute in the development of action plans where performance areas for improvement are identified.
  • Comply with all mandatory training and keep abreast of all as professional and personal learning and development.
  • Maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
  • Reporting all incidents and complaints in line with Trust policy.
  • Participating in Governance activities, audits and team meetings.
  • Complying with ISO standard / GDPR in respect of information and security management.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

  • Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
  • On-site Nurseries
  • On-site staff cafes
  • On-site parking
  • Support in career development
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org

Details

Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year pa inc. HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

323-AC0466-JN

Job locations

Chertsey House, St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey, Surrey

KT16 0PZ


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Flexibility in the working patterns to fulfil clinical requirements and be willing to adjust these at short notice to accommodate unexpected changes.
  • Using various systems such as Surrey Safe Care (Cerner), Evolve (Electronic medical records) to help manage the 18 week patient pathway. Ensure changes notified by patients are added accurately and immediately, in accordance with required Trust standards of work.
  • Working as part of a team, assisting with the training of new and temporary staff, providing support and guidance as appropriate.
  • Any other duties appropriate to the role and grade to support the Cardiology department and organisation within the broad scope of the job.
  • Ability to work unsupervised.
  • Support the senior patient administrator in the accurate entry of information for management reports.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Flexibility in the working patterns to fulfil clinical requirements and be willing to adjust these at short notice to accommodate unexpected changes.
  • Using various systems such as Surrey Safe Care (Cerner), Evolve (Electronic medical records) to help manage the 18 week patient pathway. Ensure changes notified by patients are added accurately and immediately, in accordance with required Trust standards of work.
  • Working as part of a team, assisting with the training of new and temporary staff, providing support and guidance as appropriate.
  • Any other duties appropriate to the role and grade to support the Cardiology department and organisation within the broad scope of the job.
  • Ability to work unsupervised.
  • Support the senior patient administrator in the accurate entry of information for management reports.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • English GCSE Grade C or equivalent

Desirable

  • NVQ 3 in Business Administration; or equivalent administrative
  • AMSPAR medical terminology

Experience

Essential

  • Previous administration experience of working in a busy office and dealing with conflicting demands
  • Experience in using LUNA and patient validation
  • NHS Experience

Desirable

  • Minute Taking
  • Experience in using Surrey Safe Care

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding GDPR and Informational Governance
  • Good range of administrative procedures
  • Highly competent user of MS Office - including Excel
  • Understanding of RTT Pathways

Desirable

  • Knowledge of the process for C2Cs and MDS referrals
  • Dictate IT knowledge

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to deal with sensitive information with tact, diplomacy and understanding.
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality at all times
  • Able to use initiative and judgement in dealing properly with day to day issues and queries
  • Good written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

  • Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service, and the Trust.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • English GCSE Grade C or equivalent

Desirable

  • NVQ 3 in Business Administration; or equivalent administrative
  • AMSPAR medical terminology

Experience

Essential

  • Previous administration experience of working in a busy office and dealing with conflicting demands
  • Experience in using LUNA and patient validation
  • NHS Experience

Desirable

  • Minute Taking
  • Experience in using Surrey Safe Care

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding GDPR and Informational Governance
  • Good range of administrative procedures
  • Highly competent user of MS Office - including Excel
  • Understanding of RTT Pathways

Desirable

  • Knowledge of the process for C2Cs and MDS referrals
  • Dictate IT knowledge

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to deal with sensitive information with tact, diplomacy and understanding.
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality at all times
  • Able to use initiative and judgement in dealing properly with day to day issues and queries
  • Good written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

  • Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service, and the Trust.

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

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chertsey House, St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey, Surrey

KT16 0PZ


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chertsey House, St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey, Surrey

KT16 0PZ


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Cardiac Unit Manager

Jaelkelni Teixeira

jaelkelni.teixeira@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,860 to £31,671 a year pa inc. HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

323-AC0466-JN

Job locations

Chertsey House, St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Road

Chertsey, Surrey

KT16 0PZ


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