Band 3 Senior Booking Clerk - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
3 weeks ago
Description
1 x Band 3 Senior Booking Clerk - Fixed term contract/Secondment for 9 months
We are looking for enthusiastic, hard-working staff members to work in our busy Central Booking Service (CBS) within the Children and Families Division.
The main duties for the post holder will be to provide support to the Central Booking Service and Operational Team Leader in order to provide a prompt and professional appointment booking service to parents/carers/service users.
The post holders will work as part of the CBS Team to ensure that patient appointments are booked with parents/carers over the telephone and also on the RIO system in line with the Central Booking Service processes.
The post holder will also ensure that there is prompt and accurate inputting of the clinical activity data onto the RIO system.
To work within a team in the Central Booking Service (CBS) providing a comprehensive, efficient and effective appointment booking service in order to meet the Trust's patient waiting times targets.
The Central Booking Service (CBS) is often the first contact a parent/carer will have with the Children & Families Division and may be regarded as the 'shop window' for the Community Paediatric, Inclusion Services, Health Visiting Services and Educational Health and Care (EHC).
The post holder will be required to provide excellent customer service to all service users ensuring that they are polite and courteous at all times.
The post holder will be responsible for the management of their own workload and will be expected to develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge of all services included within the Central Booking Service (CBS) which will enable them to deal with any service related queries.
This is a multi-skilled and multi-tasked role, and therefore the post holder will be expected to rotate with other staff members to cover all areas within the CBS on a regular basis.
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles.
We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.
We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities.We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Prepare and track clinical records for all patients booked within the CBS, ensuring that appropriate records such as referral letters are filed/stored appropriately in accordance with the Trust's Policies and Procedures.
Responsible for the management and booking of appointments on the Patient Administration System (RiO) system as well as the Choose & Book system
Responsible for calling the parents/carers of children who have not attended their appointments in order to ascertain the reason why and rebook a new appointment within the appropriate targeted timescales
Responsible for carrying out any clinic changes/cancellations on the RIO system in accordance with the CBS Standard Operating Procedures (SoP).
Booking appointments within the appropriate clinic rules and within appropriate timescales in accordance with the CBS SoP, this will include both making calls to parent/carers as well as receiving calls
Supporting the directorate on national targets e.g. 18 week Referral to Treatment (RTT), as well as Choose and Book (CaB
Ensure Patients are offered a choice of appointment in line with national guidance, wherever possible (see point 2 above). Establishing if parental carers require interpreting services and liaising with Medical Secretaries to make appropriate arrangements.
Liaising closely with and responding to the queries from all stakeholders both internally and externally relating to appointments and activity.
Ensuring all referral letters are date-stamped and registered on the patient administration system RIO, within 24 hours of re
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