Service Advisor | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a candidate for the Community Urgent Response Team. Responsibilities include providing referrals, coordinating services, and updating patient records. Ideal candidates should possess administration skills, have some patient contact experience, and be enthusiastic team players. Flexible working arrangements are encouraged to support work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Candidates should have had patient contact and be confident using electronic patient records.
• Desirable to have experience with telephone triage.
• Motivated and enthusiastic individuals are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Provide an effective point of referral and call handling service for community services.
• Make supported decisions on appropriate care pathways.
• Carry out back-office functions related to timely processing of referrals.

Skills

Sound administration skills

Experience with telephone triage

Teamwork

Tools

Electronic patient records

Job description

The Community Urgent Response Team (previously known as Single Point of Access) service is continuing to develop and change in order to meet the needs of the local population. The service supports clinical triage, ensuring service users are signposted to most appropriate service to meet their needs.

The hours are varied and include a mixture of shift patterns to support 24-hour working seven days a week.

The post would suit candidates who have previously had patient contact and who have sound administration skills and are confident utilising electronic patient records. Experience with telephone triage would be desirable but not essential.

The ideal candidate would enjoy working in a team and be motivated and enthusiastic.

The main responsibilities are:
• To provide an effective single point of referral and call handling service for the community services provided by NLaG
• To make supported decisions on the most appropriate care pathway and direct service users/professionals into the appropriate service area ensuring equality of access across a range of services
• To carry out back-office functions as required relating to the timely processing of referrals and to ensure patient records are accurately and quickly updated
• To provide coordination of visits and monitoring of the referrals
• To work closely with and support the Community Urgent Response nurses and Wider Community teams
• To take referrals for community services.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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This advert closes on Sunday 10 Aug 2025