Outpatient Receptionist - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exiting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and customer focused receptionist at University Hospital Lewisham.

We are looking for highly motivated, organised, enthusiastic people to join our team, who strive to do the very best in providing an efficient, welcoming and quality service for our patients.

It is essential that you have the ability to think on your feet and work well under pressure. You will need to have previous experience in customer service, basic IT skills, but a willingness and aptitude to learn new systems

To provide a professional, customer centred receptionist service to patients attending the Outpatient areas at lewisham Hospital.

The role is based at Lewisham Hospital, but maybe required to be flexible in terms of location, which could be across all sites QE and community as operationally required.

You will be the first line of contact for patients attending clinical treatment and will be expected to conduct a professional, freindly service in line with the Trust values, maintaining the privacy and dignity of the patient at all times.

You will offer the patients a warm, friendly and helpful experience and inform the patient of the next step of their journey, including any issues that may delay that process.

You will need to have a calm attitude at all times, being aware and having an understanding of patients' worries and concerns coming to hospital.

You will be required to check-in & check-out patients arriving, and departing, completing accurate outcomes for those who require follow up appointments.

Ensuring the booking processes are followed accurately and in a timely manner, and all clinic outcome forms and reconciliations, and close of business processes are completed.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham.

We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years.

This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain.

Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention.

We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

We also hold in great value the Well being of our staff & have an extensive resource and active programme that reflects this

Post Title:
Receptionist

Grade:
Band 2

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Department:
Allied Clinical Services

Responsible to:
Outpatient Supervisor

Accountable to:
Outpatient Associate Service Manager

Job Summary:

To provide a professional, customer centred receptionist service to patients attending the Outpatient areas across all sites and all reception desks as operationally required.

Key Result Areas & Performance:

To provide an accurate and timely appointment booking service for patients arriving, departing or who require follow up appointments.

To be the first line of contact to the public face of the Trust for patients attending clinical treatment.

To promote the professionalism of the Trust and maintain the privacy and dignity of the patient at all times.

To offer the patients a warm, friendly and helpful welcome and inform the patient of the next step of their journey, including any issues that may delay that process.

To maintain a calm attitude at all times, being aware of patients' worries and concerns coming to hospital.

To ensure the booking processes are followed accurately and in a timely manner, and all clinic outcome forms and reconciliations, and close of business processes are completed.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

To arrive, depart, book follow up appointments and cancellations on the Trust's iCare system in a timely fashion

To book follow up appointments/review clinic entries for patients in the Outpatient areas, and ensure Clinic Outcome forms are completed at the end of every clinic.

Ensure the accurate entry and up-date of patient details and patient hospital episodes.

To ensure patient details are verified and accurately updated on iCare during the arrival and departure process.

To maintain patient confidentiality and be aware of data protection issues when entering all patient information on all Trust administration and