Band 3 Cardiology Inpatient Booking Coordinator

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inpatient Booking Co-ordinator to join the Cardiology Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who relishes a challenge and is keen to use their own initiative.

This post is full time (37.5 hours) and a 12 month fixed-term position.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:

- To schedule patients into the cath labs using the criteria set out by the Trust and the clinical speciality, identifying capacity shortfalls.
- Processing patient appointment / procedure attendance using a variety of hospital information systems.
- Create documents / spreadsheets / reports as required using IT Systems.
- Use Trust systems to input electronic data as required.
- To exercise initiative and judgement based on acquired knowledge and experience when dealing with enquiries.
- Receiving and dealing with telephone enquiries as appropriate.
- To assist colleagues as directed by the Line Manager in times of pressure of work.
- Notify patients of new or changes to appointments or procedure dates.
- Accurately record telephone messages and other enquiries and refer as appropriate.
- Managing inpatient waiting lists using a variety of systems.
- Maintain confidentiality at all time in accordance with Caldicott Guidelines and Data Protection Act.
- Liaise with staff, patients, service users and external agencies.
- To provide a point of contact for service users.
- Provide patients with non-clinical advice and information on a range of issues including appointment queries.
- Liaise with medical and nursing staff and other multi-disciplinary teams regarding patient appointments/ procedures/ pathways.
- Organise interpreters if required to meet the needs of the patient.
- Manage at short notice cancellations and re bookings of patients as necessary onto appropriate lists.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- Good General Education (eg. GCSE

English and Maths A-C) GCSE Level 9-4
- Business Administration NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience in an administrative environment

**Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Experience of dealing with the Public/Customer service experience
- Experience of working with a range of Microsoft Office packages (e.g. Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Experience of using Trust IT systems

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working in a busy environment
- Experience of working in Healthcare

**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:

- Good communication / customer care

skills both written and verbal

demonstrating sympathy and

compassion
- Good keyboard/ IT skills
- Good organisation skills and ability to

multitask
- Good time management skills
- Ability to deal professionally with

enquiries from staff, Patients and Visitors
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to pay attention to detail where

there are predictable interruptions to

the work pattern
- Ability to deal with stressful situations

and sensitive issues
- Work effectively and flexibly as part of a

team to meet the needs of the services
- Confident in dealing with people at all

levels
- Must be able to demonstrate an

understanding of equality and diversity
- Mature open and flexible approach to

work
- Demonstrates care and compassion
- Good inter-personal and communication

skills
- Good organisational skills
- Team Player
- Conscientious
- Demonstrates reliability, motiva



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