Patient Liaison Officer - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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This is an exciting opportunity to join The Fertility Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.


The post holder will be the first point of contact for patients and healthcare professionals within both NHS and Private capacities wishing to book / enquire about the services available.

The post holder will be able to provide patients with accurate prices for services they may wish to receive.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that patients both Private and NHS receive information regarding the services they wish to receive.

The post holder will be responsible for making appointments for patients in outpatients and sending the appropriate literature to the patient once the appointment has been booked.


The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that all details regarding pay mechanisms are accurately entered on to Compucare in a timely manner.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals,

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.


Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for -our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.


Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.


We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.


  • To be the first point of contact for patient enquiries and patient bookings for services provided at Chelsea & Westminster's Fertility Unit, responsible for delivering an efficient and faultless customer experience in handling both inbound and outbound customer enquiries.
  • To be specifically responsible for handling selfpay enquiries from the public and maximising the conversion of enquiries to outpatient appointments, tests and procedure packages
  • To be responsible for utilising the Hospital Booking Systems (Cerner and Compucare) in order to carry out a variety of functions, including:
  • Validating patient demographic details and updating as necessary
  • Making, changing or cancelling outpatient appointments
  • Updating computerised records of patient information in line with departmental and hospital policies and procedures.
  • Understanding all information contained on the system to assist patients and staff with queries on the telephone.
  • To deal with all enquiries in an efficient, polite and courteous manner providing a caring, compassionate, helpful service to patients, staff and the general public.
  • Responsible for booking patients into services, such as outpatient appointments, diagnostic appointments
  • To work closely with the commercial and pricing teams to ensure selfpay opportunities are maximised, services are wellstructured, meet patient needs and are competitively positioned and priced in the market
  • Ensure that all booking data is accurately entered on to Cerner and Compucare in a timely manner.
  • Ensure that all payment details are correctly logged onto the system at the time of booking.
  • To investigate queries in person and on telephone, dealing with patients queries, invoices and financial queries sensitively and with diplomacy. Liaising with other departments within the hospital and outside agencies where necessary e.g. insurance companies & ICB's
  • Support the wider team and patients with any funding queries
  • Submit ICB activity regular basis
  • Liaise with the OVS Department to ensure patients have the correct documentation required to access funding
  • To maintain an accurate and orderly filing system for all document
  • To maintain uptodate information and appropriate insight into competitor propositions, campaigns, pricing and activity in the selfpay market
  • To ensure complete confidentiality with respect to patient information in line with Trust's Confidentiality Policy & Information Governing Policy
  • Attend monthly unit staff meetings
  • Take payment information from patients who are paying with credit or debit cards, over the phone and update compucare in the appropriate manner
  • To use initiative, discretion an
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