Oncology Booking Clerk

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; Presencial; GBP 25.000 - 35.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

NHS pension

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Employee health and wellbeing services

Cycle to work scheme

Car lease salary sacrifice

Flexible working options

Descripción de la vacante

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking an Administrative/Reception Support post holder to facilitate patient pathways. The role involves booking appointments, processing clinic changes and referrals, and maintaining accurate data across PAS and related systems.

You will work flexibly across sites, delivering a professional, empathetic service to patients and relatives. You will liaise with clinical teams, manage waiting lists using PTLs and ensure records use RTT codes and SOPs.

Formación

• Good general education to include GCSE English Language and Maths (A-C grade) or equivalent/experience.
• IT skills qualifications; CLAIT or ECDL computer course.
• NVQ 3 in Business Administration or equivalent experience.

Responsabilidades

• Provide administrative and reception support to facilitate the patient pathway.
• Book outpatient and day case appointments across sites and process referrals.
• Maintain accurate data in PAS and other systems (ICE, CITO, Chemocare, PPM, PPM+).
• Liaise with clinicians and admin teams to record patient pathways correctly and timely.

Conocimientos

Customer service

Administrative support

Data entry

Educación

GCSE English Language

GCSE Mathematics

CLAIT or ECDL

NVQ 3 in Business Administration

Descripción del empleo

Taran Kaur - [e-mail] - Directorate Support Manager

Sian Hansen - [e-mail] - Patient Service Manager

About The Role

The post holder will provide administrative and reception service support to facilitate the patient pathway. The post holder will work flexibly across sites to provide a booking service, process clinic changes, process day case procedure administrative booking and coding, process of referrals as well as undertaking a range of general admin tasks.

The post holder will build and maintain close working relationships across the clinical administrative teams, using Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to ensure functions of the role are carried out correctly and within given timescales.

The post holder will ensure accurate data recording using the Patient Administration System (PAS), and other informational systems such as; ICE, CITO, Chemocare, PPM and PPM+ and via the use of Patient Tracking Lists (PTLs) book outpatient and day case events in accordance with clinical instruction and national/local waiting time target dates. Will support the Patient Access Team Leader to deliver a professional and efficient patient focused appointment booking service in accordance with Trust policies and standards. This requires a high level of customer care often communicating with distressed and anxious patients and relatives in a sensitive and empathetic manner.

Please note the interview date maybe changed.

• Liaise as appropriate with clinicians and clinical administration teams to ensure correct recording of patient pathways.
• Using Patient Target Lists (PTLs), proactively monitor waiting lists to ensure patients are appointed in line with clinical instruction/national/local waiting times, escalating where capacity does not allow.
• Allow early opportunity to elevate capacity issues in accordance with SOP
• Ensure appropriate administrative actions for activity outcomes in line with clinical instructions and SOPs; this includes accurate recording of Referral to Treatment (RTT) codes, clinical activity, treatment information and system discharges
• Provide a professional, sensitive, and courteous central call service for appointment and pathway enquiries, acting in line with policy and associated SOPs.
• Book, cancel and re-arrange scheduled appointments in line with clinical instructions and SOPs, liaising with other members of clinical administration teams such as clinical areas and the booking team where appropriate.
• The post holder will be responsible for proactively managing internal appointment requests via the Order Comms System (ICE), rolling on the referrals to the appropriate Clinician and understanding the requirements stated on the form by utilising the patient episode screen.

Qualifications

Essential person specification requirements

• Good general education to include CSE or GCSE in English Language and Maths (A-C grade) or equivalent/experience
• IT skills qualifications; CLAIT or ECDL computer course
• NVQ 3 in Business Administration or equivalent experience

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

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Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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