Job vacancy: Elective and Diagnostic Booking Officer - Pacing, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley

Job summary

Main area: Medicine
Grade: Band 3
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term 12 month contract)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday - Friday 8-4 or 9-5)
Job ref: 151-KMU283

Employer: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Frimley Park Hospital
Town: Frimley
Salary: £26,240 - £27,928 per annum incl HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/08/2025 23:59

Elective and Diagnostic Booking Officer - Pacing

Band 3

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

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.

We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Shaun Middleton
Job title: Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07721600536
Additional information: Please email me to arrange a discussion about this post or if you have any questions about the team, department or the application process.

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Elective and Diagnostic Booking Officer - Pacing

Band 3

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Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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Applicant requirements

Documents to download

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