Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking an Ophthalmology Booking Clerk for a fixed-term position in Newport, offering two 37.5-hour posts over a six-month period. The role involves booking outpatient clinics and monitoring activity while providing a quality Partial Booking Service. The successful candidate will ensure appointments are scheduled correctly and efficiently in alignment with Health Board policies. Proficiency in Welsh is desirable, but applications from both Welsh and English speakers are encouraged.
Candidates should have clerical experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to prioritize workloads effectively. The Health Board promotes a supportive work environment, providing various benefits, training, and opportunities for career growth, all while encouraging a healthy work-life balance. The organisation values flexibility and aims for high-quality healthcare delivery, emphasizing innovative service models and excellent patient care.
Candidates should have clerical experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to prioritize workloads effectively. The Health Board promotes a supportive work environment, providing various benefits, training, and opportunities for career growth, all while encouraging a healthy work-life balance. The organisation values flexibility and aims for high-quality healthcare delivery, emphasizing innovative service models and excellent patient care.
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
2 x 37.5 hour posts
This post is fixed term for 6 months to meet the needs of the service. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Booking clerk, responsible to the Referral and Booking Centre Team Leader for booking outpatient clinics and monitoring activity.
To provide a quality Partial Booking Service to the Referral and Booking Centre and customers. Ensuring all appointments are booked correctly and efficiently in a timely manner in accordance with Health Board’s Policies and Procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide a quality Partial Booking Service to the Referral and Booking Centre and customers. Ensuring all appointments are booked correctly and efficiently in a timely manner in accordance with Health Board’s Policies and Procedures.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Education
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
2 x 37.5 hour posts
This post is fixed term for 6 months to meet the needs of the service. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Booking clerk, responsible to the Referral and Booking Centre Team Leader for booking outpatient clinics and monitoring activity.
To provide a quality Partial Booking Service to the Referral and Booking Centre and customers. Ensuring all appointments are booked correctly and efficiently in a timely manner in accordance with Health Board’s Policies and Procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide a quality Partial Booking Service to the Referral and Booking Centre and customers. Ensuring all appointments are booked correctly and efficiently in a timely manner in accordance with Health Board’s Policies and Procedures.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Education
Essential criteria
- Education & Training
Essential criteria
- Previous clerical experience or similar
Essential criteria
- Able to follow instructions
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills Polite and professional telephone manner Ability to prioritise workload and achieve targets within given deadlines Ability to establish good working relationships with managers, clinicians, clerical staff at all levels Ability to work flexibly either as part of a team or using ones own initiative
Essential criteria
- Ability to work and problem solve under pressure whilst achieving targets Willingness to work under direction but also a self-starter Demonstrate a commitment to achieving high quality standards of work Flexible to the needs of the service, energetic and determined. Accurate/Methodical in all aspects of work
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