Care Navigator/Receptionist

NHS; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Barrack Lane Medical Centre is seeking a care navigator for a full-time position in Ipswich. This role is vital as it involves direct patient interactions, requiring excellent communication and a caring approach. Ideal candidates will be team players able to maintain professionalism under pressure.

Qualifications

• Customer service/patient experience essential.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Ability to handle fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for patients.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Cover colleagues during holidays and sickness as needed.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Caring approach

Attention to detail

Customer service experience

Ability to work under pressure

Flexible work approach

Job description

Barrack Lane Medical Centre has an opportunity for a care navigator to join our friendly, supportive and professional team on a full-time basis, 37.5 hours per week. Although you will be employed by the Barrack Lane and Ivry Street PCN you will be based at Barrack Lane.

The care navigator is a very important role within the surgery as they are the first person a patient speaks to or sees when they contact the surgery.

General practice is a challenging environment that requires a calm and caring approach with the ability to work under pressure. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated team player who has customer service/patient experience and offers excellent communication skills.

Main duties of the job

• Excellent communication skills and a caring approach.
• A clear and polite telephone manner.
• The ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast paced environment, working well under pressure.
• The need to maintain confidentiality all times.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• The ability to work flexibly to cover colleagues holidays and occasional sickness.

About us

Barrack Lane is a busy practice in the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk. We have a practice population of over 20,000 patients. The practice is based on two sites, the main surgery in the centre of the town, and a branch surgery at Stoke Park.

Barrack Lane is part of a PCN (Primary Care Network) with Ivry Street Medical Centre, in Ipswich, and the two practices cover a population of 32,000 patients. The PCN allows the practices to share resources and offer an enhanced service to our patients. The PCN employs care co-ordinators and social prescribers to work with patients, especially our vulnerable patients, to help them to access the best care.

Job responsibilities

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see theattached job specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Excellent communication skills and a caring approach.
• A clear and polite telephone manner.
• The ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast paced environment, working well under pressure.
• The need to maintain confidentiality all times.
• A high level of attention to detail.
• The ability to work flexibly to cover colleagues holidays and occasional sickness.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.