Patient Care Advisor Team Leader

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; In loco; GBP 26.000 - 34.000; Tempo pieno

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Patient Care Advisor Team Leader to supervise a contact centre team providing patient booking and administrative services. The role focuses on leading staff to deliver accurate outpatient bookings and to act as the first point of contact for patients.

You will support a change process within the outpatient booking team and ensure service standards are met.

Competenze

• Experience supervising a team and coordinating workloads.
• Experience in change management and supporting a change process.

Mansioni

• Lead and train a team of patient care advisors to support patients through the booking pathway.
• Ensure referrals, outpatient appointments, and procedures are booked in line with patient pathways and NHS targets.
• Monitor data quality and provide validation and training to the team.

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a patient care advisor team leader to join the contact centre team who provide patient booking and administrative services and act as the first point of contact to capture all interactions between Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust and patients.

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and conscientious individual to supervise a team and support them to deliver an efficient and accurate booking service for our patients and services. This post requires experience in managing change. This role will be required to support a change process within the outpatient booking team.

This is a unique and interesting administrative role in which you will lead and train team members to ensure patient referrals, outpatient appointments and surgery is booked in accordance with the trust's patient pathways and standards.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.", The post holders main duties include managing, monitoring and training a team of specialist patient care advisors: enabling them to support patients through choice pathway to book outpatient services or inpatient procedures; discussing with them choice options within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust; ensuring patients are seen within NHS waiting time targets in an informed and courteous manner. Supporting data quality through validation and training.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.