Call Centre Assistant - 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

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
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.

Your role would be to receive telephone calls and queries from patients, colleagues and stakeholders.

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.

PLEASE NOTE:
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post

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.

Working hours will be on a rota basis.

Therefore you must be flexible to be able to cover these hours in the future if successful in the role.

The post holder will be one of a team of call centre assistants who will to provide a first class one-stop shop appointments service for elective care

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.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

PLEASE NOTE:
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this post

Our people are our greatest asset.

When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients.

Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

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.

Main

Responsibilities:

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 e-Referrals 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 p