Receptionist - Headington, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
5 days ago
Description
Receptionist - Band 2-3 Link Grade
We are pleased to be able to offer this exciting opportunity to play a vital role in planning and delivering this service in the future.
Check patients in and out of their appointment, booking follow up appointment as require ensuring that the RTT status is correct.
For patients attending Eye Casualty you will need to register their referral on the system before creating the appointment, these appointments will also require checking and out and out.
Other duties will including making and receiving phones calls and scanning paper work
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.- To greet patients at reception in a helpful, polite and efficient manner.
- Check all demographics details for patients on arrival, updating these appropriately whilst adhering to the Trust policies for data protection and patient confidentiality.
- Register patient's attendance on EPR in realtime.
- Deal with enquiries in a sympathetic and professional manner using tact and diplomacy when dealing with anxious patients and relatives.
- To book follow up appointments accurately ensuring that the correct referral to treatment (RTT) status is recorded in accordance with Trust guidelines.
- To ensure that special requests for additional support in clinics such as interpreters or sign language services are dealt with timeously.
- To ensure that all reception clinic lists are available, up to date and accurate, recording all late bookings, cancellations and DNA's appropriately.
- To ensure patients are checked in and out of clinic and future appointments are made on the day of attendance wherever possible and to ensure outpatient procedure activity is captured from outcome forms using the HIM chart coding function in EPR.
- To ensure that all patients' notes are present and prepared the day before the clinics, highlighting any notes that are missing to relevant line manager for each clinic.
- To arrange return transport for patients attending appointments at the request of the senior nurse or Arriva and Oxford Ambulance.
- To make sure the relevant reception area within the Directorate are kept tidy and in good repair, with any defects being reported to the relevant line manager.
- To be able to prioritise your workload and work with mínimal supervision.
- To undertake further training as and when required
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