Switchboard Operator

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; Vor Ort; GBP 21.000 - 25.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Switchboard Operator to join our busy switchboard team in Bury St Edmunds. The role focuses on answering high volumes of calls, prioritising emergency lines, and coordinating on-call rotas and transport for patients and staff.

You'll handle emergency and external calls, book contract taxis and issue radios and loan devices, supporting site operations and ensuring rapid responses to critical situations across the Trust.

Aufgaben

• Emergency calls made to switchboard (Maternity Emergencies, Paediatric Emergencies, Cardiac Arrests, Stroke Alerts, Stroke Thrombolysis, Massive Blood Loss, Traumas, and RPIs) and coordinating on-call teams.
• External Emergency calls to Fire Brigade and Police.
• On-call rotas for all departments within the trust; update Doctors Board and issue daily on-call lists.
• Booking of contract taxis for patient transport, medication transport, pathology sample transfers, staff transfers, and discharge-related taxi needs (including the psycho liaison team).
• Issuing Loan Alertive devices.
• Assisting Site Manager by issuing Radios to on-call teams during switchboard/bleep system issues.

Jobbeschreibung

The job role within the switchboard office is varied, our priority is answering the telephone calls, we receive on average 28,500 a month, the calls come into the switchboard via different lines and are answered in the following order, The Emergency Calls, The Emergency Communication Calls, The GP Calls, the External Calls, The Internal Calls and each operator has their own internal extension.

The high priority call to answer is the Emergency line, we receive on average 500 Emergency Calls each month. On many occasions these emergency’s calls are not straight forward and we have to use our initiative to get a good outcome.

The shift patterns that someone could expect for a role in switchboard are

• 06.00-14.00
• 14.00-22.00
• 22.00-06.00

Some Of The Responsibilities You Will Have Are

• Emergency calls that are made to the switchboard, these are usually via a 2222 call, these include Maternity Emergencies, Paediatric Emergencies, Cardiac Arrests, Stroke Alerts, Stroke Thrombolysis, Massive Blood Loss, Traumas and RPI’s. These groups are tested on a daily basis to ensure all emergency bleeps are working correctly, following an emergency call we are responsible for getting the on-call teams to the right place, procedures vary slightly in hours and out of hours.
• External Emergency calls to the Fire Brigade and Police.
• On- call Rotas for all departments within the trust, we check these rotas on a daily basis and transfer this information onto our Doctors Board and issue a daily on call list to various individuals across the trust.
• The booking of contract taxis, these can be to take a patient home, to take patients medication or belongings home, arrange the transfer of pathology samples to other hospitals, to transfer staff who are working at other trusts or collecting staff who have gone on a transfer with a patient to another hospital, we also book the contract taxis for the psychic liaison team for patients who are being discharged from A & E.
• Issuing of Loan Alertive devices
• Assisting Site Manager for issuing Radios to the on- call teams in the event of switchboard or bleep system failure.

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Blakenee Green Job title: Switchboard/ Security Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01284713602