Administrator Vascular

**Assistant Patient Pathways Administrator (Vascular)**

**Can you bring your skills and experience to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?**

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. They became a Foundation Trust on 1 October 2015 and believe that this will enable them to work more effectively inpartnership with their patients and their local community to provide high quality healthcare.

They provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation) medical education, training, and research.

Would you like to be part of a Trust that value, recognise and celebrate staff members? Who work as a team to provide a high-level service? If yes, Oxford University Hospitals is the place for you.

**_COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment,we do encourage our bank members who are not clinically exempt from vaccination to get vaccinated._**

We have a temporary opportunity available for an **Assistant Patient Pathway Administrator.** This role is based at**John Radcliffe, OX3 9DU** within the **Vascular** department.

The hours for this role are **Monday - Friday, 7.5 hours per day, start and finish times to be discussed, 37.5 hours per week.**

This is a**Band 3**role**,**paying**£11.14 per hour.**
**Duties to include**:

- As directed by the Patient Pathway Administrators, assist in any administrational duties that may be required to ensure a full administration service is provided within the various services of the Directorate. This may include providing basic cover forthe patient pathway administrators during periods of sickness, annual leave or workload increases.
- To collect health records as required from the Medical Records Libraries or elsewhere in the hospital and to assist with the preparation and pulling of clinic notes.
- To respond to queries relating to health records, either by telephone or in person and to ensure all health records are tracked using EPR thereby maintaining accurate location records.
- To assist with the filing of patient correspondence.
- To monitor stationary stocks within the department.

To open and date stamp the departmental post and distribute appropriately, ensuring urgent referrals are brought to the attention of the Outpatient Booking teams or Patient Pathway Administrators.
- To assist the Patient Pathway Administrators with the use of Dictate IT as and when required, ensuring that the Trust 7-day turnaround is met.
- To communicate effectively using good verbal and written skills and to deal with all enquiries in a sympathetic and professional manner using tact and diplomacy where appropriate.
- To operate computer systems which are in use, or which may be introduced into the service as required
- To comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act, Access to Health Records and legislation relating to confidential data.
- To undertake further training as required.
- Be able to prioritise workload and work with mínimal supervision.
- To adhere to correct manual handling procedures and policies at all times.
- To book follow up appointments accurately ensuring that the correct Referral to treatment (RTT) status is recorded in accordance with Trust guidelines.
- To ensure patients are checked in and out of clinic and future appointments are made on the day of attendance wherever possible and to ensure activity is captured from outcome forms using the HIM chart coding function in EPR.

**Skills required**:

- Knowledge of EPR, ScanIT and DictateIT would be extremely useful but full training will be given
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent keyboarding skills
- Attention to detail
- NHS experience desirable
- Good team player
- Motivated and able to work under pressure
- Previous experience within a similar role

**In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits**:

- Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week
- First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
- Dedicated consultants
- Flexible working options
- Free DBS and free training
- Build holiday allowance
- Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days
- Stakeholder pension scheme

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don't have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 126,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is thenreinvested back into the NHS.

Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.

**We look forward to hearing from you soon.**

**Placement ref: 52077