Job summary
Employer heading
Fail Safe Officer
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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Provide a comprehensive and quality administration service to the designated department of ophthalmology. The main focus of the role is to provide clinic and patient management for allocated clinics as appropriate. The role should provide support to management and multidisciplinary teams, including Consultants in managing this cohort of patients and clinics.
1.1 Provide failsafe support for allocated clinics. Ensuring clinic numbers are maintained at a level that is safe for both patients and staff, including cancelling and rebooking patients where necessary.
1.2 To act as a point of contact for all patients under this pathway and provide excellent customer service at all times.
1.3 Act as a point of escalation to senior and direct line management if any concerns within clinic capacity or patients.
1.4 Ensuring patient pathway run smoothly within the specified area and is not delayed or lost to follow up.
Main duties of the job
Provide failsafe support for allocated clinics. Ensuring clinic numbers are maintained at a level that is safe for both patients and staff, including cancelling and rebooking patients where necessary.
To act as a point of contact for all patients under this pathway and provide excellent customer service at all times.
Ensuring patient pathway run smoothly within the specified area and is not delayed or lost to follow up.
Provide updates and reports for patients within this area where necessary for both internal and external stakeholders.
Deal with queries from GPs, Doctors, wards, and other departments over the phone and in person in a calm and polite manner and in accordance with the clinical division and Trust policy.
Provide basic information to patients / visitors / carers, such as providing directions to other areas of the hospital / daily waiting times.
Provide basic clinical information to patients / carers who are undergoing procedures within the unit.
Provide empathetic verbal support for patients / carers via face-to-face contact and over the phone.
Use hospital information systems to track medical notes, process patients, book appointments and carry out any other tasks associated with the system.
Booking of patients within the unit using the hospital information system and send out all booking details and corresponding material.
Order any stock items as necessary for the unit.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Ophthalmology terminology, understanding of pathway
Experience
Essential criteria
- Administrative experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in an NHS institution.
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Clear & effective communication skills. Organisational skills/ability to learn.
- Competent use of IT systems – Excel, Word, & database input
Desirable criteria
- Service sector work (preferably hospital). Cerner Medisoft
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charmaine Robertson
- Job title
- Speciality Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07943090615
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