Patient Services Advisor

1 week ago

Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Northfield Medical Centre Full time

JOB DESCRIPTIONJOB TITLE:

PATIENT SERVICES ADVISOR



REPORTS TO:
PATIENT SERVICES TEAM LEADER / MANAGEMENT TEAM

Approximately 23 hours per week over 3 days : Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Job summary:


Assist, actively signpost and navigate patients in accessing the appropriate service or healthcare professional in a courteous, efficient and effective way.


To be responsible for undertaking a wide range of reception and administrative duties and the provision of general support to the multidisciplinary team.


Job responsibilities:

  • Ensure an effective and efficient reception service is provided to patients and any other visitors to the practice
  • Deal with all general enquiries, explain procedures and make new and followup appointments.
  • Using your own judgment and communication skills, ensure that patients with no prior appointment but who need urgent consultation are seen in a logical and nondisruptive manner.
  • Explain practice arrangements and formal requirements to new patients and those seeking temporary cover, and ensure procedures are completed.
  • Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery.
  • Process requests for home visits, ensuring carefully recording of all relevant details and referring to duty doctor where necessary.
  • Process repeat prescription requests and ensure that they are ready for collection by the patient within 48 hours, either electronically or manually.
  • Ensure that urgent blood results and tasks are received and passed to the Duty Doctor.
  • Advise patients of relevant charges for private (nonGeneral Medical Services) services, accept payment and issue receipts for same.
  • Enter patient information into computerised medical record as required.
  • Ensure that all new patients are registered onto the computer system promptly and accurately.
  • Ensure changes of address are actioned accordingly.
  • Deal with electronic tasks from clinicians in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Chaperone upon request following appropriate training, adhering to practice protocol and guidelines.
  • Undertake any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the partners, management team or patient services team leader.
  • Premises:
  • Open up premises at the start of the day when first to arrive and make all necessary preparations to receive patients.
  • When last to leave at the end of the day, ensure that the building is totally secured & internal lights are all switched off.

Confidentiality:

  • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
  • In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the postholder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
  • Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & safety policy and the practice infection control policy and published procedures

This will include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
  • Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
  • Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role
  • Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
  • Reporting potential risks identified
  • Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
  • Respecting the privac

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