Booking Clerk/admin Assistant in Physiological - Lincoln, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Lincoln, United Kingdom

5 hours ago

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The Physiological Sciences team at ULHT is looking for a skilled and dynamic administrator to work in their busy Lincoln and Pilgrim offices where no two days are the same.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication and administration skills with recent experience of working in a busy office environment.

They will require skills relevant to administrative work in the NHS, and will work to ensure that our clinicians and patients are always supported with expert admin help.

If you're looking for a rewarding administrative role where you can make a positive difference to people's experience of the NHS, then joining the Physiological Sciences team could be right for you.

Booking patient appointments following agreed procedures and protocols and ensuring patients are appropriately informed

Arranging, rearranging or cancelling appointments in line with patient requests whilst ensuring Local and National policy's are followed

Accurately recording appointment outcomes and other data relating to patients in a timely manner

Ensure patients receive all relevant information in a timely, accurate and effective way

Answering patient queries or escalating where required

Providing administrative support to the Physiological Sciences team

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

To prioritise own workload to ensure safe and effective running of the administrative needs of the department

Book patients in line with the urgency of their appointment in line with Local and National booking rules

Ensure patients receive the required notice of booking whilst ensuring maximum utilisation of available resource.

To contact patients, gaining acceptance of booking with patient or their representative.

To take appropriate action as required when answering patient queries, such as re-arranging appointment dates or escalating issues appropriately

Accurately maintain electronic and paper patient records

Maintain patient confidentiality at all times

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