Call Center Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Description
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Outpatient Call Centre Assistant based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
This is a busy Appointment Contact Centre based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
To be successful in the role you will need the following attributes and experience:
You must be customer focused
You must have a positive attitude and work well within a team
You must be reliable and have excellent time keeping
You must enjoy speaking to people on the telephone
You must have a very clear and professional telephone manner
You must be IT literate, be able to use a keyboard and worked with computer packages
You must be energetic and hard working
On occasions, you must be able to handle irate callers, be able to calm them down and help to resolve their issues.
- What skills do you already have that are transferrable to this role.
- Give details of where you have worked with members of the general public together with an example of when you have demonstrated good customer care and relation skills
Experience required of working in a Contact Centre, switchboard, customer service environment or the NHS would be an advantage. In return there will be in-house training and on-the-job training with career development opportunities.
The successful applicants will be proactive team members who can demonstrate efficient organisational and prioritisation skills in order to contribute to the smooth effective operation of the outpatient team.
Therefore you must be flexible to be able to cover these hours in the future if successful in the role.
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are a committed multi-professional much valued hospital and community services to residents in South East London.
The Trust has built a good reputation as a place to enjoy job satisfaction and develop professional skills and experience.
Our people value the opportunity to work in a supportive culture and, we ensure our team are well rewarded for their contribution.
By joining us now you can play a role in shaping our organisation that continues to put patient and client care first.
Whatever the challenges ahead, we are prepared to face them as one team.Post Title:
Call Centre Assistant
Grade:
Band 3
Department:
Allied Clinical Services
Responsible to:
Outpatient Manager
Accountable to:
Outpatient Service Manager
Main Purpose of Post
As such the post holder will be part of a team that incorporates booking outpatient appointments and dealing with patient queries relating to outpatient appointments and future appointments on the hospital (PAS) and the e-Referrals systems across Lewisham and Greenwich Trust.
When booking appointments a wide range of communication skills will be used in order to provide a patient centred booking service.
The post holder will be sensitive to the needs of each individual, responding differently to a wide range of needs.
MainResponsibilities:
- Answering all telephone calls into the Outpatient Call Centre in a courteous, professional and efficient manner.
- Dealing with Outpatient appointment queries, cancel and reschedule outpatient appointments, update patient demographic details, clarifying receipt of referral to improve Trust data quality.
- Receive internal and external telephone queries with regard to all outpatient matters and referring to appropriate departments as necessary.
- Input and extract patient information via the Trust (PAS) system or eReferrals system.
- Ensure all patient details are correctly and accurately entered on to the Trust (PAS) systems, and amend where necessary.
- To deal with all queries from patients and staff in a polite, professional and courteous manner.
- Have full knowledge of all consultant names, their teams and specialties.
- To record any messages clearly and accurately and deliver them promptly.
- To act in such a manner as to maintain and protect patient confidentiality at all times.
- To proactively deal with potential situations of conflict, to diffuse and prevent patient complaints.
- To ensure the telephones within the Outpatient Call Centre are answered professionally and all enquiries are dealt with efficiently.
- To speak to our patients and callers with respect and courtesy, be positive and helpful in providing excellent service and assistance.
- To escalate any capacity issues when booking outpatient appointments to the relevant service manager within the 18 week RTT pathway.
- To photocopy or scan documents for the department as required.
- To participate in call reviews and call monitoring to achieve set targets.
- To participate in the orientation and training of new and temporary staff as required.
The post holder must ensure that personal information for patients, an
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