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Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the medicine directorate for an Elective and Diagnostic booking Officer to be based at Wexham Park Hospital.

This is a 12 month fixed term appointment.

We are looking for an approachable and patient focused team player who is naturally suited to uphold our trust values in the workplace.

The role can be extremely busy so excellent organisational skills and the ability to multi-task is paramount. Outstanding communication skills, the ability to meet tight deadlines, a willingness to learn and work effectively as part of a team are a must.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for booking appointments across all Trust sites.

They will have an active role in the implementation, as well as ongoing monitoring of both new and existing appointments systems.

The post holder will assist with meeting Trust targets.

The post holder will be required to offer very high customer service skills for patients and both internal and external staff.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GCSE English and Maths pass or equivalent
• ECDL or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• NVQ Level 2 Administration or equivalent practical knowledge
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a hospital or busy office environment.
• Significant experience in difficult patient situations.
• Some customer care experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Call centre experience
• NHS experience
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills both verbal and in writing
• Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy when completing tasks
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work using own initiative
• Excellent customer service skills and evidence of dealing with telephones and meeting targets
• Ability to act on own initiative, assessing problems and queries and understanding which can be resolved and which can be passed on
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Good knowledge of NHS targets
• Knowledge of clinical and surgical procedures
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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