Admissions Officer

**Working hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Who Our Opportunity is for**:

- Who you are looking for
- Any specific requirements - The post holder will be able to remain calm under pressure and work to demanding deadlines, as well as having the ability to work on own initiative with mínimal supervision.
- Any other relevant points
- Any relevant skills and experience
- Past administration and clerical experience essential, NHS experience desirable.

Previous applicants need not apply

The post-holder will be part of the Planned Care Admissions Team and will manage the day to day responsibilities of sending for waiting list patients whilst maximising Theatre session utilisation, arranging pre-admission appointments and dealing with patients who cancel or fail to attend in line with the Trust’s policy.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.