Patient Pathway Coordinator - Dermatology

VerseOne Group; Basildon; Presencial; GBP 26.000 - 31.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator for Dermatology at Basildon Hospital. This maternity cover role involves coordinating administrative and secretarial tasks, liaising with GPs, patients and visitors, and ensuring efficient patient pathways.

The role requires strong communication and organisational skills, with experience in healthcare administration and Microsoft Office. The post is fixed term until December 2027.

Formación

• Good standard of education including English and Maths.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate, monitor and initiate changes within administrative processes along patient RTT and cancer pathways to ensure timely and efficient patient journeys.
• Liaise with GP practices and external teams to ensure seamless patient flow and manage consultant workflow.
• Navigate patients through their care pathway using hospital IT systems to access medical records and histology results.

Conocimientos

English & Maths

Educación

English and Maths

Herramientas

Excel

Outlook

Word

Descripción del empleo

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Patient Pathway Coordinator - Dermatology

The closing date is 15 November 2026

We are looking for a organised self-starter to provide efficient administration and secretarial duties within our Dermatology Department based at Basildon Hospital as Maternity Cover on a fixed term basis until December 2027.

You’ll also provide administration support and liaise with departments across the Trust, general practitioners, patients, relatives and visitors, resolving queries as appropriate.

So if you are sociable, dynamic and pride yourself on your communication skills, we’d like to hear from you today.

Main duties of the job

Your role will involve co-ordinating, monitoring and initiating appropriate changes within administrative processes along the patient’s RTT and/or Cancer pathway to ensure the patient’s journey is managed efficiently, smooth and in accordance with targets and agreed timescales and utilising computerised tracking systems to locate case notes and investigation results.

You will be liaising with teams outside of the speciality e.g. GP’s where appropriate to ensure a seamless patient journey and monitoring work lists for Choose and Book to monitor Consultant workflow and escalat(e) to Operational Managers if and where necessary.

As a Patient Pathway Co-Ordinator you will navigate patients through their care pathway, from point of referral to treatment, using hospital IT systems to find information on the patient pathway, including medical records and histology reporting systems etc

Your general administrate duties will include courteously and efficiently receive telephone enquiries from patients, carers and external agencies in relation to hospital appointments, receiving and processing incoming correspondence, paper and electronic, ensuring it reaches the appropriate place with the required deadlines and maintain an accurate and up to date filing system (manual and electronic), ensuring accuracy of patient case notes.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Job responsibilities

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires.

Skills

• Good standard of education including English and Maths

Experience

• Administrative experience within a healthcare setting
• Previous experience in managing patient pathways
• Experience in Microsoft Packages - including excel, outlook and word

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.

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£28,392 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)