Band 2 Patient Pathway Assistant North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED
SUN 22 DEC 2024
Opportunity for Professional Development, The role provides allocated study time within working hours, allowing the employee to gain qualifications and enhance their skills.
Impactful Work, As a Patient Pathway Assistant, you play a crucial role in ensuring smooth patient experiences in the maternity and gynaecology departments, directly contributing to patient care.
Team Collaboration, You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, fostering teamwork and camaraderie among healthcare professionals, while also being part of a wider administrative support network.
Job Security, Being part of the NHS offers a level of job security, stability, and public service commitment, which is particularly valuable in the current job market.
Flexible Working Hours, The role includes working flexible hours to meet the needs of the service, allowing for better work-life balance.
Cross-Training Opportunities, The position may involve training other staff members, enhancing leadership and mentoring skills while contributing to team development.
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a motivated and dynamic Patient Pathway Assistant to join the Women's Admin department. This role focuses on providing high-quality administrative support for the Maternity and Gynaecology Department, which involves booking clinic appointments, managing patient communications, coordinating with clinical teams, and ensuring smooth patient experiences throughout their diagnostic journey. The assistant will also contribute to monitoring performance targets related to patient pathways and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.
The position offers opportunities for professional development, with allocated study time for qualifications. Candidates should be prepared for flexible working hours and may need to cover other team responsibilities as required. This role will support North Middlesex University Hospital's mission to deliver care to a diverse and extensive community, with plans for future integration with the Royal Free London NHS Trust to enhance healthcare services further.
The position offers opportunities for professional development, with allocated study time for qualifications. Candidates should be prepared for flexible working hours and may need to cover other team responsibilities as required. This role will support North Middlesex University Hospital's mission to deliver care to a diverse and extensive community, with plans for future integration with the Royal Free London NHS Trust to enhance healthcare services further.
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the role of Patient Pathway Assistant within the Women's Admin department to give a high level of patient service.
You will be supported to learn and develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours you need to perform in the job role. You will also have study time allocated within your working hours to gain your qualification.
The Role of the administrative assistant is to provide a comprehensive and effective administrative service to support the smooth and efficient running of the Maternity and Gynaecology Department. This includes booking clinic appointments, chasing results, working with Admission Team and liaising with the clinical team to ensure a smooth and safe patient experience. Supporting the MDT team in managing the diagnostic patients and liaising with the coordinators to ensure patients are booked and managed within a timely manner.
The post holder will be responsible for communicating with patients and their relatives regarding their appointments and admissions details both verbally and in writing.
To assist in the validation and performance management of PTL monitoring, ensuring booking, data recording, clinic and elective admissions outcomes of the patient pathways are proactively managed in order to achieve 18 week targets.
Provide cross cover within the team as and when required.
Work flexible hours as required by the needs of the service.
Ensure full compliance with the Trusts waiting list policy in line with the national 18-week target.
Follow Trust escalation policy if patients require cancellation.
Ensure all paperwork is filed in the patients notes as per Trust policy.
Train Other Staff Members As Required In The Role.
Proactively manage workload and amend practices, within remit, to improve the processes and patient experience.
To work as part of a team alongside other clerical staff within the department and to be part of a wider multidisciplinary team delivering a high quality service to other staff and patients. This includes working with identified external contacts and stakeholders.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of Londons busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbliy4KF Role of the Patient Pathway Assistant is to provide a comprehensive and effective administrative service to support the smooth and efficient running of the Antenatal & Gynaecology department. This includes booking diagnostic clinics, chasing results, working with Admission Team and liaising with the clinical team to ensure a smooth and safe patient experience. Supporting the MDT team in managing the diagnostic patients and liaising with the coordinators to ensure patients are booked and managed within a timely manner. Booking Antenatal referrals, sitting Front line and patient facing roles.
After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.
This advert closes on Friday 3 Jan 2025
You will be supported to learn and develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours you need to perform in the job role. You will also have study time allocated within your working hours to gain your qualification.
The Role of the administrative assistant is to provide a comprehensive and effective administrative service to support the smooth and efficient running of the Maternity and Gynaecology Department. This includes booking clinic appointments, chasing results, working with Admission Team and liaising with the clinical team to ensure a smooth and safe patient experience. Supporting the MDT team in managing the diagnostic patients and liaising with the coordinators to ensure patients are booked and managed within a timely manner.
The post holder will be responsible for communicating with patients and their relatives regarding their appointments and admissions details both verbally and in writing.
To assist in the validation and performance management of PTL monitoring, ensuring booking, data recording, clinic and elective admissions outcomes of the patient pathways are proactively managed in order to achieve 18 week targets.
Provide cross cover within the team as and when required.
Work flexible hours as required by the needs of the service.
Ensure full compliance with the Trusts waiting list policy in line with the national 18-week target.
Follow Trust escalation policy if patients require cancellation.
Ensure all paperwork is filed in the patients notes as per Trust policy.
Train Other Staff Members As Required In The Role.
Proactively manage workload and amend practices, within remit, to improve the processes and patient experience.
To work as part of a team alongside other clerical staff within the department and to be part of a wider multidisciplinary team delivering a high quality service to other staff and patients. This includes working with identified external contacts and stakeholders.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of Londons busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbliy4KF Role of the Patient Pathway Assistant is to provide a comprehensive and effective administrative service to support the smooth and efficient running of the Antenatal & Gynaecology department. This includes booking diagnostic clinics, chasing results, working with Admission Team and liaising with the clinical team to ensure a smooth and safe patient experience. Supporting the MDT team in managing the diagnostic patients and liaising with the coordinators to ensure patients are booked and managed within a timely manner. Booking Antenatal referrals, sitting Front line and patient facing roles.
After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.
This advert closes on Friday 3 Jan 2025
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