Outpatients Receptionist inStoke-On-Trent inStoke-On-Trent PUBLISHED WED 30 OCT 2024

To welcome patients, carers, relatives, visitors and other health care staff to the Outpatient department in a polite, courteous and professional manner. To ensure you are patient focused at all times and always greeting patients with a smile. To ensure that the patient journey from receipt of referral letter to appointment in clinic and any subsequent follow-up appointment is patient focussed, efficient and effective. Incorporating use of all the Trusts systems including: Choose and Book, Savience, Iportal, Filefast and any other systems to achieve a smooth pathway for the patient alongside accurate and safe Data Quality collection.

Most members of staff in the Trust have a responsibility for supporting the delivery of Planned Care Services, and the achievement of Cancer and RTT targets, whether in a supportive role, or in terms of providing hand-on care. As part of the administrative support structure, the post-holder is responsible for adhering to the Trust's Access Policy and Standard Operating Procedures.

• Undertake reception duties dealing with telephone and face-to-face enquiries from patients, wards and departments, referring to a supervisor when necessary. The post holder may be required to notify patients of any delay on clinic.
• Deal with all appointment queries communicating factual routine information to patients, relatives (with consent) and external and internal bodies.
• Communicates and encourages the use of the self-check-in system Savience, escalating any problems to the Systems Administrator.
• Responsible for completing outcome forms and actioning follow up appointments where necessary.
• Gain knowledge of Outpatient procedures.
• Ensure that appointments are appropriately booked on the Choose and Book, Careflow/CRIS systems as appropriate.
• Deals with enquiries where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Maintain the Trust systems, E referral, Savience, iPortal and Filefast.
• Ensure the health records are complete for clinic and will provide any information to capture patient pathway and coding information.
• Answer telephone queries from patients and relatives and will ensure all patient demographics are correct on any contact with patients.
• Resolves issues relating to appointments, clinics, directions or any general enquiries.
• Record information provided by the patient when rearranging or cancelling an appointment or booking into a clinic.

About us

For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.