Admissions Scheduler

4 days ago


London, United Kingdom Acorn Recruitment Limited Full time

Acorn Recruitment is hiring an Admissions Scheduler based in the Harrow area on behalf of their renowned Trust client.

The successful Admissions Scheduler will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including a good telephone manner and the ability to demonstrate a polite and sympathetic manner to patients and staff.

Job summary:

- Lead responsibility for co-ordination of patient's elective admission.
- Lead responsibility for daily liaison with consultants and surgeons across sites to ensure elective inpatient theatre sessions are consistently booked with maximum utilisation, taking into consideration both clinical urgency and time on the waiting list.
- Be responsible for monitoring / auditing trust data received from the Performance / Information department and managing waiting lists to ensure no patients breach the national access, booking and choice targets, working in line with the Trusts' Patient Access Policy. To ensure synchrony between outpatient waiting list and inpatient waiting list to enable tracking of patient pathway target times. This will require extensive joint working with colleagues across the Trust.
- Lead responsibility to book pre-assessment and Covid swab appointments in a timely manner and adjust lists as required if any patients fail pre-assessment or swabs.
- Lead responsibility for ensuring special/individual equipment for theatres is ordered in a timely fashion to ensure no patient cancellations are received due to lack of equipment. Ensure correct transport is booked for appropriate patients.
- Liaise closely with Bed Management Teams, Wards, Pre-operative Assessment nurses, senior management and clinicians, PAS team and Theatre Co-ordinators and management

Essential skills required:

- Ability to type to a reasonable speed
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and work on own initiative.
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to work as an effective team member and without supervision as necessary
- Ability to prepare clear and accurate information
- Ability to work effectively in a stressful and pressurised environment.

Working hours and rate of pay:

- This role is a permanent, full-time position (37.5 hours per week)
- £9.50 per hour for the first 12 weeks, then after 12 weeks pay increases to rate of £10.40 per hour.

Acorn Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.



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