2 Week Wait Booking Officer

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

The Cancer administration team are responsible for ensuring national Cancer Waiting Time targets are met. This post provides an opportunity to join an enthusiastic Team within the Trust. These are key posts within Cancer Services and it is an exciting opportunity to be part of the ongoing development across our integrated organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide a robust administrative service to ensure patients referred to the Trust on a suspected cancer referral are booked an appointment within the national target of 14 days.
• Support a busy and fast paced team and demonstrate innovative, enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic approach.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
• Improving the experience of staff with disability.
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
• Making equalities mainstream.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations.