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Job overview

The Outpatient Patient Service Centre role is responsible for providing an efficient and streamlined administrative service to patients and customers of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust. This role involves supporting the Supervisor and lead a team compromising of Senior Administrator and a team of Assistant Administrators in the operational delivery and clinical governance of Outpatient Services. The role is for our busy Patient Service Centre and the candidate will be working in a fast-paced environment and will involve training of new staff and supporting them through an intense training programme to assist with continuous development of our improvement and quality standards. To help support the team to maintain accurate staff records and ensure mandatory training is up to date. The Assistant Administrators you will be responsible for will carry out many tasks from registering the GP referrals, Booking the first appointment with the patient speaking to patients with a positive, friendly, helpful attitude, making the first point of contact an excellent patient experience ready for when they attend for their Hospital Outpatients appointment.

Main duties of the job

Along with the Senior Administrator you will manage the day to day activities of the staff and work within Patient Service Centre ensuring a comprehensive administrative service to all service users. This includes organisation of own and other team members work. Duties may include contact with front line service users, members of the public and other external stakeholders. This post will include organisation and maintenance of effective systems (paper based and electronic) and typing and preparation of correspondence for team members.

We have several teams within Patient Service Centre which consist of Clinic maintenance team which deal with all clinic changes this could be cancelling a clinic, changing a slot from face to face to telephone, setting up new clinics. Two week wait team who deal with urgent appointments for patients to be seen within 2 weeks. Pre-reg team who deal with the referrals as they come in from the GP’s and register them on the system. The 18-week teams book patients first appointments within an 18-week period. 

Working for our organisation

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five
hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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