Podiatry Rota Assistant - Derby, United Kingdom - Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

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Derby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Patient Care This post impacts on the ability for the Podiatry Service to deliver interventions and treatments to patients in a safe, timely manner by ensuring appropriate staff are rostered to clinical shifts.

Ensure that satellite and main clinical sites have an appropriate number of appointments available on a weekly/monthly basis to meet service demand.

To have an excellent knowledge of waiting times for routine appointments and move capacity in agreement with team lead to keep waiting times equitable across the locality.

To make autonomous decisions on the rotation of Community Podiatry Team in a fair and equitable manner to meet requirements of Service Level Agreements.

To deal with the initial impact of any staff absence, liaise with Podiatrist/Team Lead, arrange cover, liaise with patients to cancel appointments, delegate remainder of task to appropriate member of the clinic admin team.

Understanding of the requirement to always maintain absolute patient confidentiality in accordance with Trust policy and the legal framework such as General Data Protection Regulations.

Contact with patients when changing or amending patient appointments on the day cancellations of early appointments in the event of short notice absence.