Senior Complaints Lead - Epsom, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
2 weeks ago
Description
Band 6
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Main area
- Complaints management
Grade
- Band 6
Contract
- Permanent
Hours
- Full time hours per week
Job ref
FM-NP-C-Z-B
Site
- Gateway Building, Epsom
Town
- Epsom
Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 pa incl HCAS (Outer)
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Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 22/08/2023 23:59 As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19._
We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork.
This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our valuesJob overview
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The Complaints Team operates in a very busy working environment, and is a key part of the Trust's wider Patient Experience Team. The views of people who use our services are important to us. We want to know when things have gone well, but also when we don't get things right, so we can learn from our mistakes.
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The Trust currently receives around 600 formal complaints a year, which in line with the NHS Complaints Procedure, are managed by the Complaints Team in partnership with staff in the Divisions and Community, so that all complainants receive a timely, meaningful and compassionate response.
The Senior Complaints officer is a key part of the Patient Experience management team, with responsibility for supporting the Complaints manager to ensure effective operational delivery of the Complaints Service and supporting the Trust's proactive approach to listening and responding to patient and carer feedback.
Working with staff across the organisation as well as a range of external partners and stakeholders, the post-holder is responsible for ensuring the Trust meets all statutory and Trust requirements in relation to Complaints, and that a professional, reliable and accessible service is provided consistently across the organization and community services partnerships.
Main duties of the job
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Senior Complaints Lead Band 6
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The Senior Complaints officer will work closely with the Complaints Manager and Deputy Head of Patient Experience to identify opportunities to learn from and implement change and improvements in response to patient and carer feedback.
The post is suitable for someone with extensive experience in customer relations and concerns/complaint resolution, ideally in the NHS or similar setting. An experienced team manager, they must be able to work effectively with people at all professional levels, both internally and externally, and be confident in providing leadership across the Trust.
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The post of Senior Complaints officer is suitable for someone with extensive experience in customer relations and concerns/complaint resolution, ideally in the NHS or similar setting.
A keen and capable team player, the post-holder must also be able to work autonomously, providing a high quality service to our patients and service users.
Including a caseload of their own, a proportion of the work will focus on facilitating the receipt of information from the relevant staff, reviewing this to ensure it addresses all of the concerns raised in a complaint, and drafting an appropriate response for senior sign off and approval.
Interview Date:
TBC
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Working for our organisation
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey.
In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life.
We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas.Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
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Experience
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Essential criteria
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- Previous experience of managing teams in a patient or customer relations role.
- A full understanding of the NHS complaints procedure
- Significant experience of working in a complaints environment
- Proven ability in proactively solving complex problems.
- Ability to analyse data and feedback, identifyin
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