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Job summary

Main area
Paediactrics
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref
151-EK-149-C
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wexham Park & Frimley Park Cross site
Town
Frimley
Salary
£29,828 - £36,311 per annum incl HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2024 23:59

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Patient Pathway Co-ordinator

Band 5

Job overview

We are currently recruiting for an Patient Pathway Co-ordinator to assist the Service Manager and Operations Manager with achieving and sustaining key performance targets.

You will have a proven ability to exercise tact and diplomacy and it is preferable that you have recent previous experience within a comparable role.

Previous applicants need not apply, 

Main duties of the job

To provide practical support and advice in addressing day to day issues and problems within the directorate. 
To line manage members of the administration teams they work with, providing them with strong and clear leadership to ensure they are working effectively, efficiently and productively. 
To work in conjunction with the directorate bookings and administrative teams.
To provide a comprehensive service to the Consultants and their team, ensuring Trust standards are adhered to in relation to all documentation and data entry concerning patient appointments and treatment.

 


To lead on the development of competencies, protocols and procedures to ensure a highly efficient and smooth running services, ensuring appropriate documentation, standard setting, monitoring and communication systems are in place. 

Responsible for monitoring, managing and reporting on leave in line with Trust systems and procedures. 


To performance manage staff where appropriate. 

Undertake and lead on recruitment and selection of new staff in line with Trust systems and policy. 

To be responsible for ensuring that staff comply with all Trust policies and procedures 

To work with the team to help them develop an understanding of the Directorate administrative function and roles within the team which will enable cross cover as required.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors 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 are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First degree or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in a customer care environment
  • Track record of successful working within a team with different roles
  • Two years’ experience of working in an NHS acute hospital setting
Desirable criteria
  • Conversant with hospital information systems

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to manage a team
  • Ability to negotiate at all levels and work in partnership with all relevant stakeholders
  • Excellent communication skills – both verbal, presentation and written
  • Good interpersonal, oral and written skills including chairing meetings and writing reports
  • Ability to prioritise and manage workload efficiently with minimal supervision
Desirable criteria
  • Highly developed analytical skills and competency in interpreting complex data
  • Knowledge of medical terminology

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of data protection and issues around patient confidentiality
  • Knowledge of NHS patient administration systems
  • Knowledge of NHS Access targets

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Charlotte Kitteringham
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07827 881353
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